Spider
Also known as Spider Solitaire and Spider Patience
The harder patience game. Build eight complete runs from king down to ace and each one leaves the board. You can stack any card on one a rank higher regardless of suit — but only a run in a single suit moves as a group, so keeping suits together is what keeps your cards useful.
How it works
- Build eight complete runs from king down to ace. A finished run leaves the board.
- Stack any card onto one a single rank higher — suit does not matter when building.
- Only a run in one suit can be moved as a group, so matching suits is what keeps cards useful.
- Dealing adds one card to every column, so every column must be filled first.
- Deals are shuffled, so not every one can be won. End the deal from the ⋯ menu to take a fresh one.
The same rules are shown inside the app, on the puzzle’s overview screen — one tap opens the difficulty choice and how to play together, so you never have to go looking for them.
Good if you want…
- A card game that puts up a real fight
- One, two or four suits depending on how brave you feel
- A long game rather than a quick one
Spider in Winters Puzzles
Spider is one of 31 puzzles in Winters Puzzles, so it sits alongside Solitaire and everything else in the app rather than being a download of its own. It counts towards your stats and streak like any other puzzle. It is not one of the puzzle types included in Pip’s dailies.
Play Spider.
Free on iPhone and iPad, with 30 other puzzles alongside it. Or play it in your browser — no download, nothing to sign up for.
