Spider (Solitaire)

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Spider is a solitaire game that is played with 104 cards (two decks of 52 cards each). The display consists of ten columns. The first four columns contain five cards each, the remaining six columns each contain four face-down cards. One card is placed face up for each column. The so-called talon contains the remaining 50 cards, with which ten new cards can be laid out five times during the course of the game.

The aim of the game is the eight possible colorfast to form families in descending order from King to Ace (for example, cross -König to ace of clubs). A complete sequence of cards is removed from the display (immediately after the ace is placed).

Within the display, the cards can be placed on top of one another in descending order regardless of color, for example eight of diamonds on nine of spades. Either individual cards or card sequences of the same color can be moved from one column to another. No further card can be placed on an ace. If there are no more possibilities to place cards within the display, one card is placed from the talon on each of the ten columns. Free columns in the display must be filled with any card or a permitted sequence of cards beforehand. If the talon is used up and no more cards can be placed or moved in the display before the eight families have been formed, the solitaire has failed.

Variations

  • Difficulty level lower
Solitaire difficulty becomes lower when only two suits of cards are used in the game. The probability that the solitaire goes up is further increased if only one card suit is used.
  • Difficulty higher
In the normal and the two-suit version, an ace that does not match this sequence is placed on a real sequence from king to two. This means that there is no true color family, the sequence cannot be removed and the corresponding column is blocked for further play. Solitaire has risen if, for example, in the two-color version, four real sequences of red cards end with a black ace and four real sequences of black cards end with a red ace.
This variant makes sense with a computer version of the solitaire, as a color-fast sequence is automatically taken from the display as soon as the corresponding ace is placed. The player must therefore make sure that he does not place the matching ace, since in this case the solitaire would have failed because of the automatic removal of the sequence.