Spiderette

Spiderette is a solitaire card game which uses a deck of 52 playing cards. It is basically a one-deck version of Spider, a popular two-deck solitaire card game. This game should not be confused with Little Spider, which is played differently.

The first 28 cards are dealt the same way as in another popular solitaire game Klondike, i.e. the first column should have one face-up card, the second column should have one face-up card and one face down card at the bottom, and so on.

Cards in the tableau are built down regardless of suit. Only the top cards of each column can be moved; however, a sequence of cards that "are" in suit (such as 9-8-7-6♥) can be moved as one unit. Face-down cards that become exposed are turned face-up and empty column spaces on the tableau are filled by any card. If all possible plays have been made, a new set of seven cards (one for each column) are dealt, provided that each column "must" contain at least one card. After three such deals, and the game becomes stuck, the three left over cards are dealt on the first three columns.

Once a suit sequence of 13 cards from king down to ace is successfully built, it is discarded from the game. The game is won when four such suit sequences were built and discarded this way.

Will o' the Wisp

Will o' the Wisp is another solitaire card game which is invented by Albert Morehead and Geoffrey Mott-Smith and is played the same way as Spiderette. The exception is that on the onset, twenty-one cards are dealt into seven columns of three with only the top card of each column face-up.

"See: solitaire terminology"

External links

* [http://www.bvssolitaire.com/rules/spiderette.htm Spiderette rules]