Spider
written by Jonathan Blandford, Daniel Werner
Setup
Type of Deck
Triple Deck
Stock
Top left pile. Deck placed here after dealing onto Tableau.
Clicking deals one card face up to every pile.
Foundation
Top twelve piles. Not part of "official rules".
Tableau
Twelve piles. The first six piles get dealt 4
cards down and one card up while rest of the piles get dealt 3 cards
down and one card up. Cards can be built down regardless of suit.
Sequences of cards in the same suit can be moved as a unit. Empty piles
can be filled with any card or movable unit.
Goal
To have twelve sequences of cards (three for each suit) going down from King
down to Ace in the foundation.
If you want an extremely difficult challenge, you can also win by forming the same twelve sequences in the tableau. This is harder because there are fewer empty piles available. In fact, it is nearly impossible.
Rules
Build down regardless of suit. Sequences of cards in the same suit can
be moved as a unit. Empty piles can be filled with any card or legal
sequence.
Clicking on the Stock pile at any time deals a card face up to every
pile. Unlike in other Spider variants, empty piles are allowed at redeals.
A sequence of thirteen cards can be moved to a foundation pile. Once
there, these cards are no longer in play.
Options
None
Scoring
For every sequence in suit, points given is (length of sequence - 1).
Maximum possible score: 144
Strategy
If at first you don't succeed, don't become addicted. Build in suit
whenever possible, but expose as many cards as you can.