Daily Spider Solitaire

Daily Spider Solitaire with one suit plays 104 spades, 54 dealt into ten columns and 50 in the stock, and everyone gets the same deal today. Because every card is a spade, any run you build from king down to ace lifts off the table by itself, so the game is about turning the 44 face-down cards and keeping columns free, not about sorting suits.

Before it went live, our solver won this deal and the win was replayed move by move, so a way through always exists. Undo has no limit, Hint looks for a winning line from where you stand and shows its next move, and Solvable? tells you how many moves the solver needed. Win it today to start or extend your streak. The calendar keeps every past day, and New deal hands you a random checked deal, Easy, Medium or Hard.

How to play Spider Solitaire

• The goal is to clear the table: build eight runs from king down to ace, each in one suit. A finished run leaves by itself and the card under it turns up.
• The deal puts 54 cards in ten columns, six in each of the first four and five in the rest, with only the top card face up. The other 50 wait in the stock.
• Put any card on a card one rank higher, whatever its suit. Nothing goes on an ace.
• Cards move together only as a run in one suit. A run in mixed suits has to come apart card by card.
• An empty column takes any card or run, not just a king.
• Click the stock to deal one card onto every column, five times in all. You can deal even while a column is empty; the empty column gets a card like the rest.
• Click a card to send it, with the run on top of it, where it fits best, onto the same suit if it can. Or drag it where you want it.
• The footer keeps your time, your moves and the deals left. Your score is moves plus seconds, so lower is better.

One, two or four suits?

Start here if you are new to Spider. The rules are the same at every level; only the deck changes, and with one suit every run you build can be finished. Spider Solitaire is the game that came with Windows, where one suit was the easiest of its three levels.

When winning here feels routine, two suits is the next step: the same table, but now half the cards will not join the other half.

Tips for one suit

• Turn cards before you build. The first four columns hide five cards each, and face-down cards and the stock are the only things in this game you cannot plan around.
• Use an empty column before you deal, not after. A deal puts a card into every column, the empty one included, and the space is gone.
• A king can only move into an empty column, so when a king turns up on top of face-down cards, an empty column is worth more than anything else on the table.