How to play Spider

The goal

The layout

• Two decks (104 cards) are dealt into ten columns. Only the top card of each column is face up.
• The stock (top right) holds five more deals of ten cards. Finished runs collect at the top left.

Moving cards

• Any card can go on a card one rank higher, whatever its suit: a 6 on any 7.
• You can only pick up several cards together if they run down in order and are all the same suit.
• Any card or run can go into an empty column.
• When you uncover a face-down card, it turns face up.

Dealing

• Tap the stock to deal one card onto every column.
• You can’t deal while any column is empty. Fill it first.

Difficulty

• 1 suit (all spades) is the easiest. Each extra suit makes it harder: 2 suits, 3 suits (spades, hearts and diamonds), then all 4.
• Choose from New game. Your choice is remembered, and your records are kept separately for each number of suits.

Controls

• Drag a card or run to move it.
• Double-tap a card to move it to the best spot, preferring a card of the same suit.
• Undo takes back moves, deals and clears.

Scoring

• You start with 500. Every move and every deal costs 1 point.
• Each finished King-to-Ace run earns 100.

Questions

Strategy guides