Play Black Widow Solitaire Online for Free (No Signup Required)

Move mixed-suit runs freely across two decks and ten piles into eight foundations, for a friendly 90% win rate.

Black Widow Solitaire is Spider with the toughest rule loosened: you can move a run of cards as a group even when the cards aren't all the same suit, as long as they're in the right order. Two decks fill ten tableau piles and feed eight foundations, one for each suit in each deck. The game is simple, with a 90% chance of winning, and your odds of victory come down mostly to skill.

Other games in the Spider family include Spider Solitaire, Tarantula Solitaire, which only loosens the same-suit rule to same-color, and Fred's Spider Solitaire, which keeps the strict same-suit rule.

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How to play Black Widow Solitaire

Layout:

10 tableau piles: Build down in any suit. Cards in sequence down, regardless of suit, can be moved in a group. Any card or legal collection of cards can fill a space. At the start of the game, the top four piles are handed six cards, while the remaining piles are dealt five cards. Only the top card is showing.

Stock: By clicking on the Stock, you can deal one card to each tableau pile. Before you can do this, every tableau pile must have at least one card in it.

Foundation:

There are eight foundation piles.

Single cards are never allowed to be moved to the foundation. Only once you've built a complete sequence on the tableau, thirteen cards in order from ace to king, can you transfer it to the foundation.

The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it.

Tableau:

Ten tableau piles dealt from the two-deck pack: the first four piles hold six cards each and the remaining six piles hold five, with only the top card of each pile dealt face-up.

A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower than the pile's current top card, regardless of suit, so any jack of any suit fits on a queen.

Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card can be played onto any other tableau pile.

Any card can fill an empty slot in the tableau.

Regardless of their suits, groups of cards in succession from high to low may be transferred from one tableau column to another.

Stock:

The stock is made up of leftover cards.

When you click on the stock, a card is dealt to the top of each tableau pile. Before you can deal cards, the tableau piles must be full.