Play Chinese Spider Solitaire Online for Free (No Signup Required)

Four decks, three suits, and no clubs to complete your runs with. Chinese Spider is tougher than the classic, but still winnable about 80% of the time.

Chinese Spider Solitaire strips Spider Solitaire down to three suits (no clubs) spread across four full decks, so every sequence you build has to route around a missing suit's worth of cards. It's tougher than the classic one-suit game, but still winnable about 80% of the time, and how you sequence your moves counts for more than luck.

It plays alongside Spider Solitaire, Big Spider Solitaire, and its close relative Chinese FreeCell Solitaire; Spider One Suit and Spider Two Suits are two other ways to dial the difficulty up or down.

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How to play Chinese Spider Solitaire

Layout:

12 tableau piles: Build down in any suit. Cards in sequence in the same suit can be moved as a group. Any card, or a legal run of cards, can fill an empty slot. At the start of the game, each pile is given 6 cards, with only the top card shown.

Stock: Click the stock to deal one card to each tableau pile. All tableau piles must be full before you can deal.

Foundation:

There are sixteen foundation piles.

Single cards are never allowed to move 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:

The twelve tableau piles are dealt six cards each, with only the top card face-up and the rest face-down.

A card can join a tableau pile if it's one rank lower than the pile's top card, regardless of suit, so the 7 of spades will accept the 6 of spades, the 6 of hearts, or the 6 of diamonds.

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.

A run of cards in the same suit and in order can move together from one tableau pile 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 may deal cards, the tableau piles must be full.