Play Spider Three Deck Solitaire Online for Free (No Signup Required)

All 156 cards from three decks fight for the same twelve tableau piles, and untangling three of every card makes this hard Spider variant a true skill test.

Spider Three Deck Solitaire is the classic four-suit Spider stretched across three full decks of cards. All 156 cards are in play: you get twelve tableau piles to work in, a 102-card stock to deal through, and twelve complete runs to assemble before the game is won. Because every suit appears three times, duplicate cards constantly compete for the same spots, and choosing which of three identical 9s to build on becomes a real decision. It's a hard game, and winning comes down mostly to skill rather than luck.

Big Spider Solitaire is the closest relative, with the same three decks spread over a wider tableau, while Chinese Spider Solitaire pushes the deck count even higher. If you'd rather start with the two-deck original, Spider Solitaire is where all of this began.

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How to play Spider Three Deck Solitaire

Layout:

12 tableau piles: Build down regardless of suit. Cards in sequence down in the same suit may be moved as a group. Any card or movable run may fill an empty pile. At the start of the game, the first six piles receive five cards each and the last six receive four cards each. Only the top card is face up.

12 foundation piles: Each pile takes one completed sequence of thirteen cards of the same suit, running from King down to Ace.

Stock: Click to deal one card to every tableau pile. You may not deal while any pile is empty.

Foundation:

There are twelve foundation piles.

Single cards are never allowed to be moved to the foundation. Only once you have built a complete sequence on the tableau, thirteen cards of one suit in order from King down to Ace, can you transfer it to a foundation pile.

The top card of each foundation can be moved back into play if another pile will accept it. You win the game by completing all twelve runs, one for each foundation pile.

Tableau:

There are twelve tableau piles: the first six hold five cards each and the remaining six hold four cards each. The top card of each pile is dealt face-up, while the remaining cards are dealt face-down.

A card can be added to a tableau pile only if it's one rank lower than the pile's current top card, and of any suit, so any 7 fits on an 8.

Cards on the tableau that are not covered by another card can be played onto any other tableau pile. When a face-down card becomes uncovered, it is turned face-up.

Groups of cards in descending sequence may be moved from one tableau pile to another only if they all share the same suit. A mixed-suit stack can never travel as a unit, so building in suit whenever possible pays off later.

Any card or movable same-suit run can fill an empty slot in the tableau.

Stock:

The stock is made up of the 102 leftover cards.

When you click on the stock, one card is dealt face-up to the top of each tableau pile. Before you may deal, none of the tableau piles can be empty, so fill every gap first.