Play Spider Solitaire online — free, instant Runs natively — no emulator
Spider Solitaire, playable right now — no download, no sign-up, nothing to install. Two full decks across ten columns, and a difficulty you choose: one suit to learn, two for a real game, four when you want to suffer. Complete a king-to-ace run in one suit and it leaves the table.
Your game saves itself — close the tab and open this page again to pick up exactly where you left off.
Controls — what does what
| Action | How |
|---|---|
| Move a card | Drag it, on mouse or touch. Legal drop targets highlight as you go. |
| Move a run | Drag from the top of a same-suit sequence — only matching suits travel together. |
| Quick move | Tap a card and it goes to the best column that accepts it. |
| Deal a new row | Click the stock in the top-left. Every column must be non-empty first. |
| Undo | Undo steps back through every move, as far as you like. |
Looking for the Microsoft version? spider.exe is proprietary Windows software, so we can't host it — but our Spider Solitaire guide covers running your own copy in the browser, and this game plays by the same rules.
How to play Spider Solitaire
Two decks — 104 cards — are dealt across ten columns, with only the top card of each turned up. You're building descending runs from king down to ace. Complete one in a single suit and it's removed from the table. Clear all eight and you've won.
The rule that defines Spider
You can place any card on a card one rank higher, whatever the suit — a red 7 goes on a black 8 quite happily. But only a same-suit run moves as a group. Mixed sequences are legal to build and painful to unpick, which is the whole tension of the game.
Suits and difficulty
- One suit — every card is a spade. Winnable most of the time; the right place to learn the shape of the game.
- Two suits — the version most people settle on. Demanding but fair.
- Four suits — the full game. Expect to lose more often than you win.
The stock
Fifty cards are held back as five deals of ten. Clicking the stock lands one card on every column at once — which will bury tidy work under a random card, so deal only when you're genuinely stuck. The game won't deal onto an empty column, exactly as the original refuses.
Strategy that actually helps
- Empty a column and guard it. An empty column is the only place you can park anything, and it's what makes untangling mixed runs possible.
- Prefer same-suit builds. A red 7 on a black 8 works now and blocks you later. Take the same-suit option whenever there is one.
- Turn face-down cards first. Information beats tidiness — a move that flips a hidden card is nearly always the better one.
- Empty the shallowest column. Fewer buried cards means fewer moves to clear it.
- Do your work before dealing. Every stock deal buries ten cards. Exhaust your real moves first.
Frequently asked questions
Is this Microsoft Spider Solitaire?
No. Microsoft's spider.exe is proprietary Windows software and we can't legally host it. This is an original implementation of the same game, written for ExeBrowser and free to play, with the same one-, two- and four-suit modes. For the Microsoft build itself, see our Spider Solitaire guide.
How many suits should I play?
One suit to learn — most deals go out. Two suits is the version most players settle on, hard enough to be interesting without being punishing. Four suits is the full game, and losing is normal.
Why can I place a card but not move it back?
Any card can go on a card one rank higher regardless of suit, but only a same-suit run travels as a unit. Building a mixed sequence is legal and often necessary, and unpicking it later is the real difficulty of Spider.
Why won’t it deal a new row?
Because a column is empty. The original refuses too — dealing onto an empty column would bury the one space that makes the endgame possible. Fill it first, then deal.
Do I need to download or sign up for anything?
No. The game runs directly in your browser as plain JavaScript — no emulator, no download, no account, and nothing is uploaded.
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