Spider Solitaire 2 Suits

Spider solitaire with two suits

Two-suit Spider uses 52 Spades and 52 Hearts. It is where most players end up staying: the colours make you think, and keeping suited runs together becomes more important. If you have never played Spider, learn the moves on one-suit Spider first.

What changes with two suits

You may still put a Heart on a Spade, or the other way round, as long as it is one rank lower.
A mixed stack cannot be picked up, though. Only the part at the bottom of a column that is all Spades or all Hearts moves together.
Only a full King-to-Ace run in one colour is taken off the table. You need four of each.
The stock still deals ten cards at a time, and every column must be occupied before you deal.

Two-suit strategy

Treat a red-on-black placement as a loan. It gets a card out of the way now, and you will have to pay to separate the two later.
Given two ways to uncover a card, take the one that keeps colours together.
Before each deal, tidy up: join same-colour pieces so the ten new cards land on clean runs.
Keep one column free for sorting. Park the top half of a mixed stack there, move what was underneath, then bring it back.

How hard is 2-suit Spider?

It is harder than one-suit Spider because mixed runs cannot move as a unit. Use undo freely; trying a line and backing out of it is part of the game. When it starts to feel comfortable, four-suit Spider is waiting.

Spider solitaire with two suits

What changes with two suits

Two-suit strategy

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