Spider Solitaire 4 Suits

Spider solitaire with four suits

This is Spider as it was first played, with two full decks and all four suits, and it is among the hardest solitaire games anyone plays for fun. New to it? Warm up on one suit or two suits before you come back.

The rules in four-suit Spider

Cards go down by rank on any suit: the 7 of Clubs may sit on the 8 of Diamonds.
To lift several cards at once, they must be a sequence in one exact suit. Same colour is not enough; Hearts and Diamonds do not travel together.
Eight suited runs from King to Ace must be completed, two in each suit.
Five deals of ten cards come from the stock. No column may be empty when you deal.

How to win at four suits

Count before you move. A good move here turns a card face up or empties a column; most others only shuffle the problem around.
Off-suit builds are unavoidable, so make them on high cards. A mixed pile sitting on a King hurts far less than one buried on a 5.
An empty column is worth more than a tidy run. Do not fill it until the card you put there lets you do something else.
Late in the game, look through the columns for the thirteen cards of one suit and work out the order in which to collect them.

How hard is 4-suit Spider?

Very. Even experts lose many four-suit deals, and a win can take half an hour. With unlimited undo it is a fair fight, and a win feels earned.

Spider solitaire with four suits

The rules in four-suit Spider

How to win at four suits

How hard is 4-suit Spider?

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