About this site

Spider Solitaires is a small site of free Spider-family solitaire games that you play in your browser. Tim runs it. He is a developer who builds free game and tool sites, and you can see his other projects at timmyships.com.

How the games work

Every game runs in your web browser on a phone, tablet or computer. You don’t download anything and you don’t sign up. Your settings and stats are saved in your browser on your own device, so they stay put when you come back on the same browser.

Each game has unlimited undo, hints and auto-complete. You can also play the daily deal, which gives everyone the same cards for one UTC day, or share a numbered deal with a friend by sending the link.

Where the rules come from

Many solitaire games go by more than one name, and the rules shift a little from book to book. To keep things consistent, the rules here follow the game pages at Pretty Good Solitaire (Goodsol) first. Where those pages leave a gap, the next source is Wikipedia. Each game page names the source it follows, so you can check it yourself.

The full list of games is on the Spider solitaire games page.

How scoring works

The games here use the Microsoft-style score. You start with 500 points. Each move costs 1 point, each undo costs 1, and each finished run adds 100. Dealing from the stock costs nothing. The scoring guide explains the details.

Found a mistake?

If a rule looks wrong, a game misbehaves, or you have an idea for the site, email info@spidersolitaires.com. Say which game you were playing and, if you can, the deal number. A deal number makes a problem much easier to find.