Play Mrs Mop Solitaire
Two decks, thirteen columns, no stock. Every card you'll play with is on the table. Deal a free game of Mrs Mop below.
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Mrs Mop is a two-deck Spider relative with no stock. All the cards go into thirteen columns of eight at the start. You build down in any suit, move same-suit runs as a group, and win by clearing all the cards in King-to-Ace runs, each one a single suit.
How the Mrs Mop deal is laid out
Mrs Mop uses 104 cards from two decks. They’re all dealt at once, face up, into 13 columns of eight cards. Nothing is hidden and nothing is held back: there’s no stock and no reserve.
Mrs Mop rules
These rules follow Pretty Good Solitaire’s Mrs Mop page. Pretty Good Solitaire doesn’t say whether the cards are face up, so this site follows Wikipedia’s Mrs. Mop article, which deals every card face up.
- Building. Place a card on any card one rank higher, in any suit.
- Moving. Move a single card, or a run going down in sequence in one suit.
- Empty columns. Fill with any card or legal run.
- Completed runs. When 13 cards in one suit run from King down to Ace, they leave the table.
- No stock. Every card is dealt face up at the start.
- Winning. Clear all 8 runs.
How Mrs Mop differs from Spider
Pretty Good Solitaire calls Mrs Mop a distant relative of Spider. It credits the game to Charles Jewell, who also invented Rouge et Noir.
| Mrs Mop | 2-suit Spider | |
|---|---|---|
| Decks | 2 | 2 |
| Columns | 13 | 10 |
| Opening deal | 8 cards in every column | 6 or 5 cards per column |
| Stock | None | Dealt a row at a time |
| Runs to win | 8 | 8 |
The missing stock changes the whole game. In Spider, a deal can bail you out of a jam by bringing new cards, or bury the run you just built. Mrs Mop has neither. Whatever’s on the table at the start is all you’ll ever have, so a stuck game stays stuck. Every move has to come from planning.
Mrs Mop is also hard to find online, and you can play it here for free.
Mrs Mop strategy
Hunt for a column that can disappear. Your first goal is an empty column. Look for a column where every card already has somewhere to go, the next-higher card in another column. Clearing it opens up the table.
Then make a second space. One empty column lets you split a two-part mixed run. Two let you sort much longer ones. Thirteen columns of eight is a crowded table, and spaces are what turn mixed builds into suit runs.
Prefer same-suit builds. Pretty Good Solitaire’s tip for Mrs Mop is that in-suit sequences are preferred over any other kind. With no stock to shake things up, every off-suit build is a knot you’ll have to untie yourself.
Free the Kings with care. A King can only move to an empty column. With eight Kings in play, it’s easy to spend all your spaces on Kings. Move a King into a space only when it starts a run you can build on right away.
Use undo to test ideas. With no stock, a game of Mrs Mop is a long puzzle. This site has unlimited undo, so you can try a line, see where it goes and back out.
The board above is free in your browser, with hints, auto-complete and numbered deals you can share. For a three-deck game with thirteen columns, try Big Spider. For a one-deck game with no stock, play Simple Simon Solitaire.
Rules source: Pretty Good Solitaire (Goodsol)
Frequently asked questions
What is Mrs Mop Solitaire?
Mrs Mop is a two-deck solitaire game related to Spider. All the cards are dealt into thirteen columns of eight, with no stock. You build down in any suit, move same-suit runs, and clear King-to-Ace runs in one suit. Pretty Good Solitaire credits its invention to Charles Jewell, who also created Rouge et Noir.
Who invented Mrs Mop?
Pretty Good Solitaire credits Mrs Mop to Charles Jewell, the same inventor behind the solitaire game Rouge et Noir. It describes Mrs Mop as a distant relative of Spider. The game shares Spider’s building and run rules but deals both decks at once into thirteen columns, with no stock to deal from later.
Does Mrs Mop have a stock?
No. Both decks are dealt at the start into thirteen columns of eight cards each. You never get new cards during the game, so you can’t count on a deal to rescue a stuck position. Every move has to come from what’s already on the table, which makes Mrs Mop a long planning puzzle.
How do you win Mrs Mop?
Clear every card from the table in King-to-Ace runs, each run all one suit. You build down in any suit, but only same-suit runs move as a group, and only they clear. Empty columns are the key, because they let you break up mixed-suit runs and rebuild them in suit.