Spider Solitaire Four Suits
Added 02/2026
Spider Solitaire Four Suits: The Ultimate Boss Battle of Card Games
By Martin Petroff
If you have mastered the one-suit and two-suit variations and are looking for a genuine challenge, welcome to the big leagues. Spider Solitaire Four Suits is the true, unfiltered, and unapologetically difficult version of the game. Using two full decks of 52 cards across all four suits (Hearts, Diamonds, Clubs, and Spades), this variation boasts a notoriously low win rate.
How to Play
The layout remains the same as the easier variations, but the introduction of all four suits completely changes the risk-and-reward calculus of every single move you make.
The Objective: Your ultimate goal is to assemble eight complete sequences of cards in descending order, from King all the way down to Ace, within the exact same suit. Once a full sequence (for example, a complete set of 13 Spades) is built, it is automatically removed from the board. Clear all 104 cards to achieve victory.
The Setup (The Tableau):
Shuffle two complete, standard 52-card decks together (104 cards total).
Deal the cards into 10 columns across your board.
The first four columns receive 6 cards each (5 dealt face down, 1 dealt face up).
The remaining six columns receive 5 cards each (4 dealt face down, 1 dealt face up).
The remaining 50 cards form your Stockpile in the bottom right corner.
How to Play:
Building the Columns: You can move any face-up card onto another card that is exactly one rank higher.
You are fully allowed to mix the suits (for example, placing a 7 of Spades onto an 8 of Hearts, or a 3 of Clubs onto a 4 of Diamonds). The "Same Suit" Trap: Here is where the game gets brutal. While you can stack mixed suits to uncover hidden cards, you can only move a sequence of cards together if they are the exact same suit and in perfect descending order. A mixed-suit pile becomes dead weight that you cannot drag together.
Untangling the Mess: Because mixed suits lock your cards in place, the core strategy of this game is using empty columns to temporarily store cards while you painstakingly sort your mixed piles back into uniform, same-suit sequences.
Revealing Cards: Whenever you expose a face-down card, immediately flip it over to put it into play.
Empty Columns: If you manage to completely clear a column, you can move any single card or valid same-suit sequence into that empty space. Guard these spaces with your life—they are the key to winning!
The Draw: When you are completely out of moves, click the Stockpile to deal one face-up card to the bottom of every single column (10 cards total).
The Empty Column Block: You cannot draw new cards from the Stockpile if you have any empty columns on the board. You must sacrifice at least one card into every empty slot before a new row can be dealt.