Spider Solitaire — 1 Suit

One-suit Spider is Spider with the hard rule switched off, and that is a compliment rather than a criticism. A hundred and four cards, all of them spades, go into ten columns. You still have to build eight complete runs from King down to Ace, you still have five deals from the stock and no more, and an empty column is still the most valuable thing on the table. What you do not have is the rule that makes the other versions bite: in two- and four-suit Spider a run only moves if every card in it shares a suit, and here every card shares a suit, so every run moves.

That changes what the game is about. In four-suit Spider you spend most of your attention on suit discipline — refusing a legal placement because it would leave a run you cannot lift. In one suit there is nothing to refuse. Every legal placement is also a good one, and the whole game becomes a race against the stock: can you turn over the face-down cards faster than the ten deals bury them?

Why start here

Spider is the two-deck solitaire people bounce off. The ten columns look like Klondike, the placement rule sounds like Klondike, and then a run you built carefully turns out to be nailed to the table because a red seven is sitting on a black eight. One suit lets you learn everything else first — how the deal works, why an empty column matters, what a face-down card costs you — without that trap. When you can clear one-suit deals reliably, two suits adds exactly one rule, and you will understand immediately why it matters.

Reading the table

The stock sits at the top left with the fifty undealt cards. The ten columns run across the table, six of them five deep and four of them six deep, with one card face up at the end of each. Anything you can pick up is drawn as a lifted card the moment you touch it; anything that would take a run is marked as a legal destination before you commit. A completed run lifts off the table on its own and the eight foundation slots at the top right fill from left to right as you clear them.

Every move animates and every wrong move says so — a run you cannot place shakes and comes back, so you never wonder whether the table heard you. Undo takes back up to a thousand moves within a deal (a saved deal keeps its last thirty); there is no penalty, because a solitaire game is a puzzle you are allowed to think about out loud.

What the record keeps

The panel under the table keeps your best time, your win streak and how many one-suit deals you have finished on this device. It is a separate record from two-suit and four-suit Spider — a fast one-suit clear and a fast four-suit clear are different achievements and are never mixed. Nothing is sent anywhere, there is no account, and clearing your browser’s site data clears the record.

The table is green felt to start with and the settings button changes it, and because one suit means one thing to read on every card, the large cards at L cost you nothing here: ten columns of spades at L still fit a desktop window.