Spider Solitaire 4-Suit — play free online

Four-suit Spider uses all four suits: spades, hearts, diamonds, clubs. The layout is identical to the other Spider variants — ten columns, 104 cards, eight sequences to complete — but with four suits in play, the game is much harder.

Most piles will be mixed-suit. Almost every move has a cost. This is the version serious Spider players work toward.

How to play

The layout

Four columns of six cards, six columns of five. Only the top card starts face-up. Fifty cards in the stock, dealt ten at a time across five deals.

The goal

Eight complete same-suit runs from King to Ace. Each one clears off the table when finished. Complete all eight to win.

Moving cards

Any face-up card can land on a card one rank higher, regardless of suit. The rule that defines this variant: you can only move a group of cards together if they form a same-suit descending sequence. With four suits, such sequences are rare. Most of your work involves moving individual cards, carefully, to create space for the sequences you actually need.

Dealing from the stock

Click the stock to deal one card to each column. No empty columns allowed before dealing. Five deals total.

Tips

Plan around sequences, not just placements. In four-suit, a legal placement that mixes suits is often a move you'll regret. Think about which suit sequences you're working toward and build around them.

Empty columns are extremely valuable. Getting one open early gives you the flexibility to reorganise. Guard them carefully — don't fill an empty column without a specific plan for it.

Undo freely. Four-suit Spider often requires backtracking. Committing to a sequence of moves and then undoing several steps is normal play, not a failure.

Be conservative with the stock. Each deal makes the table busier. If things are already tangled, adding ten more cards rarely helps. Untangle first.

The hint system helps with same-suit opportunities you might have missed.

About the 4-suit version

This is the hardest Spider variant. One-suit Spider uses only spades and is the right starting point. Two-suit Spider adds hearts and is the middle difficulty. Four suits is the full game as Spider was originally designed to be played — most deals are winnable, but only with careful planning throughout.