What are the official game rules of spider solitaire?

Answer 1

Unfortunately, there are hundreds of different kinds of solitaire games. If you tell us the name of the particular solitaire game, we could help more. The basic game that you get free on your computer sometimes (not Spider Solitaire, but the older one called Solitaire) is a game where you try to line up all the cards, black on red, in descending order, and eventually move them all to piles (by suit starting with the aces). There are options about whether you want to draw one or three, and difficulties with either choice. With draw three, it is important to see the second and third cards before you go through the pile three times (when the game ends), and with either option it is a major challenge to get access to the cards that are face-down. To do this, you have to move one of the face up cards on the top of the face-down card to another pile (so, a black Jack to a red Queen or a red 4 to a black 5 for instance). Hope that was the one you were asking about, but if not, check for rules specific to the name online, or ask another question here giving more of a description.

Answer 2

Spider Solitaire Rules

Object of the game: To create in the tableau 8 suites of 13 cards in descending suit sequence from King to Ace.

Foundations

• The foundations are not built directly.
• The 10 piles are tableau and foundations at the same time and all building is on the tableau.
• When a playable sequence (an entire suite of 13 cards) becomes exposed it is automatically moved to a foundation.
• The game is won if all 8 sequences are discarded (when you discard the whole deck in 8 sequences and nothing is on the tableau).

Tableau (10 columns)

• Build down regardless of suit (for example, a 5 of spades can be played on every 6).
• The top card of each pile is available for play on another tableau pile.
• Cards of the same suit and in descending sequence may be moved as a unit to another pile (groups of cards not of the same suit cannot be moved).
• Nothing can be placed on an Ace (a King cannot move, except to a blank space).
• Spaces may be filled with any available card or packed sequence.

Stock

• Click once on the stock to deal a new row of cards to the tableau.
• There is no redeal.

Answer 3

In solitare, the goal is to make a pile of each suit from Ace through to King in order. Cards can be placed on top of each other in the columns in descending order and alternating colour regardless of suit. For example, a red 6 goes on a black 7. There is a draw pile that can also be used to pull cards from. One a card is moved it its top pile (starting with the ace and working up) it cannot be moved down again. Only Kings can be moved to open column spaces. Once all cards are arranged in the 4 top piles you've won!

Answer 4

In Free Cell solitaire, one may only move a single card at a time. The object is to move all cards to the Home Cells in ascending order, from Ace to King, by suit. The Free Cells are cells where one may move any card in order to free the card beneath it. Full rules for Free Cell solitaire can be found at Solitaire City or Solitaire Central.