How to Play Lady Jane Solitaire

An approachable two-deck game that blends Spider and Klondike mechanics. You build eight foundations in suit while arranging tableau cards in descending same-suit sequences, with one redeal to help you recover.

Setup

1. Shuffle two 52-card decks together and deal a 10-pile tableau, with 1 card in the first pile, 2 in the second, continuing to 10 in the last pile (55 cards total)
2. All cards are face up
3. Set up eight foundation piles for the Aces
4. The remaining 49 cards form the stock

How to play

• Click the stock to deal 3 cards face up to the waste pile
• Build the foundations up from Ace to King in matching suits
• Cards move automatically to the foundations when they can no longer be built on the tableau
• In the tableau, build down one rank at any suit (so a 6 of any suit can go on a 7 of any suit)
• Move multiple cards together as a same-suit descending sequence
• Any card or sequence can go into an empty tableau pile
• Play only the top waste card to foundations or tableau; you have one redeal to help recover

How to win

Objective: Move all 104 cards to the eight foundations, building from Ace to King in each suit.

You win when all eight foundations are complete. You're stuck when the stock is exhausted and no more moves are available.

Tips

• Don't rush to move complete sequences to foundations; keep them in tableau to unblock buried cards
• Use empty tableau piles strategically to access important cards
• During your one redeal, look for patterns in the waste to plan your remaining moves

Play Lady Jane free on Windows

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Related games

More games from the Spider family:

• Applegate — Build complete 13-card same-suit runs in the tableau, then move each finished run to a foundation as a group.
• Brown Recluse — A two-deck Spider variant that deals just one card to each of 10 tableau piles, then feeds the rest through a stock and waste pile.
• Double Jane — This massive four-deck game spreads 208 cards across 16 foundations and a rising, all-face-up tableau.
• Fair Maids — Build descending sequences in the tableau one rank at a time in any suit, then move complete 13-card runs to the foundations.
• Fred's Spider — A two-deck Spider variant where every tableau card is dealt face up and cards may be sent to the foundations as they become ready, making it more forgiving than classic Spider.