How to Play Spider Three Deck Solitaire

This variant scales Spider up to three shuffled decks and twelve tableau piles, giving you a longer haul toward filling twelve suit-ordered foundations. The goal: Remove all 156 cards to the foundations by completing twelve 13-card runs.

Setup

1. Three standard decks shuffle together (156 cards)
2. 12 tableau piles deal with only the top card face up: first 6 piles get 5 cards each (4 face down, 1 face up), remaining 6 piles get 4 cards each (3 face down, 1 face up)
3. Remaining cards form the stock
4. 12 foundation piles wait empty

How to play

• On the tableau, place any card one rank lower than the card below it, any suit
• Move groups of cards together only if they form a sequence in the same suit
• Click the stock at any time to deal one card onto each tableau pile, as long as no pile is empty
• Build complete 13-card sequences on the tableau, then move them to an empty foundation pile yourself
• Manage the larger tableau to expose and organize sequences effectively

How to win

Objective: Remove all 156 cards to the foundations by completing twelve 13-card runs.

You win when all twelve foundation piles are complete with 13-card runs. This extended version is challenging even for experienced players.

Tips

• With more piles and cards, patience in building suit sequences is even more critical
• Focus on exposing face-down cards in the tableau systematically
• Plan moves that open multiple paths rather than committing to single sequences

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Related games

More games from the Spider family:

• Tarantula — A friendlier take on Spider where matching color, not matching suit, is enough to move a sequence together.
• Big Spider — This oversized Spider deals three decks across 13 tableau piles, most cards face down.
• Black Widow — This friendlier take on Spider uses two decks and lets you move tableau sequences even when their suits are mixed.
• Chinese Spider — A three-suit Spider where you build long runs on the tableau and complete sequences go to the foundations.
• Spider — Ten tableau piles let you stack cards downward in rank no matter their suit, but a run only travels as a group when every card in it shares one suit.