Spider Solitaire Facts by Timothy Sharkey

There are more interesting aspects to spider solitaire besides those nail biting last minute wins.

Spider solitaire can be won quite often

Spider solitaire can usually only be won one out of ten times by the average beginner player. However, more experienced players can win about one out of three games. A near perfect spider player should be able to win about half of the games played. If choose to read the spider solitaire game hints article I wrote your chances of winning can be dramatically increased in a very short period of time.

Take your pick from the spider solitaire menu

Spider solitaire comes in three flavors. The easiest involves allowing sequences to be moved regardless of suit. This game can be won just about every time and is great for beginners and really young players. The second easiest allows moving sequences in opposite color. Beginner players win this version almost half the time. Experts can win this version nearly every time. The hardest only allows moving sequences in suit. This is the official spider solitaire game and the hardest to win. Seasoned spider solitaire players find this the most challenging and enjoyable. Spider solitaire has dozens of other variations as well. Two common variations are allowing free cells to store cards and another is to allow kings to be built on aces. Scorpion and Spiderette are popular spider like games that came out around the same time frame as spider solitaire.

Spider solitaire trivia

Spider solitaire is so named because of the eight sequences corresponding to eight legs of a spider. Spider solitaire comes with later versions of Microsoft Windows and was revived in a big way because of this. Franklin D. Roosevelt liked spider solitaire so much he claimed it as his favorite solitaire game.

Keep playing spider solitaire and may many wins come your way.

About the Author

Timothy Sharkey works for Softgame Company, maker of card games, video poker and puzzles.