Top left pile. Deck placed here after dealing onto Tableau.
Clicking deals one card face up to every pile.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Foundation</entry>
<entry>
Top eight piles. Only used to hold sequences of cards going down from King
down to Ace once completed.
</entry>
</row>
<row>
<entry>Tableau</entry>
<entry>
Ten piles. Four piles (piles 1, 4, 7, and 10) get dealt 5
cards down and one card up while rest of the piles get dealt 4 cards
down and one card up. Cards can be built down regardless of suit.
Sequences of cards in the same suit can be moved as a unit. Empty piles
can be filled with any card or movable unit.
</entry>
</row>
</tbody>
</tgroup>
</informaltable>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Goal</title>
<para>
To have eight sequences of cards going down from King
down to Ace in the foundation.
</para>
<para>
If you want an extremely difficult challenge, do not move completed
sequences of cards to a foundation.
You can also win by leaving the same eight sequences in the tableau.
This is harder because there are fewer empty piles available. In fact,
it is nearly impossible.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Rules</title>
<para>
Build down regardless of suit. Sequences of cards in the same suit can
be moved as a unit. Empty piles can be filled with any card or legal
sequence.
</para>
<para>
Clicking on the Stock pile at any time deals a card face up to every
pile. However, all piles must be non-empty. If an empty pile exists,
an error message will appear.
</para>
<para>
A sequence of cards going down from King down to Ace can be moved to a foundation pile. Once
there, these cards are no longer in play.
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Options</title>
<para>
There are three possible types of deck. Each deck has 104 cards.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry><term>One Suit</term>
<listitem>
<para>The deck is an octuple deck of Spades only. This is the simplest of the spider decks and a good way to learn the basics.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Two Suits</term>
<listitem>
<para>The deck is a quadruple deck of Hearts and Spades only. There are four complete sequences of cards for each suit. This is not quite as diabolical as the standard four suit spider deck.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term>Four Suits</term>
<listitem>
<para>The deck is a standard double deck. There are two complete sequences of cards for each suit. This is the standard Spider deck. It is also the most difficult.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
<para>Many traditional implementations of Spider do not use a foundation
and simply remove completed sequences of cards. This has no impact upon game
play.</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Scoring</title>
<para>
For every sequence in suit, points given is (length of sequence - 1).
</para>
<para>
Maximum possible score: 96
</para>
</sect2>
<sect2><title>Strategy</title>
<para>
If at first you don't succeed, don't become addicted. Build in suit
whenever possible, but expose as many cards as you can.
