
Once a player has made all the moves possible with the current card layout, the player draws a new row of cards from one of the piles of ten in the right lower hand corner by clicking on the cards. Once a complete sequence is achieved the cards are removed from the table and 100 points are added to the score. Each final sequence must be all of the same suit.

The object of the game is to uncover all the hidden cards and by moving cards from one column to another to place cards in sequential order from King to Ace using the fewest moves. Other cards can be placed on it, and it can be moved to other cards in a sequence or to an empty column. Moving the top card in a column allows the topmost hidden card to be turned over. For example, a six and seven of hearts may be moved to an eight of any suit, but a six of hearts and seven of clubs cannot be moved together.

However, a sequence of cards can only be moved if they are all of the same suit in numerical descending order. For example, a six of hearts may be moved to a seven of any suit. In the horizontal columns a card may be moved to any other card in the column as long as it is in descending numerical sequence. The remaining fifty cards are laid out in the lower right hand corner in five piles of ten with no cards showing. Fifty-four of the cards are laid out horizontally in ten columns with only the top card showing. The game is played with two decks of cards for a total of 104 cards. Windows 10 has the Microsoft Solitaire Collection app updated and bundled with the OS. Finally, Windows 8 has another updated version available in the Windows Store as part of Microsoft Solitaire Collection but not bundled with the operating system. Windows Vista again saw a new version, which was mainly unchanged in Windows 7. Spider Solitaire was not included in Windows 2000, but was added to Windows ME and later on Windows XP the game gained popularity subsequent to its inclusion in the latter.

The game was first included as part of Windows 98's Microsoft Plus! package and has been since featured on most subsequent versions of Windows.

As of 2005, it was the most played game on Windows PCs, surpassing the shorter and less challenging Klondike-based Windows Solitaire. Spider Solitaire, also known as Microsoft Spider Solitaire ( Spider in the About box in some versions), is a solitaire card game that is included in Microsoft Windows. Microsoft Solitaire Collection on Windows 10, in Spider mode
