#MICROSOFT SPIDER SOLITAIRE WINDOWS#

When a player wins the game, stacks of cards typically spread, fall or bounce across and down the screen.Īfter the Microsoft Solitaire Collection loads, a player receives access to all five versions of solitaire and other features. In Spider Solitaire, they must try to clear the table and create sequential suit piles by using two 52-card decks. In the Pyramid and Tripeaks games, the player must try to clear cards arranged in the shape of a pyramid or peaks, respectively, from the table. While trying to find cards to use, they must build vertical stacks on the main table in reverse sequential order or down (K, Q, J, 10. In all versions, the primary goal is move the red and black cards of different suits spread out non-sequentially on the tabletop into piles by suit using different tactics.įor example, in the Klondike and FreeCell versions, a player must place the mixed up cards into sequential piles built up from the lowest cards, Aces, to highest ones, Kings, by suit (A, 2, 3, 4, 5. New players typically start with Klondike since it's the version most commonly thought of as solitaire and provides the best experiential opportunity for them to learn about sequential card order and the club, diamond, heart and spade suits in a standard 52-card deck. On this page, players receive access to the Microsoft Solitaire Collection, which includes the Klondike, Spider, FreeCell, Pyramid and TriPeaks versions.

#MICROSOFT SPIDER SOLITAIRE WINDOWS#

Since the release of Microsoft Windows 3.0 in 1990, every edition of the Windows OS has included one or more versions of the tabletop card game known as solitaire in electronic form.

Microsoft Spider Solitaire