Spider Solitaire 4 Suits — Free Online, Hardest Mode

Quick Start: Play in 30 Seconds

1. Goal: Build eight complete King-to-Ace sequences in the same suit. Each completed same-suit run auto-lifts to a foundation.
2. Build down on the tableau: any descending move is legal regardless of suit (red 9 on black 10 is fine). Only same-suit descending runs move as a group.
3. Empty columns: any card or valid descending sequence can fill them.
4. Stock: Click to deal one card to every column. Five deals total, then the stock is empty.
5. Win condition: all eight foundations filled (or eight same-suit sequences cleared) — game complete.

Click Play Spider 4 Suits and you're playing. Drag or tap. Unlimited undo means you can experiment without losing your place.

Why 4-Suit Spider Is the Hard Version

The difficulty between 1-suit, 2-suit, and 4-suit Spider isn't graded — it's a step function. Here's what changes at each level.

In 1-suit Spider, every descending sequence you build can move as a group — there's only one suit, so suit-matching is automatic. In 4-suit, a perfectly-ordered J-10-9-8 of mixed suits moves one card at a time. That single rule shift is responsible for almost all of the difficulty jump. You spend most of a 4-suit game protecting the few same-suit runs you've assembled while moving everything else around them.

Winnable Mode — Stop Losing to Unsolvable Deals

4-suit Spider has the lowest win rate of the three Spider modes, and some of the deals you lose are deals you couldn't have won — some random 4-suit shuffles have no solution. The new-game dropdown now has a Winnable (4 Suits) option that draws from a pool of seeds our solver has proven winnable, each win replayed through the game itself, so the deal you face is guaranteed to have a path home. Lose because of a wrong move; never because the deal was hopeless.

• Where the seeds come from: the same yearly table that powers the daily-deal rotation. Our solver has won every entry end-to-end, and each win is replayed through the game itself.
• Random vs. winnable: the plain 4 Suits button shuffles freely. The Winnable (4 Suits) button always returns a seed from the verified pool.
• It does not make the game easy: these are still 4-suit deals. The lift from "all deals" to "winnable deals only" raises your effective ceiling but you still need same-suit-run discipline to find the solution.
• Best for practice sessions: when you want to learn from your losses, knowing the deal was solvable is more useful than wondering whether you were doomed from move one. Use winnable mode for drills; use the random shuffle when you want to roll the dice.
• Daily Challenge is already winnable: if you've been playing the Daily (4 Suits) challenge, you've been on the verified pool all along — winnable mode just lets you draw fresh seeds from it whenever you want.

Direct link: play a winnable 4-suit deal.

What's the Best 4-Suit Spider Strategy?

Four tactical points specific to playing all four suits. The general Spider rules (Aces aren't urgent; complete sequences auto-lift; only same-suit runs move as a group) still apply.

Protect every same-suit run you start

A clean same-suit J-10-9-8-7 is worth more than four random card moves. Once you have a fragment, refuse to break it unless the alternative is losing. The auto-lift to the foundation only fires on same-suit completions.

Empty columns are the most valuable resource in the game

An empty column lets you park a same-suit sequence while you re-sort the cards above it. In 4-suit Spider, an empty column often means the difference between winning and stalling. Build toward emptying columns deliberately — even if it means a longer game.

Don't deal from the stock unless you have to

Dealing adds ten new cards across all columns, which often breaks runs you've carefully assembled. Cycle your tableau moves first. Hold the stock as a reset button for when the position is genuinely locked.

Track which suits you've made progress on

With eight foundations and four suits, you're building two of each. If you've cleared one spades run, the second spades run becomes much easier because you've removed thirteen specific cards from the tableau. Pick a suit early and finish it before scattering attention.

How Often Can You Win 4-Suit Spider?

We know of no solver study that gives a figure for how many 4-suit Spider deals can be won. What we can report is how our own players did. In our August 2026 player report, TrySolitaire players won:

• 4-suit: 24.2% of the games they started.
• For reference, 1-suit: 59.4%. 2-suit: 33.0%.

These figures count every game started in August 2026, and a game left unfinished counts as not won. Four suits is the hardest of the three Spider modes, so do not judge yourself by your 1-suit results. Move down to 2-suit for a session if you want a faster win rhythm.

One correction to keep in mind: until 3 October 2026, our 2- and 4-suit games let a run of mixed suits move as one unit, which the standard rules do not allow. The August figures above come from that easier game. The game now follows the standard rule: only a run of one suit moves as a unit, so expect lower win rates in our later reports.

The Three Spider Difficulty Levels

The same engine runs all three. Switch from the new-game menu.

• Spider Solitaire — 2 Suits — the intermediate version. Spades and hearts only. Most of the same-suit-run skill from 4-suit, but easier to win. Best balance of challenge and finish-able sessions.
• Spider Solitaire — 1 Suit — the easy version. All spades. The easiest mode to win. Useful for learning the rhythm of Spider before adding suit constraints. Available via the difficulty menu on the main Spider page.
• Spider Solitaire — All Modes — the difficulty-selector hub if you're not sure which to start with.

Other Solitaire Worth Playing

• Double Klondike — two decks with Klondike's build-down-alternating-color rules. Easier than 4-suit Spider but longer than single-deck Klondike.
• Forty Thieves — two decks, ten columns of four cards each, strict one-card-at-a-time movement. A harder game than Double Klondike for the same reason 4-suit Spider is hard: the move restrictions force long planning.
• Klondike — the seven-column classic. Lighter session, built-in solver in our version.
• FreeCell — single deck, every card face-up. A solver study found almost every deal can be won (Blake & Gent, 2026). The opposite end of the difficulty curve from 4-suit Spider.