Spider Solitaire - Samurai

Classic Spider solitaire, the two-deck patience card game, played at 1, 2 or 4 suits with the samurai warlords of feudal Japan. Build runs from King down to Ace, raise eight banners in every deal, take the daily challenge, then march on into Jorōgumo's Web, Rival Warlord and Field Formations.

A steel field, a single banner. You muster as a samurai recruit with one suit to command, and the drill yard knows no glory: stack the run clean, then stack it again. Earn your first banner and two suits march under you. A rival warlord waits across the field, and in the dark the spider-woman Jorōgumo is weaving. Hold your nerve, and the field is yours.

Spider solitaire at 1, 2 or 4 suits

• Two decks, 104 cards, ten columns. Build eight runs from King to Ace.

• Every finished run flies off the table and raises a banner. Raise all eight to win.

• 1 Suit to learn, 2 Suits for a real fight, 4 Suits for the legend.

• Build down in any suit, but only a run of one suit moves together.

• Out of moves? Deal ten new cards from the stock, one on every column.

Four war banners, four ways to play

• Classic: Spider as it has always been played, with an eighteen-camp campaign.

• Jorōgumo's Web: her silk binds your cards. Cut it with a clean run of four before it spreads.

• Rival Warlord: one board, two armies. Duel Hayate the Reckless, Lord Tokubei the Hoarder or Lady Kagami the Iron Wall, three orders a turn. The first banner, seven of your suit in a row, wins.

• Field Formations: twelve battles of gates to open, rivers to cross and a column to hold.

• Leave a battle or a duel, and it waits exactly where you left it.

Play at your own pace

• Unlimited undo and redo in Classic, even after a run has cleared.

• Drag a run, or tap it to send it where it fits. Auto-finish brings the last cards home.

• Stuck? A hint shows a good move with a ghost card, or tells you to deal from the stock.

The War Banners campaign

• Eighteen camps: six of training on one suit, eight of war on two, four Legend trials on four.

• Three camps on the road ask you to win that day's Daily Duel, a daily spider solitaire challenge.

• Thirteen samurai war paintings change the table as you march.

• Lose a deal and you deal again. The road keeps your place.

The War Chest

• Each rival's court deck: Hayate's Riders, Tokubei's Treasury, Kagami's Iron Wall and Jorōgumo's Court, with painted kings, queens and jacks.

• War banner card backs: Jorōgumo's Silk, Kagami's Iron Mirror, Blood-Moon Banners and more.

• Four painted battlefields: the Blood-Moon Ridge, the Ford at Dawn, Jorōgumo's Lair and the Gate of Ash.

• Win effects of Spider's own: Banner Storm, Blood-Moon Rising, and Jorōgumo's Web spreading gold across the table.

Painted decks and card backs

• Two painted decks from the first deal, Eternal Realms and Twilight Elements, and twelve card backs, among them Four Banners.

• Win three deals or clear the first camp, then pick a Rare war banner back as a gift.

• Climb five ranks from Ashigaru to Daimyo for a battlefield of your choice and three win effects no one can buy.

Fair by design

• Koban is earned by winning, and harder suits pay more. It buys decks, backs, battlefields and win effects.

• Items on sale can also be bought with money, as an optional purchase.

• The Collector's Path, an optional purchase, gathers Spider's own backs, battlefields and victory effects.

• Everything you can buy is cosmetic. No energy and no wait timers.

Play it your way

• Four-colour suits, large or jumbo card numbers and a left-handed layout.

• Reduced motion, an optional timer, and War Honours keeps your records for every mode.

• Plays on phones and tablets. Turn a tablet sideways for a wider field.

A samurai card game for adults

The war paintings are made for grown-ups: battle, blood, the dead on the field and an execution.

A steel field, a single banner. Choose your banner.