A deal for today
Here are the details for this mode. A daily deal uses the standard 104-card Spider rules. Choose one suit, two suits or four suits using the game controls. Daily Challenge on alnucostco.com offers one dated Spider deal for each supported suit count. The displayed challenge date identifies the daily set you are playing.
When a new day begins
The following details apply here. This website uses America/New_York to determine its challenge date. Your device's local date can differ from the challenge date near midnight. The date shown beside the controls is the date used for the current deal. A new calendar day in the challenge timezone produces another set of deals.
The same daily start
Here are the details for this mode. Different suit settings are separate daily challenges. The daily shuffle is not selected from the verified winning-deal collection. The challenge date and selected suit count determine the starting shuffle. Loading the same date and suit count reproduces that starting layout.
Complete eight runs
Keep these points in mind. The run counter records your progress toward clearing all 104 cards. A mixed-suit sequence does not count as a completed run. Clear eight same-suit sequences from King down to Ace to win. A full face-up sequence is collected automatically at the bottom of a column.
Standard Spider movement
Here are the details for this mode. A King needs an empty column because no higher rank can receive it. A group moves together only when its cards descend in one suit. A single exposed card can land on a card exactly one rank higher, regardless of suit. An empty column accepts any legal movable group.
Five more rows
Keep these points in mind. New stock cards can both create useful moves and interrupt existing sequences. The daily table begins with fifty cards in the stock. Each stock deal places one face-up card on all ten columns. Every column must be occupied before you can deal from the stock.
Pause and return
A few details help explain this feature. Returning to the same challenge can restore that saved position. With saving enabled, the browser stores your current daily game for each suit setting. Saved daily positions belong to this browser profile and domain. Loading a new day's challenge replaces the saved daily position for that suit setting.
Continue across midnight
A few details help explain this feature. A date change displays a notice without replacing the cards you are playing. Completing an older open game records the date attached to that game. An open daily game checks periodically for a changed challenge date while the page is visible. The Today's challenge control loads the current day's deal.
Track daily completions
A few details help explain this feature. My Statistics shows daily starts and wins separately for each suit setting. The local completion record is not a public leaderboard or an account-based history. A completed challenge is also recorded by its date and suit count in this browser. Winning the same dated challenge repeatedly counts as one distinct daily completion.
Practice at your pace
Use Winning Deals when you want a starting position with a checked complete solution. Hints offer legal moves without guaranteeing a route to victory. Replay starts the same daily layout again. Undo can reverse a successful card move or a stock deal while history is available.