   right|thumb|400px|one initial layout in the game of spider. spider is a type of patience game. it is one of the more popular two-deck solitaire games. ==the game== the main purpose of the game is to remove all cards from the table, assembling them in the tableau before removing them. initially, 54 cards are dealt to the tableau in ten piles, face down except for the top cards. the tableau piles build down by rank, and in-suit sequences can be moved together. the 50 remaining cards can be dealt to the tableau ten at a time when none of the piles are empty. ==variants== * gigantic spider: four decks * relaxed spider: does not require all spaces to be filled before redealing * spiderette: only one pack, klondike layout; see below * spiderwort: three decks * will o' the wisp is another solitaire card game which was invented by geoffrey mott-smith and is played the same way as spiderette. the exception is that on the onset, twenty-one cards are dealt into seven columns of three with only the top card of each column face-up. ==software implementations== the most common software version of spider is the one included in the 7, vista, me and xp versions of microsoft windows, spider solitaire.  spider solitaire was introduced in the microsoft plus! 98 addition pack for windows 98.  on unix operating systems, an early version was developed around 1989 at sun microsystems. a version of spider solitaire typically comes bundled with both the kde and gnome desktop environments on other unix-like operating systems such as linux and bsd, under the names kpatience and aisleriot solitaire, respectively. versions for macintosh and most other operating systems are also available. the windows version offers three levels of difficulty, with one, two, or four suits. these play modes are equivalent to disregarding suit difference, either within the colors or altogether, and thus can be simulated in the physical card game, though the computer version a
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