<chapter id="spider">
<chapterinfo><copyright><year>1998</year><holder>Rosanna Yuen</holder></copyright>
<author><firstname>Rosanna</firstname><surname>Yuen</surname></author>
<address><email>rwsy@mit.edu</email></address></chapterinfo>
<title>Spider</title>
<para>written by Jonathan Blandford</para>
<bridgehead>Setup</bridgehead>

<informaltable><tgroup cols="2"><tbody>
<row><entry>Type of Deck</entry><entry>
Double Deck</entry></row>
<row><entry>Stock</entry><entry>
Top left pile.  Deck placed here after dealing onto Tableau.
Clicking deals one card face up to every pile.</entry></row>
<row><entry>Foundation</entry><entry>
Top eight piles.  Not part of "official rules"</entry></row>
<row><entry>Tableau</entry><entry>
Ten piles.  Four piles (piles 1, 4, 7, and 10) get dealt 5
cards down and one card up while rest of the piles get dealt 4 cards
down and one card up.  Cards can be built down regardless of suit.
Sequences of cards in the same suit can be moved as a unit.  Empty piles
can be filled with any card or movable unit.</entry></row>
</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>

<bridgehead>Goal</bridgehead>
<para>
To have eight sequences of cards (two for each suit) going down from King
down to Ace.
</para>
<bridgehead>Rules</bridgehead>
<para>
Build down regardless of suit.  Sequences of cards in the same suit can
be moved as a unit.  Empty piles can be filled with any card or legal
sequence.
</para>
<para>
Clicking on the Stock pile at any time deals a card face up to every
pile.  However, all piles must be non-empty.  If an empty pile exists,
an error message will appear.
</para>
<para>
The Foundation piles are there for your convenience only.  When a
sequence of thirteen cards (from King to Ace in one suit) exists, it can
be moved to an empty Foundation pile.  Once there, these cards are no
longer in play.
</para>
<bridgehead>Options</bridgehead>
<para>None</para>
<bridgehead>Scoring</bridgehead>
<para>
For every sequence in suit, points given is (length of sequence - 1).
</para>
<para>
Maximum possible score: 96
</para>
<bridgehead>Strategy</bridgehead>
<para>
If at first you don't succeed, don't become addicted.  Build in suit
whenever possible, but expose as many cards as you can.
</para>
</chapter>
