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<sect1 id="Spider"><!--<sect1info>
		<copyright>
			<year>1998</year>
			<holder>Rosanna Yuen</holder>
		</copyright>
		<author>
			<firstname>Rosanna</firstname>
			<surname>Yuen</surname>
		</author>
		<address><email>rwsy@mit.edu</email></address>
	</sect1info>-->

	<title>Spider</title>

	<para>Written by Jonathan Blandford</para>

	        <sect2><title>Setup</title>


	<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. Only used to hold sequences of cards going down from King down to Ace once completed.</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>

	        </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Goal</title>

	<para>To have eight sequences of cards going down from King down to Ace in the foundation.</para>
	<para>If you want an extremely difficult challenge, do not move completed sequences of cards to a foundation. You can also win by leaving the same eight sequences in the tableau. This is harder because there are fewer empty piles available. In fact, it is nearly impossible.</para>

	        </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Rules</title>

	<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>A sequence of cards going down from King down to Ace can be moved to a foundation pile. Once there, these cards are no longer in play.</para>

	        </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Options</title>

  <para>There are three possible types of deck. Each deck has 104 cards.</para>
  <variablelist>
    <varlistentry><term>One Suit</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>The deck is an octuple deck of Spades only. This is the simplest of the spider decks and a good way to learn the basics.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>    
    <varlistentry><term>Two Suits</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>The deck is a quadruple deck of Hearts and Spades only. There are four complete sequences of cards for each suit. This is not quite as diabolical as the standard four suit spider deck.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
    <varlistentry><term>Four Suits</term>
      <listitem>
        <para>The deck is a standard double deck. There are two complete sequences of cards for each suit. This is the standard Spider deck. It is also the most difficult.</para>
      </listitem>
    </varlistentry>
  </variablelist>
  
  <para>Many traditional implementations of Spider do not use a foundation and simply remove completed sequences of cards. This has no impact upon game play.</para>

          </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Scoring</title>

	<para>For every sequence in suit, points given is (length of sequence − 1).</para>
	<para>Maximum possible score: 96</para>

	        </sect2>
        <sect2><title>Strategy</title>

	<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>
        </sect2>
</sect1>
