How Beetle compares
- Spider Solitaire for the best-known same-tableau two-deck sequence builder.
- Scorpion Solitaire if you want freer movement with stricter same-suit construction.
- Yukon Solitaire for a single-deck tableau game with long group moves.
Spider & Scorpion · The Web
Beetle Solitaire
A two-deck patience similar to Spider. Forty-four cards start face-up across ten columns — six with four cards and four with five. Sixty remain in stock. Build tableau columns downward in rank regardless of suit. Only same-suit sequences may move together as a group. When a complete King-to-Ace sequence of one suit forms atop a column it is removed. Remove all eight suited sequences to win. Deal from the stock when stuck — one card goes to each occupied column.
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Timer00:00
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What is Beetle Solitaire?
Beetle Solitaire is a two-deck Spider-family game with ten tableau columns. Like Spider, it uses same-suit run completion (assemble eight K→A same-suit runs to win) and only same-suit sequences move as units. Individual cards can be placed on any card one rank higher regardless of suit, as in Spider. The two-deck scale and ten columns make Beetle substantially longer than one-deck Spider variants.
Full rules
Two 52-card decks (104 cards). Forty-four cards start face-up in ten tableau columns; sixty remain in stock. A stock deal adds one card to each occupied column, skipping empty columns, so the number dealt can change during play.
Any single card can be placed on any card one rank higher, regardless of suit. Only a same-suit descending sequence can be moved as a unit. When a complete K→A same-suit run is assembled, it is removed. Complete all eight runs to win.
How Beetle differs from Spider
Standard Spider (4-suit): individual cards can only be placed one rank higher regardless of suit (same rule as Beetle), but only same-suit units move. Beetle uses the same rules for both individual placement and group movement as 4-suit Spider. Beetle starts with all 44 tableau cards face-up and deals stock only to occupied columns; those differences change information and the value of empty space.
Compared to Mrs. Mop (all cards face-up, no stock, two decks): Beetle has a stock, but its opening tableau is fully visible. Compared to Three Blind Mice (ten columns, Scorpion-family, one deck): Beetle uses two decks and has stock deals.
Same-suit strategy at two-deck scale
With two copies of each card, Beetle provides more flexibility in suit-run assembly than one-deck variants: if one copy of 7♥ is buried, the second copy may be accessible. However, this also means eight K→A runs must be completed (two per suit), which requires assembling both copies of every rank of every suit into the correct sequences.
Suit contamination (placing a card of one suit on a different-suit card) creates future cleanup work exactly as in Spider. Tracking which suit-run each card belongs to before every placement is the primary discipline.
How Beetle compares
- Spider — same mechanics; two decks; standard ten columns
- Mrs. Mop — two decks; all cards face-up; no stock
- Three Blind Mice — one deck; ten columns; Scorpion-family movement
Related games
Beetle is part of The Web · Spider & Scorpion and is a variant of Spider.
More Spider & Scorpion games
- Spider — Build same-suit sequences to clear the board.
- Mrs. Mop — Two-deck open Spider, all face-up.
- Relaxed Spider — Spider with relaxed redeal rule.
- Simple Simon — Open-information Spider with no stock.
- Spiderette — One-deck Spider with 7-column layout.
- Will O’ the Wisp — Spiderette-style with a 3×7 opening deal.
Also try
- Babette — Two-deck blockade with ascending and descending suit foundations.
- Big Ben — Clock-face foundations building by suit.
- Miss Milligan — Double-deck patience with a weave reserve.