On April 4, 2006, I hit the ultimate game--the Rubik's Cube of Spider Solitaire. In 20 years of play, I have never won a game this difficult. Normally, I would have thrown this game in (4 kings in the first round--YUK!) but I was in the mood for a challenge so I kept going and it paid off.

When I finally won, I couldn't wait to share this game with the world. I found the spider.sav file in the "My Documents" folder, attached it to an email (it's only 700+ bytes), and sent it to my husband's computer. I downloaded it and gave it to him to play. It took him over an hour--and that was just from the last round. He agreed that he never would have played this one, either, and almost didn't believe it could be won, but he finally got it. Here are some screen shots:

Looks pretty good at first

Then it starts to fall apart--4 kings in the first round--YUK!

And keeps getting worse. (The 2nd round turns up 2 more kings.)

I've beaten this game twice, but I couldn't duplicate this next screen exactly the second time. I was still able to get 2 holes and win, but I had to start over several times.

From here it takes me over 100 moves to win. Notice how many piles are still messed up, how many cards are still buried, and that not one suit has been rolled up, yet.