Spider Solitaire in Windows 7 | |
Developer(s) | Microsoft |
Initial release | June 25, 1998 |
Operating system | Microsoft Windows |
Successor | Microsoft Solitaire Collection |
The game is called spider solitaire due to the relationship between spiders having eights legs, and the eight foundation piles that need to be completed in order to win the game. While the current version originates from 1949, the first mention of Spider comes Games Digest published in 1937.