Spider Solitaire Cards and Playing Field. Spider traditionally uses two decks of French-suited playing cards: 104 cards in the suits Spades, Clubs, Hearts, and Diamonds. The 13 ranks King, Queen, Jack, 10 to 2, and Ace occur twice per suit.
A typical Spider layout requires the use of two decks. The Tableau consists of 10 stacks, with 6 cards in the first 4 stacks, with the 6th card face up, and 5 cards in the remaining 6 stacks, with the 5th card face up.