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Most of us associate Solitaire with Klondike, the version of the game that was included with Microsoft Windows for many years.

However, there are over 500 different Solitaire types and variations, and Spider Solitaire is one of our faves. That's why we're ecstatic that developers Neal Taparia and Darshan Somashekar have released Spider Solitaire Challenge for mobile and web.

In case you're unfamiliar with the game, Spider Solitaire is taking two shuffled decks of cards and sorting them into eight clean stacks, all in numerical order.

You're dealt 54 cards in ten heaps at the start of each game, with the top card in each pile facing up. After that, you can deal yourself another ten cards at any time – albeit you can only do so five times because you only have 50 cards left after the original deal.

To play, simply place one card on top of another of the same number in ascending order - 7 on 8, ace on 2, and so on. You can shift the entire stack at once if you have a straight sequence of cards, such as 3,4,5,6,7.