Yes but you have to be skilled to win all of the time.

I think the 'Four Suits' game is impossible to win, isn't it?..... Has anyone won a '4 Suits' game? JamesD ;-)

You can not win all "4 suit" spider solitaire games, but you can increase you chances using some strategy. You can find useful spider solitaire strategy tips here: http://www.spider-solitaire-download.com/strategy.html

Actually I played about 200 games in one suit (spade) and my win rate is 67% as a statistical measure. I'm good at it too.

I would say no. I let the hint feature pick all my moves for two games and still lost.

I don't think so. I've lost a few, and I'm pretty good at it. But I only play the one suit games.

Yes they can all be won if you notice all the games are numbered the people who created the game made the games beatable if you lose then restart the same game till you win that what i did and i have never not been able to beat a game it may take a while but its possiable

For the record: I am very good at spider solitaire. All one suit games can be beat. I have never lost. I thought all two suit games could be one until tonight. I have played this one and went through every possible combination of moves. No matter what you do you end up in the last deal with only 2 moves and no suits finished. So I would say some intermediate games can not be beat. I have played many four suit games and find them very difficult. I would venture to say that a lot of them are unbeatable. If anyone thinks other wise I would like to see them prove it.

I have yet to lose a 4-suit game, but would be interested to know whether one can prove that all four suit games are winnable

After a brief rocky beginning, I've won every "4-suite" game I've started. The running total now must be near a couple of dozen consecutive wins. Some are easy, some are excruciatingly difficult. BTW: I found this site while looking for an answer to the question of whether or not there are any 4-suite games which are NOT winnable.

Yes and No, at least for the four suit games. If the cards were truly randomly dealt, there would be games that cannot be won, such as where the last deal resulted in no possible moves, or where an intermediate deal (or the initial position) dealt cards all of which had the cards that they could go onto buried. (e.g. the initial position is all 6's 8's and 10's, while all the 7's, 9's and J's are buried.) No matter what subsequent cards came up, you would never be able to move any of the original cards. However, the deals are not actually random. Each game has a number, and that number determines the order of the cards. The computer selects one of games at random from the pool of avaialbe games. It appears that the games that are unwinable were dleiberatley not included in pool of games. There are a couple of known exceptions, which may very well have been ones that slipped by the programmer. So not all the games are truly winnable, but the game is almost always winnable, since the couple of unwinnalbe ones the snuck by will only come up once in every couple of thousand games. Of course, winning each one generally requires very extensive use of the undo function.

All I've found are. http://rapidshare.com/files/219476772/spider.sav.html That's the 'saved' file of the hardest Spider game I've ever encountered. It's also proof that this one can be won, being just two moves away from winning. Stick the file in your Documents folder, then select 'Open Last Saved Game'. 'Start New Game' will let you take a crack at it from the beginning. By the way, this one is an example of where the last row laid down displays no moves. You just have to work around that little problem. :) The rapidshare link ought to work, but I can also email the tiny 1k file if necessary.