Until the recent addition of the joker option, I would’ve given this game five stars. I’ve played a lot of Spider Solitaire games, and this has been my favorite. But the Joker is ruining this game for me.
One of the things I’ve liked about this game is that you can earn three chances to undo your last move by watching one ad. You could use an “undo” if you made a bad move and were about to lose the game — you could undo it and make a different play that would allow you to keep playing and maybe even win the game.
But now if you make a move that has you stuck, the Joker appears immediately, giving you no chance to use an “undo.” Once the Joker pops up, your only options are to watch an ad to get one Joker card and try to use it to keep playing, or choose “Go to results,” which ends your game.
When they first added the joker, I thought it might be OK, because I assumed that it would function as a wildcard. Unfortunately, it doesn’t. You can use it to make some moves, but it won’t allow you to move a column of cards that has a joker in the middle. So the Joker can only help you in a very limited way, which often will not be enough to allow you to win. That’s why I hate the Joker.