Spider Solitaire Classic Reviews

I have played this game for years but little by little, the ads are ruining the game. When I started, the ads were a line at the top of the screen and out of the way. They got moved to the bottom of the screen, where I sometimes accidentally opened them up when I went to use the Hint or Undo buttons. Then full screen ads popped up when I restarted a game or started a new game. But at least those were silent and I could X them out right away. Now, the ads that pop up are loud and cannot be closed for about 5 seconds. It is a shock when this very loud ad pops up late at night while I am playing a game before going to sleep and I can’t shut it down for several seconds. My husband has not appreciated being woken up that way and so now I have to keep the sound muted on my iPad all the time, just in case. It is unfortunate that a really great free game is being ruined this way.

I am addicted to spider solitaire. I admit it. That's why I bought SpiderSolitaireClassic, so I could play without interruption from annoying pop ups and ads trying to get me to get other games, etc. So why, all of the sudden, with this latest update, am I getting a pop up at the beginning of every single game I play on my purchased app??? It is very very annoying and that's why my rating went from five stars to two stars!!! Change it please!!!

Is it possible to reset this game to the way it was before this latest update? I don’t like it. The changes that were made were not necessary. Please put it back.

In the past, I enjoyed a quick game of Spider Solitare; however, it seems like the math setting up the game under went a radical change, which means little or no chance of “winning” because of frequent duplicate numbers and the omission of others needed to make a complete run. It has taken the fun out of what used to be a fun game.
I thought the game had made a change in the algorithm because I won twice. Now it is back to three 8’s and three 1’s, making the game impossible to win and not fun.

I paid the asking price to eliminate advertisements from the game. Recently I have been getting a pop up asking me to login to the apple Game Center. This is an advertisement and an annoyance. Please stop the pop up. Microsoft now has advertisements on the same game. Apple has lowered its standard to theirs. I don’t want to go to the Game Center.. I don’t want to be asked to go to the Game Center. I don’t want to have to click through the prompt to get to the game. I love the game, I hate the advert. If not for this I would rate the game 5 stars

Now your menu options are even larger than the ads. The banner with both now takes up too much real estate on the “table.” By enlarging the choices and blending them with the banner space it’s very hard to see the cards. And, after all, that’s what has kept me playing your version of this game for years and years. Now it feels crowded and user-unfriendly, like so many others. Please look to it’s prior iteration to improve. Thank you.

Older versions of SpiderSolitaireClassic worked fine however, updates have become more and more intrusive. Banners are more touchy and it takes longer to get back. Now, they have Addit a bottom bar which takes up significant field space when viewing in landscape mode. You constantly have to scroll your screen up and down to see what cards or at the top or bottom of your pile.

I’ve played this game for a long time and all of a sudden, a few days ago, the ad at the bottom started making the page jump around which makes it hard for me to play. I can’t stand the constant jumping around while trying to concentrate on the cards. Ugh. I will check back every now and then because I love this game, but if this issue isn’t resolved I will download a different version.

Are used to love SpiderSolitaireClassic. The last week it has started playing background music, and there is no way to shut it off. I tried to “report an issue“ and that screen is blank. I will play this sometimes late at night and cannot tolerate noise while I’m playing. All of my settings are set to “sound off” but that doesn’t seem to help.

The game board jumping around is a new problem and making it harder for me to continue with this particular Spider Solitaire. As soon as the cards are below the bottom of the screen, the window moves back up to the top of the cards. It’s sometimes impossible to pull a card down to where you want to place it. The screen just keeps popping back to where it wants to be. I have posted messages twice asking about this but still haven’t gotten an answer. What a shame. This used to be the best Spider Solitaire available.

I enjoy Spider Solitaire and this version plays well. The problem is the hands seem too fake. For instance, often a certain card is not available to play until deep in the game. Like the eight of diamonds. Then the next game it may be the three of spades. You learn to anticipate this which makes it frustrating because you can’t complete your rows due to the ever changing missing card. Also, on the initial deal, you can predict almost with certainty that if you have to move a queen of diamonds to a king of spades, the card you expose will be the king of diamonds that you needed. It simply doesn’t seem random.

This used to be my favorite game, which I've played for years. Now they have allowed pop up ads which cause the game to crash. I didn't mind having a small ad window up in the corner of the screen because this is a free game. But when your whole screen is hijacked, and you have to wait while the ad loads, and then the whole thing crashes - or if you're lucky enough for the ad to load and find where to close it (that can be a game in itself!) and return to the game, the motion of the cards is jerky and slow. Not good!

When it was updated the new landscape view reduced the number of cards you can see vertically because the menu options take up so much space on the bottom of the screen. If I try to use the portrait view, the cards are too small to see well on my phone. I’ve just stopped playing it.

I love this game and play it all the time but now I can’t start a game without an ad and, what’s worse, now these ads have sound that not only startles but is impossible to turn off until the ad is finished. I realize you have to pay for SpiderSolitaireClassic somehow but please go back to the silent ads. Also why you think I would be interested in baby diapers when I am nearing retirement is a mystery to me.

I have always enjoyed a good game of solitaire. But I hate ads. Now I know that apps need ads to keep their games free and I’m OK with that. But I HATE ads that include loud sounds (like the current car dealership ad). Solitaire is, to some, a peaceful game. However, when a loud pop-up ad jumps in that you can’t “X” out of...very frustrating!!

I have to have my daily fix. I'm learning to see early that a game will be hopeless and I can start a new one. I moved to an iPhone XR. Unfortunately the controls are too low on the screen and if I don’t touch them in just the right place they don’t work and the screen jiggles. Can you move them up off the bottom a little?

I bought it long ago and play all the time, but I need the clock.
When it went away some time ago, l asked for it back and you put a clock back. In the newest version you moved the clock and made it larger.. nice, but when you when you switch to another app then come back the clock shows the time that you switched so it’s no longer the right time, the only way the get the right time is to close the game and restart it, most inconvenient. Can you fix it?
Thanks Bob

I hated the loud pop up ads but now there are X rated ads being shown.
I have played this game for years and loved it but now I will delete it because I am afraid my grandchildren will see these inappropriate ads.
From reading other reviews you are driving a lot of people away.

Love playing..... Keeps my brain active while providing stimulating engagement! It is a wonderful game that calms and soothes as it challenges the player. I would like to see less advertisements as I am sure they interest just a limited number of the users and aggravate the other users.

The only reason that I dropped a star was because I remember when I first started, the games were numbered so I could go back and play a game that I couldn’t get out...I would love to be able to do that again. Thanks for the fun.

I love this game and the interface is really nice on an iPad. The ads seem to be tailored since I get ads for things that mildly interest me. The ads appear between games so there is a predictability and now that I have silenced them, their appearance doesn’t bother me. Before silencing them they were so loud they would scare the crap out of you.