Is it possible to be "too good" at Spider Solitaire?
The initial deal in Spider is 54 cards. Cards can only be removed in runs of 13 (A-K). So it is theoretically possible for that initial deal to allow you to remove four full runs of cards and be left with only 2 cards on the board (13 * 4 = 52).
Here is one initial position where the cards are dealt almost in sequence that would create this scenario:
QD KD AS 2S 6D 7D 8D 9D 0D JD
2D 3D 4D 5D 9C 0C JC QC KC AD
5C 6C 7C 8C QH KH AC 2C 3C 4C
8H 9H 0H JH 2H 3H 4H 5H 6H 7H
JS QS KS AH 5S 6S 7S 8S 9S 0S
AS 2S 3S 4S
I played Microsoft Solitaire Collection today and this exact situation just happened to me. I don't remember what the starting condition was but the chance for that to happen has to be extremely low. I made a screenshot of the situation:
I never had this before.