TITLE: Is it possible to be "too good" at Spider Solitaire?
QUESTION [5 upvotes]: There was a similar question here: Losing at Spider Solitaire However, what I'm asking is different.
The game has a rule that it would not deal the next ten cards, unless there is already a card in everyone of the ten slots. What I'm asking is whether it is theoretically possible that at any time, except the last deal, there might be a situation with less then 10 cards on the table? To me it feels like it should be possible, but it never happened to me, and I couldn't find any mention of it happening to anyone else...

REPLY [2 votes]: 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.