SNARK!, created by ZZOTA in 2006, is a card game based on Lewis Carroll’s “The Hunting of the Snark”. The game designer Jeremy Jexon Secker defined the rules in 1985. The beautiful artwork of the cards is by Xanna Eve Chown.
Sadly, ZZOTA vanished away in 2017.
Rules: B&W (3 MB) | color (48 MB)
In 2026 we can celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Snark. That’s a good occasion to revive SNARK! as a virtual card game (aligned with creators of the original card game, who like the idea to offer the game as virtual tabletop game free of charge). In a first step I already started to work on generating the cards. Later I will try out virtual tabletops, where the remote players still have to ensure themselves that the rules of the game are followed. I still don’t know whether after that I will move on to game engines like Godot.
![Some cards of SNARK!
※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker
※ Design (2006): Xanna Eve Chown
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※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker
※ Design (2006): Xanna Eve Chown
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2025-09-19, updated: 2026-02-12
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