The “SNARK!” card game is a price in Snarkapalooza (LCSNA, 2026-03-29).
About the “SNARK! card game:
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.
Regrettably, ZZOTA vanished away in 2017.
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 to offer the game on virtual tabletops.
I am not a game designer. My main focus is on analyzing Henry Holiday’s illustrations to Carroll’s Snark tragicomedy. The virtualization of JJ Seckers and Xanna Chown’s card game will be my contribution to the Snark’s 150th anniversary. I’ll be slow. But I hope that I can finish this little project within 2026.
If you are interested in the game, please follow snark.games on Bluesky.
2026-03-26