SNARK!
@snark.games
I try to revitalize a legacy card game as a computer game.
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※ Web: https://snrk.de/zzota-snark/
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※ The Snark's 150th anniversary: @snark150.bsky.social
※ Snark hunting: @snarkhunt.bsky.social
※ Web: https://snrk.de/zzota-snark/
※ Admin: @goetzkluge.bsky.social
(Post 2/🧵 will be about a description of some cards, probably the "SNARK WARRANTS".)
February 10, 2026 at 9:54 AM
(Post 2/🧵 will be about a description of some cards, probably the "SNARK WARRANTS".)
1/🧵
I'm now digging into the game. As an engineer, I said and heard RTFM often enough, so here we go:
JJ Secker allowed me to put the rules in public domain:
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (black&white, 3MB)
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (color, 48MB)
Images from the manual (20 pages in 18 PDF pages).
I'm now digging into the game. As an engineer, I said and heard RTFM often enough, so here we go:
JJ Secker allowed me to put the rules in public domain:
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (black&white, 3MB)
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (color, 48MB)
Images from the manual (20 pages in 18 PDF pages).
![On July 18th 1874 as [Lewis Carroll] was out walking,
at the surprised age of 42, a thought came into
the mind of Lewis Carroll.
"The Snark was a Boojum you see.
From this final line he created the epic poem
'The Hunting of the Snark.
If you have not read this Agony in Eight Fits
you will not understand the game of Snark!
and you should also be having difficulty with
Life itself round about now.
On October 6th 1985,
111 years + 111 days later,
a thought came into the mind of JJ Secker.
"Your Snark's still a Boojum, LC."
€ He spent a happy hour devising Snark! which
you are now clutching and wondering "Why?"
A decade or so later an artist drew a Snark.
On being informed, somewhat pompously,
that the Snark resembled a Boojum
and a Boojum was an Allegory
a thought came into the mind of Xanna Eve.
"The Snark will be a Boojum, you'll see."
On February 11th of the bicentennial year 2006
following a torrent of laughter and cheers
Zzota Limited WWW.ZZOTA.CO.UK
ominously published the game of Snark!
=== CONTENTS ===
※ CREW DECK
(10 cards)
Depicting accredited Snark Hunters.
※ ANIMAL PACK
(8 cards)
Detailing fauna they will meet.
※ STOCK PILE
(38 cards)
Containing Kit and Marks they will need.
※ GENUINE SNARK WARRANTS
(40 cards)
Which must be amassed.
The backs contain Stirring Verses
to stiffen the sinews at moments of
high peril or low despair.
BEWARE!
※ BOGUS SNARK WARRANTS
have been spotted in circulation.
They are of no use to the Game whatsoever
and should be destroyed on sight.
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February 10, 2026 at 9:28 AM
1/🧵
I'm now digging into the game. As an engineer, I said and heard RTFM often enough, so here we go:
JJ Secker allowed me to put the rules in public domain:
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (black&white, 3MB)
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (color, 48MB)
Images from the manual (20 pages in 18 PDF pages).
I'm now digging into the game. As an engineer, I said and heard RTFM often enough, so here we go:
JJ Secker allowed me to put the rules in public domain:
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (black&white, 3MB)
※ snrk.de/wp-content/u... (color, 48MB)
Images from the manual (20 pages in 18 PDF pages).