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Lewis Carroll, polishing a camera lens.

Perhaps interesting to coin makers: Henry Holiday's depiction of the Baker's Uncle in Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark" has no copyright protection.

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https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/texts/Carroll_AAiW_TtLG_1st_GASL_OCR.pdf Lewis Carroll ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. «QUADRILLE. [page] 155 [...] we don’t want you with us!’” “They were obliged to have him with them,” the Mock Turtle said: “no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.” “Wouldn’t it really?” said Alice in a tone of great surprise. “Of course not,’ said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise ?’” “Don’t you mean ‘purpose?’” said Alice. “I mean what I say,” the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.” “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” “Explain all that,” said the Mock Turtle. “No, no! the adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.” [...]»

By Lewis Carroll.
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https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/texts/Carroll_AAiW_TtLG_1st_GASL_OCR.pdf Lewis Carroll ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND. «QUADRILLE. [page] 155 [...] we don’t want you with us!’” “They were obliged to have him with them,” the Mock Turtle said: “no wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise.” “Wouldn’t it really?” said Alice in a tone of great surprise. “Of course not,’ said the Mock Turtle: “why, if a fish came to me, and told me he was going a journey, I should say ‘With what porpoise ?’” “Don’t you mean ‘purpose?’” said Alice. “I mean what I say,” the Mock Turtle replied in an offended tone. And the Gryphon added “Come, let’s hear some of your adventures.” “I could tell you my adventures—beginning from this morning,” said Alice a little timidly: “but it’s no use going back to yesterday, because I was a different person then.” “Explain all that,” said the Mock Turtle. “No, no! the adventures first,” said the Gryphon in an impatient tone: “explanations take such a dreadful time.” [...]»

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Already the posted quote (“I can’t go…”) is wrong. WARNING: Better check Carroll quotes with @quoteinvestigator.com before you get them tattooed on your skin.

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«The Cat only grinned when it saw Alice. It looked good-natured, she thought: still it had very long claws and a great many teeth, so she felt that it ought to be treated with respect. ‘Cheshire Puss,’ she began, rather timidly, as she did not at all know whether it would like the name: however, it only grinned a little wider. ‘Come, it’s pleased so far,’ thought Alice, and she went on. ‘Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?’ ‘That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,’ said the Cat. ‘I don’t much care where—’ said Alice. ‘Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,’ said the Cat. ‘—so long as I get somewhere,’ Alice added as an explanation. ‘Oh, you’re sure to do that,’ said the Cat, ‘if you only walk long enough.’» http://snrk.de/Gutenberg/Alices_Adventures_in_Wonderland.htm#CheshireCat

Yes. Speculated.

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On occasion of the 150th anniversary of "The Hunting of the Snark" I want to virtualize (with the maker's consent) the card game SNARK!, but I am not a game designer. I decided to use PlayingCards.io to generate the cards (snrk.de/the-snark-ru...). Would that task be easier with VirtualTabletop.io?

From your post I learned about Affinity. Are there any caveats? So far I planned to use GIMP for my SNARK! project.

(I am neither a gamer nor a game developper. But SNARK! could be a means to make "The Hunting of the Snark" more popular. In 2026, Carroll's tragicomedy has its 150th anniversary.)

Licenses for the SNARK! game:
※ Rules: CC-BY-SA 4.0 by Jeremy Jexon Secker
※ Artwork: CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 by Xanna Eve Chown

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Even though an “invalid handle” is indicated, the handle @ezgra.net works well. Seems to be a BlueSky issue.

Rules of JJ Secker and Xanna Eve Chown's SNARK! card game. ※ 10 MB PDF file: https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SNARKrules.pdf ※ Text: https://snrk.de/the-snark-rules/ Keywords: TheHuntingOfTheSnark | games | videogames | computergames | cardgames | game | videogame | computergame | cardgame | gamedesign | underdevelopment | The Hunting of the Snark | Lewis Carroll | card games | virtual cards | virtual tabletop | game rules | gamerules

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I rescanned the rules of the SNARK! card game.
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=== 40 warrant cards === Front (of all cards): ※ "SNARK WARRANT" stamped "GENUINE" ※ A number XLII ※ Signature of the Bellmanager ※ Number or the stanza on the back Back: One stanza from "The Hunting of the Snark" per card. Selected stanzas: 1.1-1.8, 1.11-1.13, 1.15 2.1, 2.2, 2.4, 2.6, 2.15-2.21, 3.6, 3.7, 3.10, 4.9, 4.10, 5.1 (equal to 6.1, 7.1, 8.1), 5.6, 5.8, 6.3, 6.16, 7.3, 7.6, 7.7, 8.6-8.9 (In my on-line Snark, for example, https://snrk.de/snarkhunt/#5.01 will lead you to the stanza 5.1.)

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In the SNARK! game are 40 cards with selected stanzas from Lewis Carroll's "The Hunting of the Snark". Each card in this subset of all the cards is a "SNARK WARRANT". There is a red "GENUINE" stamp on each card.

23 cards in the STOCK PILE (38 cards) provide the players with the utensils required for Snark hunting. All cards in the stock pile have the same back. --------------------------- SNARK! ※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker ※ Artwork (2006): Xanna Eve Chown

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23 cards in the STOCK PILE (38 cards) provide the players with the utensils required for Snark hunting. All cards in the stock pile have the same back.

Snarks Have Five Unmistakable Marks: https://snrk.de/snarks-have-five-unmistakable-marks/. 15 cards in the STOCK PILE (38 cards) represent the Snark's marks. All cards in the stock pile have the same back. --------------------------- SNARK! ※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker ※ Artwork (2006): Xanna Eve Chown

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Snarks have five unmistakable marks: snrk.de/snarks-have-....

15 cards in the STOCK PILE (38 cards) represent the Snark's marks. All cards in the stock pile have the same back.

Beware! In the 8 cards of ANIMAL PACK you have two chances to meet the Bandersnatch. The animal that looks to me like Schrödinger's Pig will need some special solution for the virtualization of SNARK!. ------------------------------------- SNARK! ※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker ※ Artwork (2006): Xanna Eve Chown

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Beware! In the 8 cards of ANIMAL PACK you have two chances to meet the Bandersnatch. The animal that looks to me like Schrödinger's Pig will need some special solution for the virtualization of SNARK!.

Front and back of the 42 warrants (including the 2 bogus warrants). ------------------------------------- SNARK! ※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker ※ Artwork (2006): Xanna Eve Chown

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Front and back of the 42 warrants (including the 2 bogus warrants).

Rules of JJ Secker and Xanna Eve Chown's SNARK! card game. ※ 10 MB PDF file: https://snrk.de/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/SNARKrules.pdf ※ Text: https://snrk.de/the-snark-rules/ Keywords: TheHuntingOfTheSnark | games | videogames | computergames | cardgames | game | videogame | computergame | cardgame | gamedesign | underdevelopment | The Hunting of the Snark | Lewis Carroll | card games | virtual cards | virtual tabletop | game rules | gamerules

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I rescanned the rules of the SNARK! card game.
※ 10 MB PDF file: snrk.de/wp-content/u...
※ Text: snrk.de/the-snark-ru...

Ja, aber auf dem PC.

I think it‘s from a movie, not by Lewis Carroll.

Nice quote from the screen writer (Linda Woolverton?) of an Alice movie (2010?). I don‘t think that you‘ll find it in any of Lewis Carroll‘s original writings.

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The Godot Emgine is too much for my first baby steps into game virtualization. I‘ll perhaps start with playingcards.io.

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Some cards of SNARK! ※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker ※ Design (2006): Xanna Eve Chown http://snark.games

Some cards of SNARK!
※ Rules (1985): Jeremy Jexon Secker
※ Artwork (2006): Xanna Eve Chown