[working title: Noah’s Ark] Sometime around 2018 I became interested in creating a list of all the “iconic” animals–those who pop up over and over from the Western and Chinese zodiacs to folk tales, fables, religious texts, idioms, and just-so stories. Zodiac the game (which comes from the Greek for “circle of animals”) organizes 42 animals into 7 environments or zones. Each has a card with special abilities related to their nature. Players move around the board, play and collect cards, and try to build a set of animals in one environment to win.