Chinese zodiac gameChinese Zodiac Spotter — one of 32 games in Padamz
The twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac march past in a lantern-lit parade. In every round one of them does not belong. Find it before the moon sets, and learn the zodiac wheel as you play.
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Early rounds are about looking: one tile is bigger, tinted, tilted or facing the other way. Then the rules arrive. Every animal has a season, an element, a direction and a Yin or Yang side, and a round may ask you to find the one animal that breaks the rule the others share.
Badges on the tiles show those traits, so you never need to know the zodiac by heart; after a few levels you will anyway. Later rounds hide tiles, fade them, ask for two odd ones, or send the parade round the wheel with one animal marching out of turn. Clearing levels one to twelve adds each animal to your own zodiac wheel. There are 20 levels, a daily parade and an endless mode.
Three things that help
- Check one trait at a time across all the tiles: seasons first, then elements.
- Season and direction go together: spring sits in the east, summer in the south.
- When two are odd, the second one usually breaks a different rule.
Questions
Are the zodiac facts right?
Yes. Seasons, elements, directions and Yin or Yang follow the traditional table of the twelve Earthly Branches, checked animal by animal.
Do I need to know the Chinese zodiac?
No. The badges tell you everything a round needs.
Is it free?
Yes, free with no account, in the browser and in the Padamz app.
Where it sits in Padamz
Padamz is 32 games in one place, free and with no account. The spine is a daily word puzzle in twelve languages — Hindi, Bengali, Telugu, Tamil, Gujarati, Kannada, Marathi, Malayalam, Odia, English, Spanish and Dutch — with one hidden word a day and six tries at it. Chinese Zodiac Spotter is one of the games around it, and none of them are locked: you can play any of them the moment you arrive. There is an Android app and an iPhone app as well, and everything keeps working offline once it has loaded.
Opened from inside Padamz, every round counts on Chinese Zodiac Spotter's weekly leaderboard: pick an avatar once and compete with players everywhere — the board resets each Monday, and last week's top three wear a crown.
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