The Senet game must have been most loved among games in ancient Egypt. If we should compare it with anything today we must say that it got similarities with backgammon as ludo.

Two players could participate where each used different shaped pawns on a game board with 30 squares. The squares was lined in 3 rows, each with 10 squares.

If you sat in front of the game with the long side towards you, you started in upper left square and moved left. Then down to the middle row and there from right to left and on the lowest row again from left to right in a snake like path.

The players used dices to get the numbers they should move each time. Well that will say, no dices but long sticks where one side was flat and the other rounded. Each side had a value and you counted the sticks accordingly. There is a game played by children in villages in Upper Egypt where sticks are thrown, and this is most likely remains of the old Senet game.

There are no rules written down for the game from ancient Egypt, but a few reconstructions has been done, one even was in sale as a board game. Quite addictive, so let's hope this reconstruction will come on the market again one day.

Note also the smaller boxes where the sticks and pawns are put in drawers, much as we have "traveller chess" and alike today.

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