How to Play Senet (Ancient Egyptian Board Game)

Part two of the Senet videos! Let's take a quick look at how to play this ancient board game—including filling in some of the holes for rules/situations for which we don't have records.

00:27 Background / What is Senet?
01:18 Moving across the board
01:45 Tossing (determining the number of moves in a turn)
02:33 Players and pieces
02:36 How to start your turn
02:44 How to move/interact with other pieces
03:00 Blocking
03:40 Explaining the board and the symbols
05:26 Special cases—we've decided on these as we've tried playing the game and settled on certain ways of handling situations. There are rules that are missing (no complete game instructions were left in the tombs of the Pharoahs), so this is our best guess.

Give this a try and tell us how it goes!

If you want to make your own board, check out this quick tutorial:
youtube.com/watch?v=J6EcgCQRJmA

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