Senet c. 3100 BC

How to play Senet

Senet is a game that plays with 2 players. It's a Racing and Dice game where the core of play revolves around Roll / Move. An ancient Egyptian race game on a 30-square grid (three rows of ten) in which two players move pawns according to throw-stick casts toward the final squares. The oldest board game whose existence is archaeologically confirmed, found in Predynastic and First-Dynasty Egyptian burials (c. 3500-3100 BC) and later treated as a talisman for the journey of the dead.

This is an overview of what to expect at the table — not the rulebook. We link to official rules and tutorials rather than reproducing them.