One of the most ancient games discovered is that of the ancient Egyptian game of Senet, the oldest reference to which can be found on a wall painting in the tomb of the Third Dynasty Pharaoh Hesy (BCE. 2650 BC). It's a game that was placed throughout ancient Egyptian society from Pharaohs and kings to commoners and is now thousands of years old and still played. After you've watched this how to play Senet video, why not check out and play our free online version of the game below or check out some of our other traditional African games such as Mancala or Ayo. Some of these games come complete with video guides to teach you how to play them.
To play Senet firstly you throw the sticks and for every stick that lands facing upwards you can make one step around the board. (There are four sticks, if, however none land facing up, you can make five moves.) Cont/...
After the number of moves have been established you can start moving your pieces and each piece can move to an empty square or a square occupied by an opponent piece, in this case the two pieces switch positions. When two pieces of a player are adjacent to each other, those two pieces are safe and cannot be swapped. When 3 pieces are adjacent to each other, the pieces of another player cannot pass through them. The last 5 squares are special squares, a piece is always safe on a safe square and will not be swapped, the fourth last square is the water square, when a piece lands on it, it must start from the beginning again. An exact throw is needed to leave the board.
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