Brilliant! I'm a medieval reenactor with young kids and we LOVE playing historical board games. I'm off to make us our own Senet board so we can try out your rules. Thanks so much for sharing!
Another ancient game is the royal game of ur. 4500 yrs old !! It is a blast to play and it has variations also. I made one and we just love it as much as senet if not more.
The person commenting that Ra is the last square is wrong. It is Horus. And the second last square is Judges. Minor detail. Here is something more important, and if you look at actual hieroglyphs of people playing, you will agree. The game pieces do not start in alternate positions. The first row of the board is only a holding area for the pieces, normally positioned with five cones and then five spindles. It is the so called 11th square that begins the race to the afterlife.
this is a game which was played in a time of period of 4000 years. The rules were probably modified over time and so the board. The game pieces start in alternate positions as well, check the paintings on the tomb walls of Khety At Beni Hasan or Sennedjem. The game started probably from the first row. In time of later dynasties, the game became more religious meaning and sometimes all the squares of the boards were fully pictured; they put this game in the tombs or painted on the walls, because the person had to win this game in order to overcome the challenges caused by his enemies on the other side....
This game is one of my inspirations for Game Design. I absolutely love it!
That's so awesome! Have you created games before?
Brilliant! I'm a medieval reenactor with young kids and we LOVE playing historical board games. I'm off to make us our own Senet board so we can try out your rules. Thanks so much for sharing!
That's so cool! Tell me how it goes ;)
Another ancient game is the royal game of ur. 4500 yrs old !! It is a blast to play and it has variations also. I made one and we just love it as much as senet if not more.
Awesome! I haven't heard of that one, so I'll definitely look into that. Maybe another video... ;)
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From what I read it seems Twenty Squares was found on the other side of Senet. Basically like Checker and Backgammon or Checkers and Chess.
well done , this is long forgotten amazing game. We never played it when we were young in Egypt :D :D very glad to see this ,, keep it up
Thank you! We definitely love playing this game and introducing it to friends!
@@NotDefined same here ,, love it
This is really good explained!
The last houses are House of Happiness, Water, 3 Judges, 2 Judges, Horus
The person commenting that Ra is the last square is wrong. It is Horus. And the second last square is Judges. Minor detail.
Here is something more important, and if you look at actual hieroglyphs of people playing, you will agree. The game pieces do not start in alternate positions. The first row of the board is only a holding area for the pieces, normally positioned with five cones and then five spindles. It is the so called 11th square that begins the race to the afterlife.
Interesting!
this is a game which was played in a time of period of 4000 years. The rules were probably modified over time and so the board. The game pieces start in alternate positions as well, check the paintings on the tomb walls of Khety At Beni Hasan or Sennedjem. The game started probably from the first row. In time of later dynasties, the game became more religious meaning and sometimes all the squares of the boards were fully pictured; they put this game in the tombs or painted on the walls, because the person had to win this game in order to overcome the challenges caused by his enemies on the other side....
@@pallasathena79 , excellent explanation, very sensible.
The game starts in the first row
I’m making and testing the game actually 😅 to see witch rules fits the game better.
Hi, I am an Ancient Egyptian. I just wanted to let you know that the last one means that you have to go back to the end of the line/snake.
Merci! je cherchais justement les règles !
(Thank you i was looking for the rules)
Thanks for sharing
The first time I've played this was in Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation on PlayStation.
wow complex but sounds fun! I would like to know where Hillary found out about this game?
I'm pretty sure her first exposure to the game was in her famous 6th grade class, where she caught her history-loving bug ;) #AmazingTeacher
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Welcome!
Hello beauties' thank you very much , Greetings from Egypt
Greetings!! So glad to have you!
correction: the sea of choas
it lives inthe land of the demons
These are not exact rules
Nope they're not, we're just doing our best with the resources we have ;) Hope you can enjoy the game, that's the real goal!
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it is the 16th square not 15th count them up
Sorry for any mistakes. It's hard to be perfect on camera ;)
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Technically no...rules are unknown...unless u know them
Unless you don't care for senet then why you even here?!?!?!