How to play Senet
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 พ.ย. 2024
- Learn the rules to the board game Senet quickly and concisely - This video has no distractions, just the rules.
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RULES:
The object of the game is to bear your pieces off the board first. Layout the board. Pieces move round the board like so, with the invisible numbers 1 through 30 assigned as so. Setup the pieces alternating like so, with a darker piece on the 10 square. Piece movement is determined by throwing 4 two-sided dice sticks. One flat side up is 1. Two is 2. Three is 3. Four is 4. And all four rounded sides up is 6. Alternatively, you can play with a die but you ignore 5s.
Players take turns rolling to see who can roll a 1 first. The first to roll a 1 takes control of the darker pieces for the remainder of the game and moves the piece on square 10 forward 1 square. Then that player rolls again. On your turn, you move a piece exactly the number rolled. If you rolled a 1, 4, or 6; then you get to go again. If you rolled a 2 or 3, then after moving your turn ends.
If you move to the same square as an opponent’s piece, their piece is “under attack”. Move their piece back to your piece’s starting position and you take its spot. Two pieces of the same color may not occupy the same square; but 2 pieces of the same color that occupy consecutive squares next to each other protect each other from being attacked. If you have 3 of your pieces in consecutive squares, then you form a block and your opponent may not attack or pass pieces over your block.
If you are unable to move a piece forward, then you must move a piece in reverse, still swapping locations of an opponent’s piece you land on. If you are unable to move either direction, then you do nothing and your turn ends.
Square 27 is “water” and it is a trap. Any piece that lands on this square must return to square 15. If square 15 is already occupied, then the piece returns to the closest to the start of the board that is available. Squares 26, 28, and 29 are safe, and pieces there may not be attacked. When a piece would move to a square beyond 30, it is called “bearing off” and the piece removed from the board. You may not bear off a piece while you still have pieces in the 1st row. If you bear off a piece with a roll larger than the number of squares needed, then you transfer the remainder of the roll to moving another piece.
The first player to bear off all their pieces wins. If you want, you can play for points over multiple rounds. The player who wins the round scores 1 point for each of their opponent’s pieces in the 3rd row, 3 points for each piece in the first or second row.
It maybe the world's oldest boardgame before chess, but it didn't have the popularity with only a few people knowing about it.
I used to play Senet online, but the rules can be hard to understand until this video explains it well.
Honestly it's really not that hard to understand in my own personal opinion. it has elements similar to the game "Sorry" but also the game "Parchisi". A relatively simple board game for sure. It was amazing to see some of the basic concepts represented in other modern board games that I have played before!
The rules aren't actually known to senet, they were made up in modern time so you're not really playing the worlds oldest. If you want the worlds actual oldest Royal Game of Ur is much better and more fun to play.
I thought the royal game of Ur was the oldest?
@@alixx_legenddark_xx2819 Senet and Ur have roughly the same age, as both were played by egyptian royalty (although Senet was more popular). But both Senet and Ur rules set are still being debated, and what historians and ludologists managed to recreate is a rough understanding of the actual rules for both games. Ur managed to have more documents surviving depicting how it is played than Senet, but nobody actually knows how Senet and Ur were, in fact, played, since boardgames from the era had varying rules depending on the region they were being played - Houserules confusing the eff outta us since 3000 a.c lol
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I have a set and play nearly the same way. I didn't realize the "no bearing off if you have a piece in the first row" was a thing. Will have to look at my rulebook again.
Okay - just checked my rules. Sure enough, both the bearing off rule AND the point counting (1 and 3) bit are there.
Also found the answer to a question I had for years: If I roll a 1 4 or 6 and can't move, do I roll again?
"If no move is possible in either direction, then the turn of the player ends."
Looks like he does his homework well, folks! I love learning games quickly via these vids. Cheers dude!
Very clear explanation of an ancient game. King Tut would be pleased with you.
I had to do a project about this game in middle school. This would have been very helpful.
Same, but for me, just two years ago
It reminds me of backgammon, only with one path that all pieces follow, and adjoining spaces protecting each other instead of stacking.
My thought exactly
Egypcian kid: "can we have backgammon?"
Egypcian mom: "we have backgammon at home"
Backgammon at home:
Atleast it's good
its better
This is actually quite a good game.
Very simple too.
I think there are games that are similar but went overboard with the board design.
Imagine playing it with the set found in King Tut's tomb.
“Return the game! Or suffer my curse…”
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It'd be super cool if you did an instructionary video on the Hnefatafl varient called "Tablut" (the only extant variant that has been fully documented). I've experimented with it quite a bit in Tabletop Simulator and it's actually quite a fun game. It was a popular game amongst the Norse Vikings and was played on a Chess-like board (9x9 rather than 8x8) with an asymmetrical amount of pieces (and asymmetrical goals) for either side at a ratio of 2:1. The goal of the defenders was to get their king (starting in the middle of the board) to the edge of the board while the goal of the attackers was to capture the enemy king. There's some other rules, but they can be easily found on the game's wikipedia page or elsewhere. All in all its quite a simple, yet cool, strategy game that I think would fit well on this channel. Love your videos!
Ah, ancient board game
Long before chess came into existence, but chess became popular worldwide.
I played this at a ren faire a few years ago, it's fun. Had no idea you could sub in a d6 for the dice-sticks, though... although, that _does_ change the odds of rolling a given number. On a d6 (treated as a d5 since the 5-pip face is unused), you have equal odds (20%, or 16% if rolling a 5 is treated as lose-a-turn as a houserule) of rolling any of the numbers. With the sticks, it's binary logic with 16 possibilities in all: 4/16 of a 1, 6/16 of a 2, 4/16 of a 3, 1/16 of a 4, 1/16 of a 6. To keep the odds of each roll the same, I'd sub in four coins instead... but it's still not a good substitute since coins are a straight 50/50, while the sticks are shaped in a way that they "prefer" to land facing up (more rotational angles resolve to up than down).
Old board games like these inspired board games that exist within the universe of my DnD campaign
i've always wondered how to play senet.. it feels awfully similar to Ur
Its like ancient "sorry" game more like "my apologies the Great god ra"
I remember that my brother's box set for the TV series "Lost" came with a Senet board/pieces. I guess we can finally play it 😂
Thanks, now i can gamble with a moon godess so u can birth my 5 children.
Nice to see you do more ancient board games, I wonder if you'll do the variations as well or just do the rules as written with the sets you get
The object of the game never gets old
I'm still waiting for a new game to be learned by you, JIm.
Do a video for the Royal Game of Ür, please.
I suppose this is quite an old game.... it looks really funny
Sooo interestinggggg!!!
"Two sided dice sticks"
Holy Thoth, How old is this game?! xD
Way older than chess.
Yeah, I can tell. xD@@arrowghost
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Aye! The ancient egyptian game! :D
So Old-School Snake n Ladders.
Keep in mind that this is a reconstruction based on conjecture. No one really knows exactly how it was actually played.
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seems like an ancestor of backgammon
i had to play this for a church event, it was confusing but fun
Actually, you can't substitute the 4 d2 for a single d6 ignoring 5 without affecting the relative frequencies of the different possible throws. This is because not all outcomes have the same probability. 1 and 4 have a lower probability to occur compared to 2 for example
Why do you skip 5? That seems like a weird choice.
I'm guessing it has to do with the way the sticks work or fall. They're rounded on one side and it seems it'd be easier to land on that side compared to all on the flat side. A larger percent of the perimeter is curved, so it's more likely to fall in that direction and stay that way. Since landing all on the flat side is less likely, it jumps from 4 to 6.
there is a term that reminds me of taking of a checker after all 15 have moved to the home board in backgammon
Have you considered doing dragon chess from D&D?
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We can only guess at how Ancient Egyptians played it. This is the equivalent of teachers in Bob's Burgers using Burobu cards.
Would love to see UNO No Mercy on here.
The rules are the same as check except for these changes
it's possible to have only one turn for the with that 1,4,6 rule isn't it?
Make a vid about uno no mercy
could you please do it for my sake?
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Levels of checkerboard games
Checkers: beginner
Senet: regular
Chess: master
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Senet as in the game portrayed in house of anubis???
I can’t believe they made candy land thousand of years ago
you've done other major languages, but for tamil people, even though they and me know the english language, some people don"t.
Apparently they played this in Greece it was called senate.
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I just use ancient Egyptian rules
It's similar than the backgammon
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Starting up a Senet pro league. Who's in?
Huh. These rules to Scene-It look a lot different than I remember....
No, all four color(non-black) sides down is five, no six.
Is this the game from the Ten Commandments movie?
Any Egyptian movie would have it as well, I saw the Mummies animation and it was featured, a young adult princess beat a young kid (who happen to be her future brother-in-law) in senet.
I thought Senet rules were lost in time.Glad they’re not
I would just like to say... this video is very inaccurate.
Errors include - from several sources e.g. BoardGameArena,
1. All round faces gives a 5, not a 6
2. If your piece is in the house of waters or space 27, you may either try to throw 4 to bear it off OR return it to the house of rebirth, attacking an enemy piece in there
3. Pieces MUST stop in the house of judgement/happiness, space 26, before moving on
4. The final 4 spaces aren't just not safe, but your pieces cannot even protect each other there
5. On space 28, you must throw a 3 to bear the piece off; similar deal with space 29 and throwing a 2
6. You can't transfer extra moves after bearing a piece, and even if you could, the only space you can do so would be from the final space.
Lastly, it's likely better to play using 4 coins rather than a dice without sticks. The game relies on weighted rolls, such as 2s being 6 times more likely than 4s
And don't get me wrong; this is probably the only inaccurate video on the channel and idk if the rulebook in this specific set had different rules or anything
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I just wish the board had better , more authentic decorations
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Dumb Ways to Die the card game have been released, wanna try that out for us?
How to play Ur Game when?
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Its 'Senet' not 'Siiinet'. Why do you guys always 'read' the alphabet instead of pronunciating them?
Weird, that's never how I played Scene It
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