Rules for Senet
Senet Class notes first taught by me at Pennsic 49 2022 By THL Mwynwen Ysginidd Called Strawberry Search Blog for Stick dice for other notes “In a presentation to the XX Board Games Studies Colloquium at the University of Copenhagen , Denmark, Espen Aarseth asked if the game senet could be said to still exist, given that the rules were unknown. [11] In response, Alexander de Voogt of the American Museum of Natural History pointed out that games did not have a fixed set of rules, but rules varied over time and from place to place. Moreover, many players of games, even today, do not play (or sometimes do not even know) the "official rules".” Quote from Wikki WITH THIS IN MIND, I PRESENT ONE SET OF RULES Materials: Senet board, 4 throwing sticks, 5 dark tokens, 5 light tokens Setup: Place all the colored tokens on squares 1–10, with the light tokens on the odd-numbered squares and the dark tokens on the even-numbered squares How Players Move: Toss