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Designed By	(Uncredited)
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Published By	(Public Domain) ABRA Cadaco Fundex Geoludie Kirk Game Company L. P. Septímio Mitra Origem Senet Belgium Show More »
Year Published	-3500
# of Players:	2 − 2
User Suggested # of Players	Best with 2 players Recommended with 2 players (4 voters) [poll]
Playing Time	30 minutes
Mfg Suggested Ages	6 and up
User Suggested Ages	10 and up (1 voter) [poll]
Language Dependence	No necessary in-game text (1 voter) [poll]
Category	Ancient Dice
Mechanic	Roll and Move
Primary Name	Senet
Alternate Names	30 Squares Die 30 Stufen King Tut's Game Passing Through The Netherworld Senat
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Senet is an ancient Egyptian board game similar to backgammon. Each player has 5 pawns which travel around a 3 by 10 board in an S shaped path. Movement is dictated by the throw of 4 sticks (black on one side and white on the other) which can produce a 1,2,3,4,or 5, depending on how they land.. As in backgammon, the objective is to bear all of one's pawns off first. A couple of interesting differences is that there are safe and trap spaces on the board. Also, players may block each others' progress as in Parchisi. Senet sets are usually constructed from various woods and are often quite beautiful.

It may be a relative of Aseb and UR.

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Very Good	$7.00	1-Mar-2009
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4	Variants Senet with a dice	2008-11-07	trioker	11
4	Variants Senet with a theme	2008-11-05	trioker	3
18	Reviews Senet: Review of versions	2007-05-20	wargamer55	0
0	General Senet	2005-02-25	mlvanbie	0
2	Reviews User Review	2004-06-19	dice-o-matic	1

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Rules in Dutch

LordT

2009-10-28

Historia y reglas en Español

Reglamento del British Museum y variante del egiptólogo Edgar B. Push

Er Murria

2008-01-25

Senet

Senet, by Damian Walker. Traditional Board Game Series, Leaflet #4.

snigfarp

2006-10-11

Ancient Egyptian Games - Bibliography.pdf

Bibliography for the Senet document et al.

Urhixidur

2002-09-16

Senet.pdf

Senet, history and rules, in PDF

Urhixidur

2002-09-16

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280	BoardGameGeek Chain of Generosity	2007-09-19
223	The Top/Highest ranked game from each year	2007-07-13
199	Let's play a game!	2008-04-07
185	This is OUR Hobby....	2007-01-07
184	The "Old Guy and his Girlfriend" board game box	2007-11-06
180	BoardGameGeek Top Ranked Game (By Year, Descending, 2007AD to 3000BC)	2005-11-27
168	The Originals	2005-11-26
165	The History of BGG Rankings: The Early Years	2007-03-30
139	Games I consider works of genius, the best products in the hobby.	2009-04-09
130	Good Fantasy Books	2009-03-10

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Average Rating:	5.73
Standard Deviation:	1.48
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Users Owning:	346
Users Wanting:	10
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Senet as a phonetic hieroglyph	http://www.touregypt.net/museum/tutl39.htm	2009-10-16
Senet at Wikipedia	http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Senet	2009-10-14
English review from Gamers Alliance	http://www.gamersalliance.com/Summer2008/34kids.ht...	2009-09-15
Dutch Review on www.spellenclub13.be	http://www.spellenclub13.be/recensies/Senet.html	2008-10-27
In Search of the Meaning of Senet by Peter A. Piccione at the Elliot Avedon Museum & Archive of Games	http://www.gamesmuseum.uwaterloo.ca/Archives/Picci...	2008-07-11
A new shareware version of Senet for Mac and Windows	http://senetgame.com	2008-01-28
How to play Senet	http://www.ancientegypt.co.uk/life/activity/main.h...	2003-11-10
Rules in PDF (Hasbro) (scans only, not text) (1946 Parker Brothers)	http://www.hasbro.com/instruct/Senet.pdf	2001-11-12
Senet for Windows 1.20, an old (Visual Basic 3) but still serviceable shareware implementation (with a customisable opponent AI) which comes with a very complete Help file that explains the history of the game and the known variants.	http://www.angelfire.com/pq/Urhixidur/index.html	2001-11-02
Shareware Senet implementation (and a bunch of other ancient games as well); inferior rule set but snazzier interface	http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PSNeeley/	2001-11-02

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