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Senet.

Senet is one of the oldest known board games. (Details of the original game have been lost but this is how the game may have been played by the the ancient Egyptians.)

The Senet game board is a grid of 30 squares, arranged in three rows of ten.To win the game, get all your pieces off the board by landing them on the final ankh square. On your turn spin the sticks. Your throw is the number of white sides showing. A square can only be occupied by one piece at a time. If no pieces can move, the turn is passed. If a piece lands on an opposing piece, the opposing piece is moved back to the square that the attacking piece started the move from. The House of Happiness cannot be passed over. Every piece must land upon it before preceding onward. The House of water is to be avoided – when a piece lands on this square, the piece is returned to the House of Rebirth. Pieces can only bear off the final three squares by throwing the number indicated on the square.

The first player to bear all pieces off the board wins.