Senet

Senet is an ancient Egyptian board game. The earliest representation of senet is dated to c. 2620 BCE from the Mastaba of Hesy-Re.

History
The game is played by two players each having thee pieces. The one who moves their pieces to the end of the board is the winner. The board has five ankh symbols that allow the one who steps their piece on it to roll again. The rolls are made with a four casting sticks that are painted black on one side and white on another. How many white sides are rolled is how many steps the piece can move. When all four blacks are rolled, then the piece can move six steps and the player can roll again. Moving one's piece onto another player's piece moves it to the start of the board.

Trivia

 * Since the rules of the real-life Senet are a subject of some conjecture, the in-game rules are not factual, particularly because although it is called Senet in-game, the board game depicted in-game is not Senet or a variant of Senet (which typically had three lanes of ten cells, and five pieces per player), but is actually a modified version of a different game that was often included on the back of Senet boards: the game of twenty squares. The game of twenty squares is a variant of the Royal Game of Ur, from Mesopotamia, while Senet is Egyptian.