The known history of Senet is certain that it was a game of draughts. We invented this strategy game because it is believed by us that a simple path game does not measure up to the respect and importance that this game held in Ancient Egypt. The logic of the four marked squares is from to, three, X and finally to the nefer or lute sign meaning pleasure. These to us are the marks intending to refer to the basic rules of the game: II, signifies the rule of safe pairs, III, would indicate the object of getting three in a row, the X means to split or to divide, that would be the rule that checks every three, and finally the lute sign which very often was repeated three times and this would indicate that if a three was not split it was complete and you had the pleasure of winning the game. For more information and a bibliography of sources please write us at GAMESMAN.

The best evidence that the move was a jump move like the knight in the game of chess is in the fact that when Senet was used as a glyph in Egyptian writing it had a checkerboard pattern. Since a knight move defines the checkerboard by each move changing from either black squares to white squares or visa versa a checkerboard is invented to study the strategy of the game.