The Senet Board
The Egyptian board game of thirty squares in three rows of ten, played with five or seven counters and casting sticks or knucklebones, and the most common board game found in Egypt, in use from the Predynastic period to the Ptolemaic. The crossing of its hazardous squares mirrored the soul's journey through the afterlife, and vignettes in the Book of the Dead show the deceased playing senet against an unseen opponent to win passage into the next world. Boards ranged from simple scratched slabs to fine wooden boxes with drawers and playing pieces of faience and ivory; Tutankhamun's tomb alone h