Dave L Wrote:
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> I am meeting him tomorrow for a game of Senet at
> 2pm.
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> He has a board apparently and plays by the
> Piccione rules.

The rules are slightly different depending upon how many pieces you play - 5 each or 7 each. Which way do you distinguish the "Piccione rules" in such a case?

I tend to play Senet with each player with the 7-pieces, and have used the Kendall rules in most cases (his gameboard came with a total of 14 pieces, along with 4 djeba (fingers) instead of dice or black/white sticks). The wooden gameboard I own uses the 5-peice per player version, which can make the game go faster, but loses something in strategy (you can, of course, go forward and backward only in Senet, but the strategy of sacrificing for or gaining against your opponent is one of the best parts of the game ).

Katherine Griffis-Greenberg

Doctoral Candidate
Oriental Institute
Doctoral Programme in Oriental Studies [Egyptology]
Oxford University
Oxford, United Kingdom