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Each game has a full rules page and short lessons you play by hand, on the same board and the same rules as a match. Start with the rules or jump straight into the lessons.

Senet

The game of passing: 30 squares, hitting, guarding and walls, the House of Beauty and the Water. Four ways to play.

Rules Lessons

Tjau

Twenty squares: bring your pieces in, cross the shared lane, use the marks. The Egyptian board and the Board of Ur.

Rules Lessons

Ṭāb

The folk game of Egypt and Nubia: free your pieces with a ṭāb, go round, and take every enemy piece.

Rules Lessons

Heka cards

Eight cards for all three games: what each does, what it costs, and when it is worth revealing.

Rules Lessons