What stops attackers from putting 2 at every corner within 8 turns? Fastest a king can move to a corner is like 7 and they'll just block whatever corner you ran straight for. Is blocking off corners illegal?

Its pronounced shove hape nee.

The space issue on the head could be solved by using the “bark of Ra” a small container to hold pieces that made it to the head that is included in some versions. This video was really helpful! I’m writing a story using this game and this really gave me a good understanding of how it works!

Like beer and WHAT??? You mean nuts, mate. Or crisps.

When I was a kid in the US in the 1960s we played a game called Fox and Geese in the snow, but it wasn't this game. I wonder if it was the Russian game you referenced. You would stamp out a wheel-shaped path in the snow, with a circle and several spokes crossing in the center. One kid, the Fox, would start in the center, and the rest, the Geese, would start on the circle. It was a tag game, with the fox trying to tag one of the geese, who would then be the new fox. There weren't really any rules except that you had to stay in the paths. As far as the board game, one set of rules I've seen say that the geese can't move backwards. But I wonder if the people who have published those rules are mixing it up with Asalto, where the goal is for the geese to occupy the "fortress", the bottom arm of the board.

Awesome run down, thank you!

I grew up on this game. The half pennies my father had were polished on the tail side. This made them glide over the board easier. It was considered sacrilegious to polish the head side! My father's board disappeared but I just made my own after fiding slate from a billiard table on Fb market place!!! Happy Days!!!

I don't know anything about Backgammon, but this is looking very similar to Sorry

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Oh wow I saw this thumbnail and immediately thought of playing Nancy Drew White Wolf of Icicle Creek. It has this game. Didn’t think there could be a physical game. Super cool.

OMG thats actually so random. Im developing a similar game and the mechanic of 'you can hop your own pieces or enemy pieces but not 2 in a row' is in my game :O I never even watched this video or even heard of this game before that. SO RANDOM!! Actually really cool to learn! LOL. Its only slightly diff because mine straight blocks movement and Senet lets you clear it with a big enough number.

Lol they were using 'exploding dice' mechanic thousands of years ago. Nice.

Where did you find those flat marbles? Ive found lots of 'basic' colors but not ones that look really nice like those ;o

We tend to use the rule where the king have to reach any space around the edge but I think that only works because we use a 9x9 board, you would think that would make it easy for the king to win, especially since we also need the king to be surrounded by 4 pieces (or 3 pieces and a no move square like the throne) and we still have an about even outcome. The larger the board, the harder you need to make it for the defenders to win to balance things. I read that with an 11x11 board and using the Copenhagen rules the king have just below 60% chance of winning. I seen but never played a 16x16 board, that must be a nightmare for the attackers. Anyways, it is a fun game since it is one of those games that are very easy to learn but hard to master. It is also easy to make your own board and bring it when travelling and playing is a lot faster then chess. I bought my copy at the Wisby Museum in Gotland. I think you missed one important rule though: If it is your turn and you can't move any piece you lost. That doesn't happen often but it does happen (at least to the defenders, I am not so sure it could happen to the attacker).

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Your playing board has a dragon-like creature on the sides. I have seen a similar drawing/carving before, and wonder if you have a source of inspiration. If yes, would you share where you found it?

Ancient Egyptians symbolized 5 as universe where the gods live eternally because the pentagonal five pointed star aptly symbolizes the belief that the king, after his death, becomes a star. Therefore rolling a 5 symbolizes winning the game and is NOT used. This was done intentionally to prevent lay off with a roll of 6 (or 5 since it is not used) when automatically stopped on square 26. Therefore to get a piece off the board from square 26 you need to roll twice. A roll of 1 is water trap, 2, 3, 4 are prep for godhood, 5 is not possible, and 6 brings you to the edge then backwards and is shows what is lucky in life can be unlucky in reaching godhood. The path to godhood from mummification on square 26 is not 1 easy step.

Shuffleboard with coins, got it

Ha'Penny is pronounced "Hay penny" and even that is shortened to "Haypny". Similar to how "Two Pence" is "Tuppence" . Good to see Americans interested in old English stuff.

I the situation where a player rolled a "2" which would have landed him on the other players safe zone. In that situation could he you have just brought another stone on to the board or do you just lose your turn ? And why cant you do that?

Great video. I love that you talk about the fact that it is a reconstructed game, that variations are OK and actually make the game even more fun and versatile :)

Do you think it's like Jumanji?

Your videos are so practical and educational, thank you very much for creating such great content for the public!

I feel like the other squares also have a lot of meaning and rules to them that we don't fully understand. It would make more sense for each player to start at the very beginning of the board instead of having all pieces already on the board to begin with. For instance, there was a "Netting" square that was right after the House Of Rebirth, that might be something like if you go there, you lose a turn or you go back to the beginning of the table. I don't believe there were extra turns if you roll a 1, 4, or all black. The all black should be 0 and a loss of turns. I love that since we don't fully know the rules, that we can all improvise and make things pretty interesting while playing. You could also play without blockades and without any spaces being "safe." Also what if when someone is occupied on a square, but the original rules might've been you can't land on the same square as an opponent at all.. meaning you can't switch the pawns around, but you lose a turn. See how many variations are possible? lol

The reason for the dices instead of flat discs (coins) is the ease of pickup. Simple as that.

Thanks Raven. I did need to understand the origins of the game of Casino Craps.

Recently made a copy of this game and played it with my grandson (11). Looking forward to trying out the different versions. Out of interest, have you heard of the little known Ancient Palace Of Knossos game based on an artifact they dug up that looked to be a game? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knossos_board_game (I made my own board version in Windows Word using pics of ancient Greek tiles). It contains elements from UR being that it is a race game but I find it more involved and also love it, because it is from my home country.

Very informative. Thank you!

Much more popular than the games of Um and Huh?

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Thankyou !

just saw this at Hampton Court on the UK. got my self a board - great explanation

Thank you for this enjoyable and informative video. As a 70-year-old Londoner, I have played this game many times in the pubs of my youth, but I still learned a lot from your video which is full of useful tips.

Okay. I was right. No one has addressed this. If you roll more than you need to reach an opponent, can you knock the opponent off and keep going? Or do you have to roll exactly the amount to land on the opponent and knock him off? My wife and I just played where you could go through opponent's pieces, knocking them off as you go. Was that wrong?

If you land on the house of water Square and the house of rebirth is occupied, what do you do?

The king can only be captured what's 4 surrounding attackers three if it's at the edge. Two spaces cannot capture a king

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no you have to add a nother one

the gamel of the 7 and saying seven hacvecive

Love this channel. I’d love to see new videos! You should check out the mysterious game Luibo.

This is awesome. I wrote about discussing the history of yard games from around the world. I can't wait to learn more about ancient games from you.

Boards were lubricated with arrowroot powder, or some other talcum type powder as arrowroot isnt common these days

I love your tutorial. But I need to clarify something in the rules you provided; if 28 -30 are "safe" if player 1 is on those spaces and just waiting to roll a 1,2, or 3... and player 2 gets to 26, player 2 just has to wait for player 1 to win in effect since they can not stomp square 28,29,or 30? Or am I missing something. Thanks for the amazing tutorial though. Love the game