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Egyptian Senet Lite – Board Game Review
Egyptian Senet Lite is a Board/Entertainment/Card game from Mohamed Ezzat, first launched in 18th April 2014.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 90+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Egyptian Senet Lite Stand Out
Start your mysterious afterlife journey to pass through the underworld realm of Osiris.
The Favorite Game Of The Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
The Artifact Of The World's Oldest Board Game Found In King Tut's Tomb, Beside The Golden Coffin & Sarcophagus.
====== Awards ======
◆ 1st Winner Of Egypt e-Content Award 2013.
◆ Silver Winner in 2013 W3 Awards.
◆ 3rd Winner Of Gaming Egypt Contest 2012 organized by iTi.
◆ Nominated for the World Summit Award 2013 in e-Entertainment & Games from Egypt.
◆ Nominated for Top 20 Mobile Apps in Mobily KSA Developers Award 2014.
After performing opening of the mouth ceremony on your mummy by Anubis, you start your afterlife journey protected by Eye of Horus(Wadjet) to pass through the underworld realm of Osiris, challenging an invisible adversary inside an Egyptian hidden tomb in The Valley of the Queens located near the better known Valley of the Kings, on the west bank of the Nile river across from Thebes (Luxor)
Senet is a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt, it is the earliest known record of a backgammon , checkers and chess like games.
The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to around 3500 BC.The full name of the game in Egyptian was meaning "The game of passing".
Games have been around for thousands of years, but none are older than the ancient game of Senet, invented by the Egyptians roughly 3500 or 5000 years ago. It is believed that this two-player board game originated as a popular form of recreation with both royalty and peasantry. But by the mid-13th century BC, Senet had evolved into a more religious ritual. Some depictions from this time period forward show the game being played not by two people, but rather as a deceased player competing against an invisible adversary, interpreted by some to symbolize the deceased players own soul.
The board has become a metaphor for the afterlife with pawns moving across the board just as a soul moves through layers of the netherworld after death. Reaching the final space and leaving the board is the goal of the game, just as reaching Horus and leaving the netherworld was the goal for the Egyptians after their death for attaining rebirth with the gods Isis & Osiris, Sekhmet & Bastet holding the Egyptian Ankh or the papyrus scepter.
The game board consists of 30 squares or slots, arranged in 3 horizontal rows of 10. Pawns move from left to right through row 1, then drop down and move from right to left through row 2. Dropping down again, pawns move from left to right along row 3 and finally, off the board. The game uses the rules of timothy kendall in his game, Passing Through the Netherworld :The Meaning and Play of Senet,an Ancient Egyptian Funerary Game.
The game includes five special squares, governed by their own rules, each containing a hieroglyphic. Square 15 is the House of Rebirth; square 26 is the House of Beauty; square 27 is the House of Water: square 28 is the House of the 3 Truths; square 29 is the House of 2 Truths; and square 30, the last, is the House of Horus,the Egyptian falcon-god and lord of the sky.
Egyptian Senet is a pharaonic challenging game that combines luck,strategy,and magic features authentic photos of ancient Egyptian temples,plus artistically crafted graphics and animation of an ancient stone game board and pieces,set in an echoing,tomb-like chamber.Ritualistic music plus sound effects of stone pieces moving recreate the atmosphere of predynastic Egypt.The App's Icon shows the Egyptian Queen Nefertari playing Senet in her tomb,she was the great wife of the pharaoh Ramesses II(Ramses)Rio. Also many Egyptian Queens have a similar photos playing Senet such as Cleopatra,Nefertiti the great royal wife of Akhenaten,and the Queen Hatshepsut the wife of Thutmose II.
Recommended for everyone interested in Egyptology, Archeology, and Mummification.
Supported Languages: (English Arabic French Spanish German Italian Dutch Russian Japanese Korean Chinese Portuguese-Brazil).
This Board game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Egyptian Senet Lite is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 9th July 2024
Recent improvements include:
System Update
Download & Availability
Egyptian Senet Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Egyptian Senet Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Such a fun game brought to us from the Ancient Egyptians, fun and challenging! Thanks for the awesome app version of this piece of ancient history.
Great little game. Easy to get into but lots of strategy.
Great game! Competitive and makes you think ! Love it.
Awesome way to learn Senet. Features sound effects and is really fun to play.
Great game, solid graphics and sound. Our only complaint is the difficulty level. We think the hardest level is pharaoh but we now consistently beat it. We wish it had a level that understood the importance of fighting for certain positions or squares.
This has been our favorite game. Fantastically rendered with a perfect playing angle, great game play, colors, perfect sounds and ancient background music. The person who made this did a fantastic job.
For creating this gem of a game. What a time we live in that we can learn how to play the oldest game in the world on our phone bc of ppl like you. Now Im definitely buying one. Cheers.
This is a fine game! It sure has its up and downs. It may seem your ahead,bang and the dies come up and the tables have turned. THX.
So far this is the only Senet game Ill play, we really do like it, but would like it more if there was an auto throw button and if the pieces were like Anubis,Isis, Horus, Thoth, ect.. And 1 more thing if the spot right before the water was like a raised platform block or just a slightly raised than other spots. Other than that we like the music and other aspects of this application. Thank you.
Well made.Enjoyed playing this game once again . Loved the music it's an easy game to learn hard to Master . Do give it a try ;-) You will be glad you did ! Greyson in Va.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.1.3
- Size: 49.61 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: NL, EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Mohamed Ezzat
Last updated: 9th July 2024 | Genre: Board, Entertainment | Developer: Mohamed Ezzat