Ancient Egyptian game Senet runs in Win-8

If you have kids, or know someone who does, here's a neat game that comes to us from three or four thousand years ago, thanks to the nice folks at the British Museum. It's a little like Cribbage and a little like Checkers, but not exactly like any of those, and it's for two players who race one another to see who gets all their markers off the board first. Here's the game board.....

The rules for playing it are shown on its web page. Have fun, Kids!

 For an interactive demonstration to get you started, keep clicking on the word 'next' in the lower right corner of the game window on its web page.