Senet and Ur... Now what was that other game called?

As guessed from the title, this post is about two ancient board games: 'Senet' and 'The royal game of Ur' (hence why the title was written like that... see what I did there?).

Royal game of Ur

Originally discovered in what is now modern day Iraq by Sir Leonard Woolley in the 1920s, it is 

one of the oldest board games ever found, dating back as far as prior to 2600 BCE (before common era)

The game roughly plays out as follows:

-The two players have four pieces each on one side of a game board (the left side, that is) strangely shaped like some sort of guitar (maybe they were fans of rock - get it, because its made of rock and,,, oh, evermind...)

-The players would take turns to move their pieces around the board to the other end. the first player to get all their pieces off the board completely wins the game.

with these basic principles are other rules to spice up the game. for instance, an opposing player can send your pieces back to the start if they land on one of your pieces, and vice versa. Io avoid this, there are spaces on the board (the marked spaces) that render the player 'immune' to this attack, but it only applies to pieces on these spaces, so choose the time to leave them wisely.

Senet
A game originating from ancient egypt around 3100BCE, Senet sits alongside Ur as one of the oldest board games on earth. A game about passing through the netherworld, the board is made up of a 10x3 grid, the first fourteen of these squares are filled with a game piece, alternating between one player and the other.

The aim is much like the Royal game of ur: get your game pieces off the table before the other. when pieces land on the opposing players piece, they change places, instead of removing them. Another notable
mechanic in this game is the blocking system, where having three pieces together in a row prevents any pieces behind from progressing.