Assembling new game boards

I love working in my woodshop.  I love assembling a well-cut box.  I really DO NOT like gluing.  I even went out and bought a glue spreader kit this morning, in the hopes it will take some of the tedium away by speeding up the process.

The pics are pre- and post gluing. The dimensions of our senet boards are too small to use the corner clamps on all four, but setting them on opposite corners should keep the box square.

Senet Game Board Squares

We started experimenting with the game squares for Senet.  Here, we've simply painted the heiroglyphs onto the appropriate squares.  The meaning of the glyphs, as far as gameplay, is open to some interpretation.  I'll go into depth on gameplay in a later post.  The glyph in the center of the board (usually referred to as "square 15"), is usually called the House of Rebirth.  In some renditions of the rules, a player's piece must go back to this square if he lands on square 27, the House of Waters (4th from the last square).

Game Piece Markers

These are some prototype game piece markers we've come up with.  Across the top are some Senet/Tjau game pieces.  In the center are two stylized throwing stick/knuckle bone pieces.  In the bottom left corner are some makers for a tic-tac-toe board we've thought of putting together (I really like the cuneiform-like x's and o's).  On the bottom right are some generic markers.