Senet is one of the oldest board games known, played in Egypt for well over two thousand years. Boards appear in tomb paintings, in Tutankhamun's burial goods, and scratched into temple roofs. Two players race five tokens each along thirty squares laid out in three rows, moving by throws of four two-sided casting sticks. The path snakes through houses of fortune and hazard (the House of Second Life, the House of Beauty, the House of Waters) before the tokens leave the board at the House of Horus.
This version follows the reconstruction published by the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago: a playable, historically grounded ruleset with swaps that send a token backward, pairs that cannot be taken, walls of three that block the path, and exact throws to leave the last squares.
Two players share one screen — a phone passed between hands or a laptop set between you. Throw the sticks, then tap or drag one of the highlighted tokens; the throw decides where it lands. Swaps and rebirths play out on the board, and the last houses hold a token until you throw the exact number they ask for. First side to get all five tokens off the board wins. No computer opponent, no account, nothing to install; the game runs entirely in your browser and remembers an unfinished match on your device.
Also from Aakkagam Games: align3, three men's morris on the Roman and Tamil boards, and Ostomachion, Archimedes' fourteen-piece square puzzle.