The Royal Game of Ur is played on a board made of twenty squares. The board is laid out in an unusual way, with four by three squares joined by a small bridge of two squares in the center and then two by three squares joined to it.
The rules of the game are not completely known, but there have been many reconstructed rule sets, based on a tablet dating from 177-76 BC. Like Senet, the Royal Game of Ur is a race game.
H, Murray suggests that pieces enter and leave the board on the same square. After a piece enters play it turns at the rosette travel along the middle of the game board, turns onto the smaller section over a rosette and travels around the edge to the opposite rosette, turning back down the middle of the board and making a return journey, bearing off at the start square.
R, Bell suggests that the pieces enter the board in the larger section of the board on a throw of five and bear off from the small section of the board. He also suggest that the rosettes have some significance in the game play and the middle of the board is the "Battle Ground" where pieces can be taken.
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Learn.ucs.ac.uk, (2015). [online] Available at: https://learn.ucs.ac.uk/webapps/blackboard/content/listContent.jsp?course_id=_15269_1&content_id=_359811_1&mode=reset [Accessed 12 Mar. 2015].
British Museum. (). Royal Game of Ur. [Available online]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Game_of_Ur.
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