Ice Fishing

About Ice Fishing

✨ Step into the world of ancient Egypt and play Senet — one of the oldest board games known to humankind, played along the Nile more than 5,000 years ago.

🎲 Ice Fishing is a faithful, offline reconstruction of Senet built around a real game engine, not a themed skin. Race your five pieces along the sacred boustrophedon path, the "S"-shaped journey through the Duat and bear them all off the board before your opponent does.

⚖️ A REAL RULESET
📜 Reconstructed from the Kendall ruleset: throw the four casting sticks instead of dice, capture lone opponents by swapping places, form protected pairs and three-in-a-row blockades and navigate the special houses, the 🏛️ House of Beauty (Nefer) 🌊 the treacherous House of Water that sweeps you back and the final houses of the Three Gods 🦅 the Two Falcons and ☀️ Ra, each demanding an exact throw to reach the afterlife.

🤖 A THINKING OPPONENT
🎯 Three difficulty levels, each with a unique strategy:

🌱 Novice: relaxed, plays freely, perfect for learning.
📚 Scribe: weighs every move one step ahead.
👑 Pharaoh: searches deep through the odds of the sticks (expectiminimax) a real challenge.

📱 PLAY ANYWHERE, ANYTIME
📴 100% offline. No account, no sign-in, no internet connection, no ads. Your matches, stats and 🔥 streaks stay entirely on your device.

📖 LEARN THE ANCIENT GAME
🖼️ An illustrated, interactive Rules screen and a 🏺 House of Symbols collection teach you the board, the pieces and the lore behind every sacred square.

📈 TRACK YOUR JOURNEY
🏆 Match history, 📉 win/loss stats ⭐ best streaks and per-difficulty records, all stored locally.

🎨 A CREATIVE STUDIO
📸 Compose a Senet board scene or cartouche over your own photo and save the artwork to your gallery.

🌅 CRAFTED VISUALS & MOTION
🎭 Hand-drawn vector iconography, procedurally rendered symbols and a warm temple-dusk theme. 🚫 No stock clip-art, no emoji.

❤️ Whether you're a history lover 🎲 a board-game Ice Fishing strategist or simply curious about how the pharaohs spent