In Modern Culture
The game is mentioned in the 1972 film version the play Sleuth by Anthony Shaffer, when the character Andrew Wyke refers to "an intensely complicated 4th dynasty blocking game called Senet. I've been at it for months but I am still only a beginner."
Senet is played in the TV show Lost in the episode Across the Sea. In Rick Riordan's The Throne of Fire, Carter and Sadie Kane and Bes play Senet against the moon god Khonsu. In the popular 1999 video game Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, the player (playing as series heroine Lara Croft), must play a game of Senet in order to advance through the Tomb of Semerkhet level. If she loses the game she goes further through one area, if she wins she goes through another. In House of Anubis, Nina Martin (portrayed by Nathalia Ramos) and her friends must play a game of Senet to get through the final chamber of the underground tunnels to reach the Mask of Anubis.
In the Nancy Drew game Tomb of the Lost Queen, you can play Senet against a computer player, it even gives you an award if you play Senet a number of times.
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