1. Hounds and Jackals is played on a board with two identical separate tracks, one for each player.

2. The track starts half-way up the tree trunk, runs down the trunk and then moves over to the spaces on the outside of the board, finishing at the top of the tree.

3. There are two bridges on the board, one from space 6 to space 20, and one from space 8 to space 10.

4. Hounds and Jackals require casting sticks. You can use 4 dice instead; odd numbers representing 1 and even numbers 0. Moves are calculated as the sum of the dice (1 through 4). If a throw shows 4 even numbers, the score is 5.

5. Each player selects 5 BEADs the colour of their choice. BEADs start off the board.

6. Players decide who begins the game by rolling a die.

1. Players must roll a single odd number (a 1) to place a BEAD on the starting point – halfway up the tree trunk.

2. If a 1 is not rolled, and there are no BEADs on the board to move, the player forfeits their turn. When a BEAD is placed onto the board with a roll of 1, the player can take a second turn.

3. Players roll to determine how many spaces they can move their BEAD. Each turn they can only move one BEAD, and they must move a BEAD if possible.

4. Players can jump over their own BEAD except for a BEAD on space 10, 15, 20 and 25, BEADs on these spaces may not be passed.

5. Players must land on the final space with an exact throw and can only leave the space with a roll of 4 even numbers (a 0).

6. Players cannot move a BEAD onto a space that is already occupied by one of their BEADs.

7. A BEAD landing on a space linked with a bridge must take the bridge forward.

1. To win the game, a player must be the first to move all 5 of their BEADs around, and the off, the board.

2. If no BEADs can move, the game is a draw.

1. Dogs and Jackals is the modern name of this race game originating from ancient Egypt. We do not know what was the original name of the game. Today it has many names, inspired by the design of the ancient boards and pieces found at archaeological digs.

2. The most common name for this game is Dogs and Jackals, from the pieces of a beautiful ebony and ivory set found by Lord Carnarvon in 1932, the set is thought to be made between 2000 and 1788 B.C. This game is also known as the palm tree game, shields and hounds and jackals, the names are inspired by the shapes and decoration of various boards and pieces.

3. The game seems to have begun in Egypt in around 2000 B.C. The original rules are not known, but a number of board game experts and historians have made plausible reconstructions.