1. To play Seega you need a board of 5 squares by 5, the central square of which is marked with a pattern.

2. The board starts empty, and each player starts with 12 game pieces, each player having different colors. Players decide who starts by any method they prefer.

1. The gameboard of Seega.

2. If a player can't move, his opponent must take an extra turn and create an opening.

3. After moving a piece to capture an enemy, the player may continue to move the same piece while it can make further captures.

4. You can trap multiple enemies at one time.

5. The piece on the central square is immune from capture, but it may itself be used to capture enemy pieces.

6. A piece can move one square in any horizontal or vertical direction. Diagonal moves are not allowed.

1. The objective of the game is to capture all of the enemy pieces.

2. The player who has captured all of the enemy pieces is the winner of the game.

1. Players take turns to place 2 pieces each anywhere on the board, excluding the central square.

2. When all the pieces have been placed, the second player begins the movement phase.

3. In this phase pieces may move onto the central square.

4. If a player traps an enemy piece between two of his own pieces, the enemy is captured and removed from the board. Diagonal traps don't count.

1. Seega is a battle game most popular in Egypt in the 19th and 20th centuries.

2. The game of Seega was apparently still not known in the 17th century, but it became popular in the early 19th century, only to decline in its homeland late in the 20th. The game is especially interesting as it resembles a few games played in ancient Greece and Rome.

3. The game was more of a pastime of the poor. Boards were found scratched into the temple stones at Kurna, but they appear to be relatively recent and of poor quality. The game was usually played with pebbles on a lattice scratched into the ground.