Senet #23
165 x 240 mm, 88 pages
London, UK
Quarterly
First published in 2020
Editor: Dan Jolin
Art director: James Hunter
‘Board games are beautiful’
A magazine about the craft, creativity and community of board games. Top fact, the magazine is named after ‘the oldest known board game, dating back to around 3,000 BCE in Egypt.’
This Summer 2026 edition opens, as usual, with a generous selection of curious and fantastical board games expected over the coming year. Elsewhere, you’ll find features sure to have you ‘wistfully skipping down memory lane’: Peter Wooding, owner of Orcs Nest, recounts his favourite memories over the game shop’s almost 40-year tenure; Dan Thurot reflects on ‘roll-and-move’—the oldest and perhaps most dismissed board game system—arguing that it still has life yet; and James Wallis discusses one of the landmark games that heralded Eurogames into the mainstream in the 1960s, Sid Sackson’s Acquire.
On the Journal
At Work With editor Dan Jolin: ‘It’s a wonderfully social activity—far more so than online video gaming, which has turned pretty toxic in some quarters. If anything, I’d say sitting down at a table with friends, family, or even strangers to share the joy of a board game – whether that’s at home, down the pub, in a board-game café, or at a gaming event – is less ‘geeky’ than sitting at home by yourself and playing on the PlayStation.’
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