One of the most sold wooden board games made by company Mitra - Oficina de Criação is Senet, or the Game of the Pharaohs. Originally from Ancient Egypt, over five thousand years ago, the game is considered an ancestor of backgammon and helps Brazilian children develop reasoning and learn history.
The idea of producing and adapting the game for children came from Art teacher Marta Giartini, who together with her husband, Jorge Massao Takehara, graduated in engineering, established the small Mitra, which produces 18 different kinds of wooden board games. According to Marta, the most sold of the games is Futebox, a football game, followed by Senet. "It is a game with heavy cultural baggage. Thousands of fragments of the game have been discovered in archaeological excavations in Egypt," she said.
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