But there are many other forms beside." There is more light on Egypt in later works than in Rawlinson, but the statement quoted will serve for our text.
Several complex methods of making visible scenarios are listed in this work.

Here is one that is mechanically simple.

Let the man searching for tableau combinations, even if he is of the practical commercial type, prepare himself with eight hundred signs from Egypt.

He can construct the outlines of his scenarios by placing these little pictures in rows.

It may not be impractical to cut his hundreds of them from black cardboard and shuffle them on his table every morning.