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ThinkFun Rush Hour Feature

• Four levels of play, beginner to expert
• Forty mind challenge cards with solutions
• Sixteen cars and trucks, one red escape car
• One traffic grid game board and game-go storage bag
• For ages 8 years and above

ThinkFun Rush Hour Overview

Rush Hour is the mind-challenging game of pure bumper-to-bumper fun! Players set up the cars and trucks on a game grid to match one of forty color-coded challenge cards, and then try to maneuver the red car to escape the gridlock. Four levels of play range from beginner to expert. Measures 9″W x 8″H x 2.5″D.

ThinkFun Rush Hour Specifications

Honk! Honk! It’s gridlock and the little red car can’t move. The player is a traffic cop in the Rush Hour Traffic Jam Puzzle where the objective is to get the red car off the road. To play, pick one of 40 challenge cards; solutions are printed on the back of each card. Then set up the cars and buses in a specified pattern on the 6-inch-square road grid. Move the vehicles one by one (obey those traffic laws!) until the red car can escape the traffic jam. There are four levels of difficulty. Kids can alternate turns with another player or just “play in traffic” alone. The game from Binary Arts received a national award from Mensa and is used in elementary school math classes. The design includes clear instructions printed on the sturdy box, which can be used both as a playing tray and for storage. The game cards stow away in a drawer in the road grid. This is a 1999 Parents’ Choice recommended toy. –Marcie Bovetz

ThinkFun Rush Hour User Review

I purchased this game two years ago and I still play it. I’ve worked through all of the cards now but the expert ones are hard enough that you can redo them again and again without remembering the moves plus there are additional card packs you can purchase. My son wanted to learn how to play so I set up a beginners level game for him and he zoomed through the first few puzzles in the pack so I bought the junior version for him. He was 3 at the time and he’s now 4 and back on the adult version, just hit the expert level today. He’s incredibly logical and has excellent spatial reasoning skills, no doubt due in large part to his love of Rush Hour. It’s a very educational game for kids and great fun for adults. 

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