December
13
- 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
Product Description
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. 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 t… More >>
ThinkFun Rush Hour
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The concept is so simple it’s ingenious. Drive your car in a straight line. But if you’ve ever been in NY during rush hour, you know that’s not always easy. I am of course referring to gridlock, that bane of city traffic, when no cars can move. Well in Rush Hour, you get to move around all the cars and trucks to clear a path for yourself. The game comes with a set of cards (easily stored in the plastic tray) that show where to set up the cars. That takes a minute, but some of the puzzles take a long time to solve. They range from very easy to very hard. And Binary Arts sells extra card sets so the fun never ends! This game is sure to make a lot of kids into civil engineers. As for durability, you could probably throw this game out the window while driving on the highway, and it would be ok. Just better hope it’s not rush hour!
Rating: 5 / 5
My two children ages 8 and 7 love this, as do my husband and I. It’s great in building thinking skills. The challenging cards are enough to stump the adults, yet the beginner cards are a great starting point for the kids. A great game to take places where you have to sit and wait for awhile. I highly recommend it!
Rating: 5 / 5
Simply Awesome! I recommend it for anyone, especially adults on long road trips. Great fun for everybody….
Rating: 5 / 5
Every child who comes to our house & plays this game is hooked and asks to play next time. I am a teacher by profession and this is a very unintimidating logic & reasoning game (for all ages)- I would highly recommend! I have just ordered 5 more to give as x-mas gifts this year.
Rating: 5 / 5
Many of the reviews posted so far say, in one way or another, “I bought this for a kid, but I love it, too.” I’m not ashamed to say that I’m neither a parent nor a teacher and that I bought this for myself. (I did buy another set for my sister’s kids when I saw how great it was.) I’ve always liked Binary Arts products, and this did not disappoint. What I especially like, and why I think it’s valuable educationally, is that it forces you to identify the root causes of the problem and to map out intermediate goals on your way to a solution. If you like this kind of thinking, you’ll enjoy this game.
As others have noted, the packaging is not great because it makes it a little too easy to lose pieces. That accounts for my 4 stars for “durability.”
Rating: 5 / 5