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ThinkFun Rush Hour
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List Price: $16.99
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Product Details
- Batteries Included: 0
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- Binding: Toy
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- Brand: Think Fun
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- EAN: 0019275050009
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- Features: 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
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- Is Autographed Specified
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- Is Memorabilia Specified
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- Label: ThinkFun
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- Manufacturer: ThinkFun
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- Model: 5000
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Health and Beauty
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- Publisher: ThinkFun
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- Release Date: 2006-01-01
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- Studio: ThinkFun
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- Title: ThinkFun Rush Hour
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- UPC: 019275050009
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Product Description: 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
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Customer Reviews
Rush Hour Fun
I thought I should drop a few lines and tell you how much my 9 year old nephew loves this game. Honestly, we didn't know about the game until he was put in pedi-ICU at Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital in Amarillo, Texas. He has been diagnosed with Chiari Malformation (simply put, the hole in his cranium that allows the brain stem and spine to go through to the spinal column is too big and his brain stem has fallen down through the hole) and with that came SEVERE Headaches. After about a week in ICU he was able to take a trip to the play room and he found Rush Hour. This game challenged him to use his mind to think through moving the cars around to get the red one out. He was very good at it and loved the game so much that my sister-in-law and I decided to buy him his own. This game has traveled from his home in the very northern Panhandle of Texas to Lubbock to Dallas and in a few days he will be headed to New York to the Chiari Institute so he can be evaluated there. Thank you for keeping a sick little boy's mind challenged enough to quit thinking about his hurting head. The rest of us love to play it as well. So many times people don't writet about the good things. They only complain about the bad. I wanted to share this story with you. --Aunt Kim
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Great game you can play by yourself!
This game is very appealing to boys because it has cars, but also very educational because it is puzzles to solve which uses reasoning! My son (5)has the JR. version and really likes it! It also comes with a storage bag that I love and its easy to take with you.
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My son loves it.
My 8 year old son played this at school and loved it. It keeps him occupied for at least an hour. He went through the first pack of cards in 2 weeks so I ordered 3 more packs. Very easy to set-up, pack-up, take in the card etc. Some of the puzzles are even challenging for adults! It can be a fun family game as well. If my son is stuck, Mom, Dad or brother usually try to give ideas. I would highly recommend it for problem solving skills.
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Good for one; 40 and done
You setup cars & trucks in predetermined positions according to pictures that come with the game, and have to get the red car to drive out of the grid. Good at helping to develop strategy skills. Good for one player, but okay for two - my wife and I work on them together. The game itself is durable - only downside is that the game comes with 40 cards, 10 each of Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced and Expert. Once you're done with those 40, you're done with the game unless you want to try some over again. We've played the game on two occassions and are more than halfway through the stack of cards. Kids will (hopefully!) take longer to work through them.
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Great game!
My eight-year-old son loves cars, so this game was perfect for him! The rest of the family became addicted to it too! It really makes you think and strategize, and as soon as you think it is easy, the next arrangement is nearly impossible. My son likes it because he can play it by himself, or have some one work on it with him. I would (and already have) reccomend this game to everyone! My four-year-old liked it as much as the fifty-three year old!
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