Rush Hour, the little plastic traffic jam that has stumped families for three decades, has a new trick: a second player to beat. ThinkFun has marked the puzzle's 30th anniversary with Rush Hour Duel, a head-to-head version where two players race to slide their way out of gridlock before their opponent escapes first.
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Set up your group for freeIf you have ever owned the original, you know the drill. You shuffle cars and trucks around a cramped six-by-six grid to free the trapped red car. The solo game, invented by Japanese puzzle legend Nob Yoshigahara and released by ThinkFun (then Binary Arts) in 1996, went on to sell more than a million copies and became a staple of classrooms and family shelves alike. Duel keeps that sliding-block puzzle at its heart but bolts on the one thing the original never had: a direct rival sitting across the table.
Each player takes a set of vehicles, and both tackle the same jam at once. First to clear a path for their car wins the round. The 30th anniversary box packs in 40 fresh challenges built for two, so it scales from kids to adults without anyone needing to read a rulebook longer than a postcard.
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Find events near youIt is the kind of game that earns its keep at the start of an evening or the end of a long one: quick to teach, quick to pack away, and genuinely tense when two people are racing the clock and each other. At around $25 it is an easy add to the shelf, and it is out now wherever ThinkFun games are sold.
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