ThinkFun My First Rush Hour - Engaging Brain Game for Kids | Stimulating STEM Toy | Enhances Logic, Matching, Colors, and Shapes Skills | Best Gift for Toddlers

It is a little confusing to learn, but super easy to teach. Go figure. Great gift for young kids.

I bought three so my kids can play against each other. They love it so much❤️ It’s a race to see who can get the ice cream truck out first 😄

Rush hour is a very decent STEM toy that will teach logic and some sequencing.I bought this for my 4 year old even though it’s rated for 5+ and he was more than able to do the puzzles, thoroughly enjoying it.A plus is the vehicles lends to extended play (imagination, creativity) beyond the actually game.It comes with a neat draw string bag that allows you to easily pack and carry around.. we will be using this a lot for road trips and vacations.

I actually bought this by mistake. Didnt realise they released a junior version here and bought it due to an oversight. Having said that, we stuck to it anyway and gave it to our 6 yr old. There are 4 levels: easy, medium, hard and super hard. After trying 1 game of easy and medium, she asked to try hard and since stuck to working on those and super hard.This junior version is meant for kids aged 5+ and older while the standard version us targeted at 8+ and older though the.grid size is the same. I believe the standard version utilizes more and most if not all of the pieces in each puzzle (been a while since I last played it). We stuck to this one because it still took the easy games for our daughter to understand how to play this though it really didn't take long. The ice cream truck being the key piece also made it relatable for her. Also we didn't want her to be frustrated too early with itif she struggles with the standard version. I know there are some reviewers who said this was easy enough for their 3yr olds . Hey, every child is different. My 3yr old tries to fit them all in the grid despite what we tell him but thats how he is dealing with shapes and puzzles. And he actually plays with foam magnets that u form into animal shapes... There are many ways to using 1 item or so we tell ourselves.I liked that it came with the bag which makes it easy for travel. We expect to transition to the standard version once the older child is ready and the younger one will start on this proper. This way, we also end up with fewer fights. :p

I purchased this for my 5yr old after stumbling across a parenting article, of all things. He breezed through the easy cards, the medium ones slowed, but didn't stop him.I had to read the solution to the 1st easy card, because I never played. I showed him how to play and he hasn't realized this is a learning game yet. One month into COVID he was trying to refuse my Amazon packages because he knew there was something educational being delivered.But he is really happy & excited to free this icecream truck; you'd think I was rewarding him with real ice cream. Right now I have to double check that he's setting the pieces up right & not moving the cars sideways. And I'm wondering if I'm just creating a backseat driver. However, I'm really glad I purchased the version with the cars; it definitely piqued his interest.My only issue is that the cars too easily move around the "tracks." When he gets excited & overly animated the pieces fall off the board or land in new spaces. Although it did give me an idea to make up puzzles once he's mastered the super hard.I lied, I have a 2nd issue: as the medium cards stump him, its no longer a single player game & is now a 2 person game. I must admit this is much more likely due to his age/maturity than the actual game. But perhaps the fact that he hasn't given up & still tries is a testament to the entertainment value & engaging aspects of this game. I do look forward to the day I can hand him a non-electronic toy & actually get alone time. Until then, its mildly entertaining to watch him free the icecream truck and the look on his face is more satisfying than eating actual ice cream.

My 5 year old daughter loved this one, sat for hours together to play through all the cards. Helps with problem solving for young kids

My grand daughters love this game and the different challenges as they get harder. It becomes a family project with the harder ones. Great item for 8 and 6 year olds

This game is a massive success with our three boys. The game builds challenges at a slow pace, getting the child used to how to move the vehicles with ease and understand the game concepts. It can get tricky pretty quick though, but not impossible.My kids have the regular Rush Hour and two of the Junior versions and the only thing that I would improve in this version is to make it more compact by adding the challenge cards on the bottom of the frame, like its big brother (Rush Hour). Tiny hands can’t put the cards back in the box and close it. The fine motor at 4 doesn’t really allow for this. Although the cards at the bottom are a big deal, the rest of the game (pieces, board, cards/levels, bag, and especially concept) is so cool that docking a star wasn’t warranted.All in all, I think this is a 4.5 product and we are big fans!

My kids love this, they love puzzles and they love cars so obviously this is right up their street! It has 40 levels to complete with each adding a new level of difficulty every 10 levels (if that makes sense?!?). Basically, the levels are set well to my kids age (4 + 6) so they should have a few years to get to the point that it becomes easy for them. The idea of the game is to release the ice-cream truck, from a traffic jam of ever increasing complexity, by moving the other vehicles involved in turn to provide a clear path for the ice-cream truck. Of course there are rules but not so many to put kids off and not so few to make it easy. The pieces are not small and it is well constructed so it should last the test of time. All in all a great way to improve your kids logical thinking while having fun for years to come.

My 6 year old daughter loves this, it really gets her thinking, the first 10 odd cards were easy for her, but the rest she's working her way through, its good for travel with a little case to store it all into, the cards could be more durable, I do worry if we lose a piece as it'll make a big difference, but in terms of brain games, its a great one!

This is a complete waste of money and resources. It’s misdescribed as a game and a challenge. It’s a pile of plastic with no purpose. Bought for a 4 year old’s birthday. What a disappointment. We thought we’d missed the point or misread the instructions but realised there is no point to the ‘game’. It’s not a maze and there’s nothing to work out. We went straight to the hard cards in the hope there was more to it at that level, but there wasn’t. I’m returning it.

Love the original rush hour but quite honestly this is extremely disappointing. The easy levels take so long to set up and less than a second to solve and the later levels not a lot better.Buy the original rush hour not this waste of time and plastic!

Brilliant game. Bought for kids aged 5 & 9. Great starter for the normal Rush Hour game which was too hard for them, this has given them the confidence to want to play it and u can see their logic improving. Great for all ages.