Rush Hour (board game)
Rush Hour is a
rearrangement puzzle invented by
Nob Yoshigahara in the late
1970s and first sold in the
United States in
1996. It is manufactured by
ThinkFun (formerly Binary Arts). The goal of the game is to get a red car out of a six-by-six
grid full of automobiles by moving the other vehicles out of its way. However, the cars and trucks (set up before play according to a puzzle card) obstructing your path are so intertwined that a typical puzzle requires many moves to complete.
ThinkFun now sells Rush Hour spin-offs Rush Hour Jr., Safari Rush Hour and Railroad Rush Hour, with puzzles by
Scott Kim.
Extra puzzle card packs (in addition to the 40 cards included with the game) are also available.
Generalized rush hour, played on an arbitrarily large board, is known to be
PSPACE-complete to solve (see http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/266206.html).
*ThinkFun's
Rush Hour product page*
Rush Hour at Puzzles.COM
Computer Implementations
*
Online version of Rush Hour in
Java.
*A
Rush Hour implementation in
Java*Online
Rush Hour *
Gridlock, a
Flash implementation
*
PyTraffic, a
Python implementation
