Rush Hour

How it plays

The challenge card shows the starting positions of the vehicles on the 6x6 grid. Cars and trucks move only forward and backward, never sideways. Goal: clear the red car's path to the exit. 40 challenges in four levels, from warm-up to genuine brain-bender.

What it trains

Rush Hour is the classic training device for sequential, forward-looking planning: several moves must be chained mentally, dead ends recognized, strategies revised. Research on game-based learning uses exactly this kind of sliding puzzle to measure planning ability. Success is objective – the car gets out or it doesn't.