A short time ago, we picked up a travel game for one of our longer road trips: Rush Hour Traffic Jam Jr (Rush Hour). It has been a vital part of our far reaching journeys ever since. Rush Hour is a fun little logic puzzle involving the movement of small plastic vehicles on a free-standing grid. The goal is to free the ice cream truck from the traffic jam.
The traffic jam puzzles get progressively more challenging and will occupy your kids for hours as they try to figure out the solutions. We typically have the parent in the passenger seat set up the game for the player. The parent will hold onto the cards so that we can help prevent our kids from giving up and sneaking a peek at the answer.
This game was even a hit with Bluey when he was a tad too young to understand the concept—he’d just drive the little cars around on the grid.
We love that Rush Hour is non-electronic, encourages problem solving, and gets progressively more challenging (kids can even work together to solve a puzzle- teamwork!!). It has saved us from dealing with unhappy and bored kiddoes on many road trips!