# Rush Hour

Slide the cars and trucks out of the way and drive the red car through the gap on the right edge to escape.

- Category: Puzzle
- Features: Offline play
- Tags: puzzle, logic, sliding, sliding block, unblock, cars, traffic, brain, escape

## How to play

### Goal

Slide the cars and trucks out of the way and drive the red car through the gap on the right edge to escape.

### Rules

• Every vehicle only slides along its own lane — a car facing across the board moves left and right, one facing up the board moves up and down
• Vehicles never turn, never lift over one another, and never leave the board except the red car through the exit
• Only the red car can escape, and only through the gap on the right of its row

### How to Play

• Drag a car along its lane, as far as the road is clear
• Tap a car to select it, then nudge it with the arrow keys or WASD
• Space or Tab picks the next car for the keyboard
• Undo takes back your last move; Restart deals the same board again
• A move is one car sliding one way, however far — so sliding a car three cells counts as a single move

### Tips

• Look for the one car that blocks the red car's row and plan how to clear it first
• Every other move exists only to make room for that — work backwards from the exit
• Par is the fewest moves the puzzle can be solved in; matching it is the real challenge

### Difficulty

Boards get busier as the level rises — more cars, longer chains of moves to untangle, and higher pars. Every board is generated to be solvable and its par is the true optimum.

Play Rush Hour in the free Game Nest app for iPhone, iPad, and Android.