Brain Lab
Rush Hour Brain Lab Resource Pack
The Rush Hour Brain Lab program engages students through the fun of game play and teaches them how to think through the challenges and become successful problem solvers. This Brain Lab Resource Pack consists of:
- 4 Rush Hour games packaged for the classroom. Each game includes:
- 40 Mind Challenge Cards with Solutions, Ringed
- 15 Cars and Trucks, 1 Red Escape Car
- 4 Levels of Play, Beginner to Expert
- Nylon Bag for easy storage
- ThinkFun Super Solvers Poster, 28" x 21"
- An abundance of resource materials, including lesson plans, worksheets, and team games, available for free download in the Downloadable Resources section
This Resource Pack is available at a great price, and the free downloadable materials allow you to use the games in a variety of ways. Purchase one or several to suit your teaching needs!
Item #: B5000
$50.00 US
Downloadable Resources
1: Rush Hour Lessons and Team Games PDFs
Understand the Problem: You need to not only solve the Rush Hour challenge, you need to do it in the shortest possible number of moves. This can get tricky, we challenge you and then teach you how to plan your way to victory.
Exciting news! You can also play an online version of Rush Hour Minimum Spaces, featuring two challenges:
Understand the Problem: The problem is that you need to create a Rush Hour challenge that takes longer for your opponent to solve than his/her challenge takes you to solve. Your strategy needs to be to figure out how to get good at challenge making. What will it take for you to create a really great Rush Hour challenge?
Understand the Problem: The problem is that you must get all your players together on the same solving wavelength, so you understand what others are doing and bring all efforts into alignment. Your strategy should be to have lots of practice sessions with easy challenges and talk through what you are each thinking as you play.
Understand the Problem: The problem is that the puzzle masters at ThinkFun have designed these challenges to be very different from each other, but at nearly the same difficulty level as each other. There is no winning or losing in this game, your goal should be to feel confident in your selection because you have good reasons for making your decision. A good strategy would be to write down your ideas about each challenge as you play through it, and develop this into a list of pros and cons for each challenge to compare to the others.
Understand the Problem: The problem is to think through all the solving possibilities faster and more thoroughly than your opponents, and to be able to determine when a solvable problem has become unsolvable. Your strategy is to be able to think ahead and play through challenges in your head to their conclusion... and to be able to describe your reasoning about why a particular problem cannot be solved.
Understand the Problem: The problem is to understand the boundaries between a solvable and an unsolvable problem. Your strategy should be to get lots of practice with developing game challenges and keep practicing until you start seeing patterns. Once this happens, players improve quickly.
This game is recommended for advanced players.
2: Additional Rush Hour Brain Lab Classroom Resources
- Black Line Master to create your own game on your overhead projector
- Black Line Master for Student Worksheets
- Black Line Master for Individual Tracking Charts
- Parts Inventory and Cleanup sheet
Have you purchased this Rush Hour Brain Lab or already have four regular Rush Hour games? Would you like to partner with us as a Brain Lab tester? Please contact Tanya Thompson.