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Friday Fun
Last weekend, I got to play a couple new (to me) games that I wanted to pass along to you. These are basically solo games--puzzles, really--but they can be fun to work on together. We took them with us to a restaurant and it was a great way to pass the time as we waited for our order to come out.
The first is Rush Hour. You have true gridlock here as a grid is occupied by cars and trucks of various sizes. The challenge is to get one particular car through a hole by only moving the cars backward and forward. It's essentially a sort of tile game, but the variety of cards make the game a new challenge each time. We mostly played with the hardest ones and they were hard. Good challenge, good fun.
Tip Over is another puzzle game, in which you are attempting to move a little man from his starting point to a specific other block by tipping over the landscape of block towers to avoid touching the ground. In short, it's a puzzle game in which you have to figure out the spacial relationships necessary to solve the puzzles. Like Rush Hour, there are multiple difficulties in your choice of cards, and it is likewise fun for an individual and a cooperative group.