How to play Rush Hour on Mac

Game summary

This is the original sliding block Traffic Jam puzzle, brought to you by the company who created it – ThinkFun. This Rush Hour game comes with a whopping 2500 challenges, ranging from Beginner to high Expert. It's a brilliant range of challenges, if we do say so ourselves… you're going to have a lot of fun on your iPhone with Rush Hour! This is the ORIGINAL Rush Hour – and it’s also the BEST. ************************************************** HOW TO PLAY: Your goal is to get the Red Car out the Exit Gate. To accomplish, just move the blocking Cars and Trucks out of the way. At ThinkFun, we believe in efficient driving. So for each challenge, we track your moves against the minimum distance possible, and score you on how close you came to a perfect distance score. Each challenge becomes a quest in itself! For your moments of frustration, we’ve included a HINT button. If you need a big boost, we also provide a SOLVE button. We recommend you fight your way through and never use these, but they’re nice to have available. ************************************************** GAME FEATURES: - 2500 Games, 625 at each difficulty level - Four difficulty levels – EASY, MEDIUM, HARD, EXPERT - Measures your score against your Personal Best and Perfect Score - Save multiple games in progress - Hint/Reset/Undo buttons to help you figure out each puzzle - Solve button to see how it’s done - Quick and easy Tutorial - Keeps history of "Solved" and "Perfectly Solved" challenges The Rush Hour app has won a 2010 Parents' Choice Gold Award for excellence in mobile play and a 2011 Editor's Choice Award from Children's Technology Review. If you like Rush Hour, check out Solitaire Chess and visit www.thinkfun.com to see more great games from ThinkFun!
First released: Nov 2009

Play Rush Hour on Mac with Parallels (virtualized)

The easiest way to play Rush Hour on a Mac is through Parallels, which allows you to virtualize a Windows machine on Macs. The setup is very easy and it works for Apple Silicon Macs as well as for older Intel-based Macs.

Parallels supports the latest version of DirectX and OpenGL, allowing you to play the latest PC games on any Mac. The latest version of DirectX is up to 20% faster.

Our favorite feature of Parallels Desktop is that when you turn off your virtual machine, all the unused disk space gets returned to your main OS, thus minimizing resource waste (which used to be a problem with virtualization).

Rush Hour installation steps for Mac

Step 1
Go to Parallels.com and download the latest version of the software.
Step 2
Follow the installation process and make sure you allow Parallels in your Mac’s security preferences (it will prompt you to do so).
Step 3
When prompted, download and install Windows 10. The download is around 5.7GB. Make sure you give it all the permissions that it asks for.
Step 4
Once Windows is done installing, you are ready to go. All that’s left to do is install Rush Hour like you would on any PC.
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