10 February 2014

Sokoban lessons - Five boxes (with rooms)

With 5 boxes it is possible to find very difficult puzzles. Here I have chosen only a few, which I like most, and I have tried that there are represented most of authors, topics and difficulties. I hope your comments and suggestions.

See also Lines (5-8 boxes), where another 10 puzzles of 5 boxes have been selected.

You can download all puzzles here:


Five boxes (with rooms)

 

Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch #9
Date: January 1999
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 150/46


A classic of storage.


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Nabokosmos #10
Subtitle: 50ième (50th)
Comment: Mon 50ième niveau. L'astuce principale est bien camouflée, à vous de la trouver.
Date: January 2001

Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 8.5 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 211/49

Rotary puzzle, a topic very treaty by Aymeric (see also levels #26 to #28). My difficulty rating: 6.5.



Author: Aymeric du Peloux + GRIGoRusha
Title: Nabokosmos #33 a
Set: Remodel Club #80
Comment: added 2 walls
Date: May 2001. Remodel: 2005.6.23

Website:
www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm

Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 215/73

Laborious quasi-compact. If you like the maneuvers in tight spaces, this is your puzzle.



Author: François Marques
Title: Sokompact #37 The boot
Date: August 2001

Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 118/44

The magic boot! See also Sokompact #40 ("The sword").



Author: Kenyam (Kenya Maruyama)
Title: minus-plus zero
Comment:
Another version of SetA #2 "minus-plus".
The number of boxes (-1) and Difficulty (+1) makes zero. That's the title.
Date: Revised 10/06/2002
Website: www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Domino/7999/soko/skrmc_a.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 201/54


Difficult level, with some non-obvious moves.


Author: Serg Belyaev
Title: svb389 arr.
Note: arranged by J.D.
Date: August 2002
Website: svb-sokoban.narod.ru/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 222/59


Nice! There is to do delicate maneuvers both on top and at the bottom. I've removed an unnecessary box.


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Cosmonotes #7
Difficulty: 7 (A. du P.)
Date: c. June 2003
Website:
www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Best moves/pushes: 170/61

Puzzle of ugly look, however requires surprising changes of position of the boxes. Other interesting levels: Nabokosmos #9, #28, #33, Myriocosmos #4.



Author: František Pokorný
Title: #23 Round
Comment: ;-))
Date: 2003.6.17

Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 325/42

The title "Round" is very appropriate: in the optimized solution, the player has to give up to 10 laps around the puzzle.
Other interesting levels: #39 ("Circle") and #55.


Author: Ghislain Martin + Jordi Domènech
Title: SokoStation variations #66
Comment: based on SokoStation #151 Deux à la fois
Date: 2003.12.5. Remodel: January 2012
Website:
www.sokoban.fr/
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 352/82

It seems simple, but the solution is not at all obvious. You'll have to put elbows on the table to find a solution...



Author: Serg Belyaev
Title: svb443 arr.
Note: arranged by J.D.
Date: April 2004
Website: svb-sokoban.narod.ru/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 269/60


Nice level, fun to solve. I've removed an unnecessary box.


Author: GRIGoRusha (Evgeny Grigoriev)
Title: GrigrSpecial #27 Gambit
Date: 2005.1.2

Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 207/74

Beautiful level, and fun to solve,
with a structure of four rooms. Other interesting level: GrigrSpecial #4 (remodel of Nabokosmos #32).


Author: GRIGoRusha (Evgeny Grigoriev)
Title: GrigrSpecial #28 Baton
Date: 2005.1.2
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 445/137


Laborious level, with rooms in the three corners. However, personally I prefer the previous level.


Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox2 #12
Date: January 2005
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 210/45


Interesting "angle".



Author: František Pokorný
Title: #92
Date: 2005.2.4
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 164/58


Puzzle seemingly simple, but tricky and fun.


Author: Dries De Clercq
Title: 696 #127
Date: c. April 2005
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 166/59


Extra mini rotary puzzle. All boxes rotate around the central wall (counterclockwise). Perhaps be the smallest rotary puzzle of the whole history of Sokoban.


Author: Dries De Clercq
Title: 696 #132
Date: c. April 2005
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 250/56


A nice miniature.

Dries De Clercq has numerous puzzles in 5 boxes. I have chosen these, but I could have chosen other 20. If you like small levels, I recommend to visit their collections, "Zone26" and "696".


Author: František Pokorný
Title: #96 Warm up
Date: 2005.9.16

Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm 
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 160/47

Fun "dominoes".



Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #47
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 278/60


Interesting level with two rows.


Author: Shaggath
Title: V2009 #116 arr.
Date: January 2009
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 317/74

Spectacular ring!



Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #54 arr.
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 289/108

Strange mechanism, more difficult than it seems. As is usual in this kind of puzzles, the difficulty is to place the first box.



Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #74
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 227/61

A little gem!



Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #82 arr.
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 449/70

It is difficult to visualize how to solve it.


Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #139 arr.
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 381/83


Curious puzzle. It is not difficult, but it is really fun.

Shaggath has many very good levels in 5 boxes. I recommend reviewing their collections V2009 and V2010. See especially: V2009 #97, V2010 #31, #53, #57, #60, #66, etc... See also some "lines" in compact puzzles: Mulholland D #13, Mulholland 2 #68 (excellent!), V2009 #86, V2010 #25, V2014 #63...


Author: Morganine
Title: aodlfesq
Comment: posted in Let's Logic (ID 16633)
Date: January 2011
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 172/51

Another little gem! You have to squeeze your imagination to find the free spaces...
By the way, this level seems a remodel of Kevin B. Reilly #1580. 


Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #70
Comment: posted in Let's Logic (ID 16618)
Date: January 2011
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 305/106

Fun puzzle, with a two-tier structure. 



Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 29 #3 arr.
Date: August 2011
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 433/77

Hard! Difficult knot of boxes, you need 333 moves to place the first box. 



Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 34 #4
Date: September 2011
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 609/126


Fantastic "angle"! I think it is a remodel of Kenyam #26. In any case, it is just as good and laborious to solve.


Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 36 #92
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 313/104


Rotary. As usual, the greatest difficulty is to place the first box (231 moves).
Other interesting levels: Revenge 23 #1; 30 #47 (very nice); 31 #39; 34 #63; Magic Sokoban 4 #68...



Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #40
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 220/67


Quasi-compact. It requires subtle maneuvers. Seems a remodel of Kenyam #5: the wheel of interior walls has been replaced by two rooms.



Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #44
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 275/56


Difficult "T". See also Sokomet #16, #28, #59...


Author: Morganine + Jordi Domènech
Title: Magic Sokoban 5 #92
Comment: Sokomet #38 arranged
Date: January 2012. Remodel: September 2013

Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 284/72



Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly 3 #21 Sinuous
Date: February 2012
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 131/40

Fun and beautiful quasi-compact.



Author: David Buchweitz + Jordi Domènech
Title: Magic Sokoban 2 #86 2010 Warmup 4 variation
Comment: based on Chrysalis Collection 1 #47
Date: February 2012. Remodel: April 2012

Website:
letslogic.com/
 
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 336/76



Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #10
Date: December 2013

Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 334/80

Hard! Seemingly simple, it is very difficult to visualize the solution. My rating: 7.5... or 8 :P



Author: Shaggath
Title: V2014 #66
Date: January 2014
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 307/61



Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 3 #69 Theory of Mind
Date: April 2014
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 258/66


03 February 2014

For beginners - First Soko

http://www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokobanJS/sokoban-jd.blogspot/SYASokoban.zip


For beginners!

Download the program Still Yet Another Sokoban and play two excellent collections: "First Soko" (100 levels) of Jordi Doménech, and "Homz Challenge" (80 levels) of Martí Homs.

In total, 180 beautiful levels of difficulty between 0.5 and 5.5/10. If you can solve all the levels, you're an advanced player.


SYASokoban, with:

- "First Soko" (100 levels) of Jordi Doménech
- "Homz Challenge" (80 levels) of Martí Homs