In this post I made a selection of the most interesting and beautiful squares. I also include a selection of "small diamonds" (= square rotated 45°). Condition: the puzzles may have other goals, but independent of the figure, and a maximum of three goals.
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Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Title: 倉庫番2 ("Sokoban 2"; Thinking Rabbit, 1984) #37
Note: published later in Soko-Ban (Spectrum HoloByte, 1988) #44, Sokoban (Game Boy, 1989) #09-07, and Sokoban Perfect (1989) #174
Date: February 1984
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 483/191
The second "square" of Sokoban (the first is the previous level Sokoban 2 #35 = Original #43).
Author: Masaki Nakajo
Title: Sokoban Revenge #199 八点鐘 (Eight o'clock)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 383/141
Excellent storage problem. See another version similar: Ultimate Sokoban (PlayStation, Itochu Corp., 1996), Stage 2 Chapter 2 Level 3.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Title: Ultimate Sokoban (PlayStation, Itochu Corp.), Stage 3 Chapter 3 Level 4
Date: September 1996
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 360/121
Another beautiful level of unknown author.
Author: Jean-Pierre Kent + monry
Title: JPK Levels #11 a
Date: November 1998. Remodel: c. February 1999
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 444/130
Rotary level, with central storage and rooms around, arranged by monry (added a wall and move a box).
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #83 一体問題シリーズ (One problem series)
Date: 1998.12.4
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 192/47
A original storage problem.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #92 どっち？ (Which way?)
Date: 1998.12.13
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 320/89
Another excellent and fun storage problem. Pay attention to the rooms on the left.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #114
Date: 1999.3.22
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 477/92
Remodel of previous monry-light #102. It is the last puzzle in the monry-light series, and perhaps the best of the "squares" of monry, with a difficult storage. Note in the upper-right corner the "mechanism" with a double room and a captive box, that allows the passage from N-S and S-N, changing conveniently the position of the captive box (up/down in the double room).
Monry has a lot of squares. See especially monry-light #6 (good), #11, #26, #34, #38, #43, #53, #102, #104, #106 (the beginning is very weak, but the second part is very good); and FirstStep 801, 803.
Author: Kazuo Fukushima
Title: #2
Date: 1999.7.30
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 101/29
A magical small diamond. Hint: If you move any box of the central "four" in the diamond, the level has no solution :)
Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Nakamiya #8
Note: also published in Monster Sokoban 8-3
Date: July 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 288/67
Beautiful and difficult square. See also Nakamiya #1 (Monster Sokoban 8-4), I think more harder.
Author: Kenyam (Kenya Maruyama)
Title: Kenyam Set A #12 back and forth
Comment:
Tried to make it more difficult, but failed... Anyway, this is yet a relatively difficult one among my SetA works.
Date: c. 2000
Website: www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Domino/7999/soko/skrmc_a.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 325/82
Storage area in the center and rooms around. Surprisingly difficult, despite the fact that the storage area has four entrances.
See also #17, #21 and #39, all three compact and very difficult.
Author: Kevin B. Reilly + Jordi Doménech
Title: kevin465 a
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 3 #20
Comment: reduction and redraw map, added 3 boxes
Date: c. May 2000. Remodel: 2010.8.27
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 527/137
Another nice storage problem.
Author: Howard Abed
Title: SokoCreation #62
Date: c. September 2000
Difficulty: 6 (H.A.)
Best moves/pushes: 95/24
Totally classic: a square within a cross-shaped structure.
See also other versions, more difficult: Sokoban Revenge #135 (Hidemitsu Kobayashi, 9 boxes), #211 (Yoshio Sakae, 9 boxes), and #299 (Hiroshi Inoue, 9 boxes, hard); monry, monry-light #35 (+1 wall), Arpad Fekete #2 (9 boxes), niwa, Houdini II - old (9 boxes and "start with end position", hard), Přemysl Zíka, Secundus gradus ad Olympo #20 (+1 wall).
Author: ZiKo (Zbigniew Kornaś)
Title: Stage #021
Comment:
Final rearranged: 29.9.2000
G4B Month Level (11/2000)
Special thanks to Hirohiko Nakamiya for revieving this level!
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 255/71
Hard. A square inside a ring structure. The biggest problem is how to remove the two boxes below.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 456
Comment: assemble medium
Date: c. 2001
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 164/53
Logic.
Author: GRIGoRusha (Evgeny Grigoriev)
Title: Grigr2001 #66 The doors
Date: November-December 2001
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 363/118
Hard rotary level, with central storage and rooms around.
Author: Marcus Palstra + Jordi Doménech
Title: #1 Look before you leap! b1
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 1 #54 (arr.)
Date: 9.12.2001. Remodel: April 2010 (and rearranged now for this post)
Website:
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2012/12/my-favorite-authors-marcus-palstra_10.html
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 866/214
This puzzle could be entitled "Square pilgrimage": one by one, the boxes walk through all the rooms of the level, to build the square.
Author: GRIGoRusha (Evgeny Grigoriev)
Title: Grigr2002 #103 Colobok
Date: March-November 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 315/83
Exceptional compact! It should assemble and disassemble the square, and at the same time move the boxes at the bottom.
Author: GRIGoRusha (Evgeny Grigoriev)
Title: Grigr2002 #126 Blue Eye
Date: March-November 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 350/109
Amazing! You will need 279/87 moves to place the first box. Very similar to the previous fun level #117 ("Dreams"), but I think this level #126 is a bit more difficult.
See also Grigr2002 #34, GrigrSpecial #8 (hard), GrigrSun #6 "Opened Heart" (extremely hard, I confess that I have not been able to solve it).
Author: François Marques
Title: Le concours du moi - Bonus levels #9 Around the square
Comment:
Ce tableau est un inédit.
Il a été créé spécialement pour les participants au concours du mois d'août 2002 organisé sur le site de sokoban online.
Date: 2002.8.4
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 566/208
Funny and disconcerting rotary level. It seems easy, but it is not. See also compact levels, all difficult: 100 boxes #9; Kokoban #10, #17 and #25. However, my favorite is a big square of 12 boxes: Kokoban #38 "The jail".
Author: Ghislain Martin
Title: SokoStation #175 Nœud marin
Date: 2003.12.31
Website: www.sokoban.fr/
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 76/24
"Marine knot". Logic.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1005
Comment: many-in-goal hard
Date: c. 2004
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 120/29
Hard diamond, but fun and nice to solve.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Calx #19 arr.
Date: July 2005
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 197/48
Hard! Square within a mini cruciform structure. The difficulty is guaranteed. I've taken the liberty of changing the position of two boxes.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Patera #8
Date: July 2005
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 135/24
Funny small diamond at the crossroads of three rings. Another version with four more boxes: Quagmire #43.
Author: Marko Dzekic
Title: Marko Dzekic #1
Date: November 2007
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 378/160
Simple and easy, but disconcerting storage.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #142
Date: c. 2009-2011
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 677/180
Fantastic rotary puzzle.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch X #19
Date: July 2010
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 75/18
Small diamond within a Brigid's cross.
Author: Jordi Doménech
Title: Miniatures - Part Two #24 ZiKo style hard
Date: December 2010
Website:
www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokoban.html
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 492/141
Hard! Recommended only for experienced players :P
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 2 #5 Stockade
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 218/75
Excellent and hard square! In fact, it's a cross-shaped structure, with two arms forming half ring... A lot of changes of wall with the boxes!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 2 #31 Stockade II
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 181/44
Move it! Another amazing square at the intersection of two rings.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 2 #34 Cubic Zirconium
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 253/75
Excellent! A nice and original storage problem. See also from Thomas Reinke, TBox #36 and #48; TBox2 #4 (easy but nice), #7, #15 (good); Anomaly #2; Quagmire 2 #24 and #32.
Author: Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Doménech
Title: Magic Sokoban 5 #64
Comment: based on Dushi 4 #3 Svengali
Date: April 2012. Remodel: September 2013
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 539/156
Another nice and not so easy storage problem.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #267
Date: June 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 151/42
Excellent! Mini rotary puzzle within a pinwheel-shaped structure, with a ninth box of hindrance. Beautiful and fun to solve.
Author: Kevin B. Reilly + Jordi Doménech
Title: Magic Sokoban 3 #72 Homage to Greece
Comment: based on kevin894
Date: c. April 2001. Remodel: 2012.6.17
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 135/39
Logic.
Author: Alberto Garcia + Jordi Doménech
Title: Alberto Garcia remixed #73
Comment: based on Fantasy #41
Date: January 2013
Website:
www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokoban.html
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1334/344
Author: Alberto Garcia + Jordi Doménech
Title: Alberto Garcia remixed #85
Comment: based on Birthday #138
Date: January 2013
Website:
www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokoban.html
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 977/226
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Author: A1master + anian + Jordi Domènech
Title: 1,000,001 candlelights #59 Four dots - b
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 6 #4
Comment:
add a wall - anian
based on version "a", delete all the top, add some walls and redraw map - J.D.
Date: 2014.10.31
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 943/390
In addition to the levels above-mentioned, see also:
- Serg Belyaev
svb062
- Mario Bonenfant
mb-16
- Jordi Doménech
Miniatures - Part One #41, #48, #59; Part Two #12, #15
Magic Sokoban #38; Magic Sokoban 2 #74, #75; Magic Sokoban 3 #25, #43, #52, #86, #90; Magic Sokoban 4 #47; Magic Sokoban 5 #57
The beautiful world of remodels 4 #32, #36
- François Marques
Kokoban #22 The robot
- Ghislain Martin
SokoStation #65, #355
- Ghislain Martin + Jordi Doménech
SokoStation variations #53
- Hirohiko Nakamiya + hir
nakamiya #4 break (B)
- Kevin B. Reilly
Kevin has a lot of squares. The ones I liked more are: kevin391, 465, 488, 949, 1055, 1160, 1172, 1237, 1281, 1347, 1390, 1416, 1428, 1440, 1447, 1524, 1555, 1573, 1597, 1603, 1607, 1619, 1684 (hard), 1713, 1714, 1816, 1820, 1829, 1852 (curious), 1888, 1930, 1968, 1970, 2005, 2008, 2023, 2042
- Thomas Reinke
Quagmire 3 #17, #43, #55, #93, #95, #97
- Shaggath
Mulholland D #54
- David W. Skinner
Microban II #108, #114; Sasquatch II #34, V #13, IX #26
- Thinking Rabbit
Original #43
Sokoban 2 (GameBoy, 1990) 11-10
Sokoban Perfect #139 (Koji Kono), #197 (Yoshio Sakae), #268 (Yoshio Sakae)
Sokoban Revenge #38 (Hidemitsu Kobayashi), #54 (Yoshiki Kondo + Yoshio Sakae)
- niwa
Escapology #6, #9
Square Dance #4 (easy but nice), #10
- Hiroshi Yamamoto #4 回流
