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25 January 2015
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Sokoban lessons - Big squares
Conditions:
- Size squares 4 x 4 goals or greater. The whole perimeter of the squares is formed by a continuous series of goals.
See also "Tiny squares" and "Squares and small diamonds".
In this selection I do not include "rings", which I reserve for another post.
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Title: Sokoban (SEGA) #85
Date: December 1985. Then in Sokoban Perfect (1989) #117
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 357/140
Original square fifty-fifty of author unknown. See another interesting version in Ultimate Sokoban (1996, Itochu Corp.) Stage 4 Chapter 2 Level 6.
Author: Eiji Takeuchi
Title: Sokoban Revenge #118 マグカップ (Mug)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 182/84 (Georgi Georgiev)
Difficult "mug"! We must pay special attention in the first moves...
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #151 回転木馬 (Carousel)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1296/320
Excellent puzzle, with the windmill-shaped storage area and rooms around. It is a remodel of Sokoban Perfect #128, also of the own Yoshio Sakae.
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #274 めまい (Dizziness)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1019/342
Yoshio Sakae is an author of few puzzles of storage, but all are excellent. In addition to the previous one, I choose this. If you solve it on the first try, you're a crack.
Author: monry
Title: Ichimatsu series 3
Set: monry #10
Comment: from BanSoko 145
Date: 1992.2.12
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 177/74
Ichimatsu is a series of 6 squares, progressively larger, up to 19 x 19 and 144 boxes. The boxes are arranged in chessboard, and the player start in the center. The solution technique is similar in all. I recommend to start with the square smaller, Ichimatsu series 1, which I do not know why, it seems to me the more difficult.
York Shen made two enlargements of Ichimatsu series 6, and GRIGoRusha added 3 boxes to Ichimatsu series 3, but I think it is easier than the original.
Author: monry
Title: ホームズの推理 (Holmes' reasoning)
Set: monry #24
Date: 1992.3.16
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 68/24
Logical.
Author: Sven Egevad + Marek Letrab + zhenying + Jordi Domènech
Title: SE 10 a3
Comment:
four floors replaced by four boxes - M.L.
major changes - zhenying
stoned a floor, move a box - J.D.
Date: 1992. Remodel: 2008.5.8 zhenying, 2014.11.22 J.D.
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1685/512
Special remodel for this post :) I am happy for having contributed a bit to this old and excellent puzzle of Sven Egevad.
Author: J. Franklin Mentzer
Title: Still more! #32
Date: 1993
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1072/386
Ahhh nostalgia!... After the Original collection, this was my next collection of Sokoban...
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #36
Date: 1998.10.25
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 557/153
Central storage area and rooms around. Excellent!
Author: Jean-Pierre Kent
Title: JPK Levels #63
Date: November 1998
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1288/455 (lsdzxy)
Fantastic puzzle, one of the best in this collection! See also #8 and #40, this last already published in "Storage: One entrance".
Author: Kazuo Fukushima + monry
Title: (untitled)
Date: 1999.2.1
Comment: published in the Japanese mailing list Sokoban-ML
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 176/24
Transport this box! Excellent remodel from a simple puzzle of Kazuo.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch III #31
Date: June 2000
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 420/114 (G. Lyapko + W. Haas)
Entertaining maze. There is a York Shen remodel with 4 more boxes.
Author: François Marques
Title: Kokoban #38 The jail
Date: August 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 217/54
Spectacular compact! A square inside a cross-shaped structure. The difficulty is guaranteed.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha) + Hu Yibin
Title: #9
Comment: From GRIGoRusha #11
Date: November 2001. Remodel: 2005.4.2, 2005.5.18
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 136/47
Windmill-shaped structure. Is a remodel of Grigr2001 #11 Krenol.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2001 #40 Rebus
Date: November 2001
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 697/214 (lsdzxy)
Well, it's a "broken" square, but it is one of my favorite levels in this set.
Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Sasquatch V #31 a
Comment: stoned 5 floors
Date: December 2001. Remodel: 2014.11.25
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 778/308 (Mark)
Fun windmill. Special remodel for this post! See also Skinner's previous level #30, similar though more easy, and Sasquatch XI #19.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch V #46
Date: December 2001
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1378/328 (Georgi Georgiev)
Fantastic maze!
Author: François Marques
Title: The grid - Le concurs du mois de mai 2002
Date: 2002.2.11
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 166/58 (Philippe Lamat)
Difficult! Take it calmly.
Author: David Holland
Title: bagatelle2 #6 midblock7
Date: July 2002
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 263/92
A broken square inside a windmill-shaped structure. The most interesting is that the four arms are irregular.
Author: XiBei Tian Lang
Title: 初涉江湖 (ChuSheJiangHu)
Comment: TL01
Date: c. April 2003
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 235/50
It is the first puzzle of a series of six small squares, all of them of maximum difficulty.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1604
Comment: assemble hard
Date: 2006
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1108/319 (yutaka yamada)
Hard! We must sweat to take out the first box...
Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Microban variations III #22
Comment: based on Microban III #46, added 2 boxes
Date: December 2009. Remodel: 2010.10.7
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 353/108 (Findus)
The "X"! A square inside a structure in stepped X-shape.
Author: zhenying
Title: WeiMingMing01c
Date: 2010.2.27
Website: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 948/290
Funny. See also the puzzle "a07", an enlarged version.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #240
Date: April 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 7.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 1794/588 (Archanfel)
Incredibly hard! It is necessary to do a lot of maneuvers, both in the snail-storage as in the cargo area. One of the best puzzles in this series. My difficulty rating: 8.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #253
Date: May 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 841/255 (Archanfel + TIAOA)
Hard from the beginning to the end!
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #27 Squaring the circle
Date: 2013.9.25
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1967/524
Interesting and fun to solve rotatory puzzle.
Note: These puzzles are not included in the downloadable file
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Author: Andrej Cerjak
Title: AC Smileys 2 #94
Date: September 2015
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 366/126
In addition to the levels above-mentioned, see also:
- Howard Abed
SokoCreation #17
- Jordi Domènech
Miniatures - Part Two #1
The beautiful world of remodels 1 #42, 43; 2 #59; 5 #34
Chrysalis variations #26, 52, 67
Microban variations III #26
SokoStation variations #56, 57
- Bruno Druille
Tableau 90
- dzxmer
Panda 92 #23
- Sven Egevad
SE 242, 824, 842 (see remodel of York Shen), 859, 871, 1055, 1602
- gyjgw
20070924
- David Holland
dh2 #2 (see remodel of York Shen), 10
Maelstrom Collection #10
- Jean-Pierre Kent
#6, 8, 24, 35 (see remodel of monry)
- Aleksey Krupenko
Room 7, 27, 34, 63
- Ghislain Martin
SokoStation #26, 184 (see remodel of Marek Letrab +4 boxes), 196
- J. Franklin Mentzer
Still more! #1, 9, 24
- Kevin B. Reilly
#14 (see remodel of Jordi Domènech + stopheart)
- Erim Sever
erim174
- David W. Skinner
Sasquatch IV #34; XI #6; XII #33
- skippy + Archanfel
Snowflake
- Eric F. Tchong
Chuchubi 1 #45, 62
- Thinking Rabbit
Sokoban Perfect #73 (Hachiro Kajiwara), 102 (Yasuhiro Morita), 116, 137 (Yasuhiro Morita), 142, 214, 229
Sokoban Revenge #59 (arranged by York Shen, difficult), 90 (Yasuhiro Morita; see remodel of York Shen), 144 (Yoshio Sakae), 248 (Takahiro Suzushima), 271 (Yoshio Sakae)
Ultimate Sokoban, Stage 2 Chapter 3 Level 1
- TIAOA
SBMendonca 03 L24 (arranged by anian)
SBMendonca 04 LL19 (arranged by Archanfel), LL32
- Přemysl Zíka
Primus gradus ad Olympo #100
Secundus gradus ad Olympo #70
- Size squares 4 x 4 goals or greater. The whole perimeter of the squares is formed by a continuous series of goals.
See also "Tiny squares" and "Squares and small diamonds".
In this selection I do not include "rings", which I reserve for another post.
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Title: Sokoban (SEGA) #85
Date: December 1985. Then in Sokoban Perfect (1989) #117
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 357/140
Original square fifty-fifty of author unknown. See another interesting version in Ultimate Sokoban (1996, Itochu Corp.) Stage 4 Chapter 2 Level 6.
Author: Eiji Takeuchi
Title: Sokoban Revenge #118 マグカップ (Mug)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 182/84 (Georgi Georgiev)
Difficult "mug"! We must pay special attention in the first moves...
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #151 回転木馬 (Carousel)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1296/320
Excellent puzzle, with the windmill-shaped storage area and rooms around. It is a remodel of Sokoban Perfect #128, also of the own Yoshio Sakae.
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #274 めまい (Dizziness)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1019/342
Yoshio Sakae is an author of few puzzles of storage, but all are excellent. In addition to the previous one, I choose this. If you solve it on the first try, you're a crack.
Author: monry
Title: Ichimatsu series 3
Set: monry #10
Comment: from BanSoko 145
Date: 1992.2.12
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 177/74
Ichimatsu is a series of 6 squares, progressively larger, up to 19 x 19 and 144 boxes. The boxes are arranged in chessboard, and the player start in the center. The solution technique is similar in all. I recommend to start with the square smaller, Ichimatsu series 1, which I do not know why, it seems to me the more difficult.
York Shen made two enlargements of Ichimatsu series 6, and GRIGoRusha added 3 boxes to Ichimatsu series 3, but I think it is easier than the original.
Author: monry
Title: ホームズの推理 (Holmes' reasoning)
Set: monry #24
Date: 1992.3.16
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 68/24
Logical.
Author: Sven Egevad + Marek Letrab + zhenying + Jordi Domènech
Title: SE 10 a3
Comment:
four floors replaced by four boxes - M.L.
major changes - zhenying
stoned a floor, move a box - J.D.
Date: 1992. Remodel: 2008.5.8 zhenying, 2014.11.22 J.D.
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1685/512
Special remodel for this post :) I am happy for having contributed a bit to this old and excellent puzzle of Sven Egevad.
Author: J. Franklin Mentzer
Title: Still more! #32
Date: 1993
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1072/386
Ahhh nostalgia!... After the Original collection, this was my next collection of Sokoban...
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #36
Date: 1998.10.25
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 557/153
Central storage area and rooms around. Excellent!
Author: Jean-Pierre Kent
Title: JPK Levels #63
Date: November 1998
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1288/455 (lsdzxy)
Fantastic puzzle, one of the best in this collection! See also #8 and #40, this last already published in "Storage: One entrance".
Author: Kazuo Fukushima + monry
Title: (untitled)
Date: 1999.2.1
Comment: published in the Japanese mailing list Sokoban-ML
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 176/24
Transport this box! Excellent remodel from a simple puzzle of Kazuo.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch III #31
Date: June 2000
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 420/114 (G. Lyapko + W. Haas)
Entertaining maze. There is a York Shen remodel with 4 more boxes.
Author: François Marques
Title: Kokoban #38 The jail
Date: August 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 217/54
Spectacular compact! A square inside a cross-shaped structure. The difficulty is guaranteed.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha) + Hu Yibin
Title: #9
Comment: From GRIGoRusha #11
Date: November 2001. Remodel: 2005.4.2, 2005.5.18
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 136/47
Windmill-shaped structure. Is a remodel of Grigr2001 #11 Krenol.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2001 #40 Rebus
Date: November 2001
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 697/214 (lsdzxy)
Well, it's a "broken" square, but it is one of my favorite levels in this set.
Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Sasquatch V #31 a
Comment: stoned 5 floors
Date: December 2001. Remodel: 2014.11.25
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 778/308 (Mark)
Fun windmill. Special remodel for this post! See also Skinner's previous level #30, similar though more easy, and Sasquatch XI #19.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch V #46
Date: December 2001
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1378/328 (Georgi Georgiev)
Fantastic maze!
Author: François Marques
Title: The grid - Le concurs du mois de mai 2002
Date: 2002.2.11
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 166/58 (Philippe Lamat)
Difficult! Take it calmly.
Author: David Holland
Title: bagatelle2 #6 midblock7
Date: July 2002
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 263/92
A broken square inside a windmill-shaped structure. The most interesting is that the four arms are irregular.
Author: XiBei Tian Lang
Title: 初涉江湖 (ChuSheJiangHu)
Comment: TL01
Date: c. April 2003
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 235/50
It is the first puzzle of a series of six small squares, all of them of maximum difficulty.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1604
Comment: assemble hard
Date: 2006
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1108/319 (yutaka yamada)
Hard! We must sweat to take out the first box...
Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Microban variations III #22
Comment: based on Microban III #46, added 2 boxes
Date: December 2009. Remodel: 2010.10.7
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 353/108 (Findus)
The "X"! A square inside a structure in stepped X-shape.
Author: zhenying
Title: WeiMingMing01c
Date: 2010.2.27
Website: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 948/290
Funny. See also the puzzle "a07", an enlarged version.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #240
Date: April 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 7.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 1794/588 (Archanfel)
Incredibly hard! It is necessary to do a lot of maneuvers, both in the snail-storage as in the cargo area. One of the best puzzles in this series. My difficulty rating: 8.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #253
Date: May 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 841/255 (Archanfel + TIAOA)
Hard from the beginning to the end!
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #27 Squaring the circle
Date: 2013.9.25
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1967/524
Interesting and fun to solve rotatory puzzle.
New additions
Note: These puzzles are not included in the downloadable file
# #
# $$$ $ #
# $ $ $ #
# ## $$ ###
# # #### # #
# .... * ##
## *#*##*# #
# #.##.#* #
## * .*.+ #
# # ## # #
### * * ##
# #
#######
Author: Andrej Cerjak
Title: AC Smileys 2 #94
Date: September 2015
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 366/126
In addition to the levels above-mentioned, see also:
- Howard Abed
SokoCreation #17
- Jordi Domènech
Miniatures - Part Two #1
The beautiful world of remodels 1 #42, 43; 2 #59; 5 #34
Chrysalis variations #26, 52, 67
Microban variations III #26
SokoStation variations #56, 57
- Bruno Druille
Tableau 90
- dzxmer
Panda 92 #23
- Sven Egevad
SE 242, 824, 842 (see remodel of York Shen), 859, 871, 1055, 1602
- gyjgw
20070924
- David Holland
dh2 #2 (see remodel of York Shen), 10
Maelstrom Collection #10
- Jean-Pierre Kent
#6, 8, 24, 35 (see remodel of monry)
- Aleksey Krupenko
Room 7, 27, 34, 63
- Ghislain Martin
SokoStation #26, 184 (see remodel of Marek Letrab +4 boxes), 196
- J. Franklin Mentzer
Still more! #1, 9, 24
- Kevin B. Reilly
#14 (see remodel of Jordi Domènech + stopheart)
- Erim Sever
erim174
- David W. Skinner
Sasquatch IV #34; XI #6; XII #33
- skippy + Archanfel
Snowflake
- Eric F. Tchong
Chuchubi 1 #45, 62
- Thinking Rabbit
Sokoban Perfect #73 (Hachiro Kajiwara), 102 (Yasuhiro Morita), 116, 137 (Yasuhiro Morita), 142, 214, 229
Sokoban Revenge #59 (arranged by York Shen, difficult), 90 (Yasuhiro Morita; see remodel of York Shen), 144 (Yoshio Sakae), 248 (Takahiro Suzushima), 271 (Yoshio Sakae)
Ultimate Sokoban, Stage 2 Chapter 3 Level 1
- TIAOA
SBMendonca 03 L24 (arranged by anian)
SBMendonca 04 LL19 (arranged by Archanfel), LL32
- Přemysl Zíka
Primus gradus ad Olympo #100
Secundus gradus ad Olympo #70
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