08 April 2017

Beautiful arrangements: The "Original" collection

I have selected 20 arrangements of the "Original" collection (Spectrum HoloByte, 1988).
 

You can download all puzzles here:






Author: Masato Hiramatsu (Hir)
Title: 閉め出されたラビくん (Mr. Rabbi was shut out)
Set: Arranged levels by Hir #3
Comment: based on Sokoban Revenge (1991) #1 by Seiichi Katsurada
Date: 1998.8.16 (create), 1998.8.21
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 448/107

Original arrangement. Is the level of Sokoban Revenge #1 by Seiichi Katsurada, surrounded by an exterior wall, and the player out of the puzzle: it is not easy to enter inside.



Author: anian + Jordi Domènech
Title: Sokoban 30th anniversary 1980-2010
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 1 #27
Comment: integration of the
word "Sokoban" by anian in Original #1
Date: March 2010
URL: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2012/03/sokoban-30th-anniversary-1982-2012.html
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 828/327 (Findus)

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of Sokoban.



Author: anian + Jordi Domènech + zhenying
Title: Sokoban 30th anniversary 1982-2012
Comment: based on The beautiful world of remodels 1 #27 Sokoban 30th anniversary 1980-2010
Date: March 2010. Remodel: 2012.3.28
URL: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/7745191820123643317569/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 509/162 (Findus)

... And the original arrangement of zhenying.



Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Sasquatch XII #22 Original level #1 revised
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 4 #60
Comment: added 3 boxes, stoned 2 floors
Date: February 2012. Remodel: 2012.3.2
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 696/272

Just put a little attention in the storage.



Author: Thinking Rabbit + A1master
Title: 1,000,002 candlelights #9 FoRResT House (Thinking Rabbit tribute)
Date: 2014.11.12
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 430/128 (Tiaoa)

Difficult storage!



Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Magic Sokoban 6 #21 Original #1 reverse
Date: June 2015
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 356/115

Well, a reverse version... It is not as easy as it seems :)



Author: Howard Abed
Title: Remodel of original level 15
Set: Fourth Set #34
Comment: based on Original #15, added 9 boxes
Date: c. March 2001
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 580/173 (Findus)

GRIGoRusha and zhenying have arrangements of similar difficulty, but perhaps this one of Howard is tighter. See also the elegant arrangement of Sokoban Revenge (1991) #231 by Takahiro Suzushima, with 4 boxes more.



Author: Masato Hiramatsu (Hir)
Title: Sokoban Revenge Level 195 arranged
Set: Arranged levels by Hir #9
First release: Sokoban 2 (1984) #6, then Original (1988) #16, Sokoban Perfect (1989) #216 and Sokoban Revenge (1991) #195
arranged by Masaki Ishino
Comment:
MI: based on SP #216 (= Original #16), stoned 2 floors
Hir: based on SR #195, added 1 box, 1 wall
Date: 1984, 1991. Remodel: 1998.1.9
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 645/235 

Excellent arrangement! Just add a box and a wall, but it is an entirely different puzzle.



Author: Howard Abed
Title: Remodel of original level 18
Set: Fourth Set #42
Comment: based on Original #18, added 6 boxes
Date: c. March 2001
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 707/169 

Tight! As in Original #15 arrangement, Howard chooses to add the greatest number of boxes as possible, without changing the structure.



Author: Thinking Rabbit + Jordi Domènech + anian + Tian Lang
Title: MF8 7th Sokoban Competition (October, 2009) a
Comment:
TL: added 2 boxes, moved 3 goals of the central area and shape the number "七"
Date: 2009.9.30 (MF8 7th Sokoban Competition). Remodel: 2009.10.25 (TL)
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=41064&extra=page%3D3
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 2806/971

The goals of the central area are the Chinese number 七 ("7"). This level is based on Original remixed #20, but rotated counterclockwise as in Sokoban 2 (1984) #10 (= Sokoban Perfect #226).

Puzzle very beautiful and interesting to solve. The biggest difficulty is the closure, with the ingenious change in the location of the goals introduced by Tian Lang.

The level of the MF8 7th Sokoban Competition, easier, is here.



Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Original remixed #21
Comment: added 4 boxes, major changes
Date: September 2009
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 464/153

Three different problems.



Author: GRIGoRusha
Title: grigr2001 #78 Original conversion (22)
Comment: added 9 boxes, major changes
Date: December 2001
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1764/651 (Sokobano)

Nice storage!



Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Original remixed #23
Comment: added 9 boxes, rearranged goals
Date: September 2009
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 583/229

Change the boxes to the opposite wall. Another classic.



Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #284 a (arr.)
First release: Sokoban 2 (1984) #43; then Original (1988) #29, Sokoban Perfect (1989) #284
Comment: added 1 box
Date: 1984. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 561/203

This is the first level "two rows" of Sokoban and also the first in which they are used unequivocally rooms with sliding boxes. There are more than 30 arrangements of this classic level (see versions here), but I choose this one of York Shen, with a box more, which greatly increases the difficulty. I've slightly arranged the map (upper-left corner). The arrangement is also valid for the original level :)



Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Microban IV variations #14
Comment: based on Microban IV #46, added 1 box, 3 walls
Date: August 2010. Remodel: 2010.8.31
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 347/86

Mini version, but not easy.



Author: Jean-Pierre Kent
Title: Level 24
Comment: inspired in Sokoban Perfect #246 (Original #30 modified)
Date: November 1998
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 1365/551 (Archanfel)

Simple and nice.



Author: Yoshiki Kondo + zhenying
Title: Sokoban Perfect #224 a
Comment: based on SP #224 (= Original #42), major changes
Date: 1989. Remodel: 2007.12.2
URL: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/77451918200852822415514/
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 731/323

Nice storage.



Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + GRIGoRusha
Title: originalsokoban48c - Thinking Rabbit Original Sokoban level
Set: Remodel Club #31
First release: Sokoban 2 (1984) #2, then Original (1988) #48
Comment: added 1 box
Date: 1984. Remodel: 2003.6.24
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 494/227 (Wolfgang Haas)

Problem: undo the knot of boxes below.



Author: Howard Abed
Title: Remodel of original level 55
Set: Fourth Set #36
Comment: based on XSokoban #55 (Original #50 arranged), added 4 boxes, some changes
Date: c. March 2001
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 738/268

Simple but original.



Author: Lena Pankratova + zhenying
Title: SokoMan 2 #47 a (arr.)
Comment: inspired in Original #50
zhenying: added 1 box
Date: December 1999. Remodel: 2007.1.21
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 948/357 

Creative version of Original #50 by Lena Pankratova. I have arranged the map of zhenying's version. SokoMan 2 #50 and 3 #50 are also inspired in Original #50, all of them arranged by zhenying.

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