As in other Sokoban lessons, in this selection of puzzles of seven boxes (with rooms), I tried to choose levels fun to solve, and that the most of authors will be represented.
An author highlights in a special way: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha). All its levels of seven boxes are excellent, small jewels.
See also "Lines (5-8 boxes)".
With regard to the concept of "room", see the explanation in "Sokoban lessons - Three boxes (with rooms)".
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: Takahiro Suzushima
Title: Soukoban (Riverhill Soft, Game Gear) #256
Date: December 1990. Published later in Sokoban Revenge (1991) #40 Relaxation
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 540/189
Beautiful level with three columns and storage area.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #59 直四と直三 (Three and four straight)
Date: 1998.11.15
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 503/113
Simple level, but not obvious.
Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Nakamiya #07
Comment: published also in Monster Sokoban 7-7
Date: c. July 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 212/34
Logic level. It seems easy, but it is not...
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Picokosmos #3
Subtitle: Prison (Jail)
Comment: Pour sortir de la prison, ça va. Mais pour la reconstruire,
c'est autre chose.
Date: September 2001
Website (mirror): www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 9 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 191/49
A pseudo square inside a cross-shaped structure... If it rains and do not know what to do, you can entertain yourself with this one.
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Picokosmos #13
Subtitle: Bateau (boat)
Comment: Le thème du sablier ou des vases communicants. Pas de problème
d'espace, mais il faut tout de même trouver le bon chemin.
Date: November 2001
Website (mirror): www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 9 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 191/78
Two halves... Try not to spend your life moving boxes from one half to another... My difficulty rating: 7.5.
Author: David Holland + Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha) + François Marques
Title: bagatelle #10 bis
Date: 2002.5.8
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 364/79
Very elegant remodel of François Marques. Later remodels of this level by GRIGoRusha would result in #127 Ziko-City.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #120 Depth
Date: July 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 488/154
Nice rotatory level with storage in the center.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #121 Honour
Date: July 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 574/174
Fantastic rotatory level! Try not to spend hours and hours rotating the boxes around... See also the similar level GrigrSpecial #15, perhaps a little more difficult.
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #33 Chair and table
Date: December 2003
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 217/46
Amazing level, much more difficult than it seems.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrSpecial #13 Soldafon
Date: March 2004
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 398/121
This puzzle and the next are very studied and difficult levels with non-obvious moves.
Author: Nakamiya + Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrSpecial #14 Lost Hunter
Comment: for Nakamiya
Date: March 2004
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 393/106
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: 81 #20
Date: November 2004
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 124/19
Simple and beautiful logic level.
Author: Kevin B. Reilly
Title: #2021
Date: c. 2005
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 109/24
Not too difficult, but very nice.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #14
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 259/47
These four levels of TBox5 are little jewels. Incredibly good and fun to solve!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #26
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 262/65
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #39
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 489/112
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #40
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 391/114
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrSpecial02a
Set: Remodel Club #88
Date: 2005.10.6
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 638/148
Incredible miniature "six+"! Obviously, the biggest problem is to place the box in D4 - and then build the "six". To do this, you must keep open the puzzle, to be able to turn around. The problem is: where to place the 6 remaining boxes?
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrStar #14 First Goal
Date: 2006.1.15
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 393/111
Goals = number "1". Minimalist storage, it needs subtle moves. Fun to solve.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrStar #27 Good House
Date: 2008.1.25
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 324/109
Beautiful level and fun storage!
Author: Edwin Abbot
Title: Flatland #3
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 343/115
Technically, is not a perfect level, because the only difficulty is to place the first box. It is the same defect that other levels in this excellent collection. However, it is not at all easy.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #133
Date: 2011
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 457/130
Simple and fun rotatory level, in the clasic Přemysl Zíka style.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 2 #35 Pardon the Interruption
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 335/87
Small nitghmare. Take it calmly.
The best puzzles of 7 boxes of Thomas Reinke are "lines": see TBox2 #8 and Quagmire3 #32 and #90, posted in "Lines (5-8 boxes)".
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 35 #16
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 228/69
Marcus Hof has other puzzles of 7 boxes more difficult, but these four simple levels are my favorites.
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 36 #36 arr.
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 291/87
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 36 #122
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 486/166
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 38 #55
Date: May 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 481/106
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #49
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 424/159
Fun storage level.
Author: David Buchweitz + Jordi Domènech
Title: Chrysalis Collection 8 #13 a
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 5 #40
Websites:
www.letslogic.com
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Date: 2013.11.13
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 391/54
Logic.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #19
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 231/82
Strange pinwheel.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Tertius gradus ad Olympo #10
Date: I.2014-XI.2015
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 554/127
Excellent! It is a puzzle that could sign Yoshio Sakae.
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #23 'r1'
Date: January 2015
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 559/100
Fun storage level. The great difficulty is that there is always a box of hindrance in the storage area...
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #25 Picasso
Date: January 2015
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 636/97
Tricky level... Really, it looks like a face of Picasso...
Author: Morganine
Title: Randoms #41
Date: July 2015
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 404/102
Claustrophobic level with several non-obvious moves.
Author: Morganine
Title: Randoms #71 arr.
Date: July 2015
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 407/103
Level of ugly look, but surprising: is more complicated than it seems.
Other puzzles
- Edwin Abbot 2
- Serg Belyaev
svb382
- Kevin Cassol
SokoChallenge 13
- Jordi Domènech
Magic Sokoban 1 43 (Kevin Cassol)
The beautiful world of remodels 5 40
Alberto Garcia remixed 59
- Sven Egevad
SE 804
- Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Grigr2001 37
GrigrSpecial 15, 20 (see also Remodel Club 93), 25
GrigrStar 8
GrigrSun 5
Remodel Club 68, 92, 96, 105
- Marcus Hof
Revenge 22 3; 30 17, 25; 36 36, 103, 116, 118; 37 41
- David Holland
cantrip2 3
- Morganine
Randoms 6, 82
- Yoshio Murase
handmade 35
- František Pokorný 51
- Kevin B. Reilly 1506
- Thomas Reinke
TBox 49, 50
TBox5 13, 28
Calx 7
Anomaly2 27
Quagmire2 17, 21, 47
Quagmire3 23
- Shaggath
V2009 144
V2010 151
V2014 19
- David W. Skinner
Sasquatch XI 11
- Keijo Sopuli
KEAS Collection 14
- Eric F. Tchong
Atlas4 12
- Thinking Rabbit
Sokoban Perfect 190 (Hidemitsu Kobayashi), 230
- Přemysl Zíka
Primus Gradus ad Olympo 46, 48
Secundus Gradus ad Olympo 17
Tertius Gradus ad Olympo 11
There are many good puzzles of 6 boxes (with rooms), and really it is very difficult to make a selection. I recommend see below the list "Other puzzles".
As in other post, I have tried that there are represented most of authors, styles and difficulties.
See also:
- Six
- Lines (5-8 boxes)
With regard to the concept of "room", see the explanation in "Sokoban lessons - Three boxes (with rooms)".
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: Masaki Ishino
Title: Sokoban Perfect #294
Date: 1989
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 154/57
Three rooms identical in T-shape. Classic problem of storage and nice puzzle.
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #208 パバーヌ (Pavane)
Date: 1991. First publication: Sokoban Deluxe (1990) #5-B
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 251/84
Double rotation of the boxes: the boxes on the left rotate clockwise, and the boxes to the right in the reverse direction. Hence perhaps the name of "Pavane", the slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century. This nice theme has also been treated, among others, by Hirohiko Nakamiya, Joy levels #1; David W. Skinner, Sasquatch IV #9, and Microban III #8; Přemysl Zíka, Primus gradus ad Olympo #52...
Author: Yoshio Murase + Masato Hiramatsu
Title: handmade #18 激戦区 (Battleground)
Comment:
自動作成でできた面、yos_weeklyの13面と17面を繋げて改造したものです。
この「連結法」は、簡単な面の難易度を上げる、お手軽な手法ですね。
私、村瀬が原形を作り、平松さんが修正しました。
広さ35、荷物6、荷物率17.1%です。
Date: 1998.1.28 (created), 1998.2.4 左上のスペースを削除、ゴールの位置変更。
Website: www.ne.jp/asahi/ai/yoshio/sokoban/index.html
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 156/51
Really nice. Typical puzzle divided in two halves (in the style of handmade #1).
Author: Yoshio Murase
Title: handmade #23 イヌ (Dog)
Comment:
yos_weeklyの18と19の合体です。
前者の面の形は、自動生成の際には出現しやすいようです。
すなわち、評価が高くなりやすい形ということになります。
「それはなぜか？」と考えつつ作りました。
Date: c. 1999
Website: www.ne.jp/asahi/ai/yoshio/sokoban/index.html
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 87/26
Simple and beautiful. This "dog" seems that it barks very much, but does not bite: you only have to pay attention in the first moves.
Author: François Marques
Title: Sokompact #32 Hexa ban 7
Date: March 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 150/38
Nice miniature, with a vaguely cross shaped structure.
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Picokosmos #1
Subtitle: Fleur (Flower)
Comment:
J'ai eu beaucoup de mal à créer ce premier niveau pour ne pas rater
l'entame de cette série. Je me suis inspiré au départ de Minicosmos 30.
Cela semble si près d'être résolu... et pourtant!
Date: September 2001
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 8.75 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 207/67
Interesting puzzle "fix one", with a complex structure of four rooms. My difficulty rating: 7.
Author: David Holland
Title: bagatelle #10 diode1
Date: October 2001
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 251/66
Rotary puzzle with a double problem: place a box in D7 and build the parallel.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2001 #65 Ugolok
Date: November 2001
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 188/52
Puzzle relatively easy, in comparison with another 6-boxes of GRIGoRusha, but very nice and fun to solve.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #101 Double choice
Date: March 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 488/138
Fantastic labyrinth of 6 rooms! If you don't put much attention, the "deadlock" are continuous ... Maybe it's one of the best puzzles in this style.
See also a remodel of this puzzle: GrigrSpecial #1, and an interesting version of this latter: svb485 of Serg Belyaev.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #107 Return
Date: May 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 540/119
Really funny and nice. It is strange that in your website GRIGoRusha does not highlight this puzzle among their "best levels". In my opinion, it is excellent.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #137 SokoSutra
Date: November 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 421/124
Rotary. Difficult until the last box! :P
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 982
Comment: many-in-goal hard
Date: 2004
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 273/44
Simple but nice and fun level "fix one".
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #61 3+3
Date: 2004.10.1
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 248/48
Fantastic miniature!
Author: Kenyam (Kenya Maruyama)
Title: #40 Gyruss
Comment:
Originally, the goal area of Mini Detour (SetA #36) was created as a single level like this. This is an extended version, more difficult.
Date: 2004.11.20
Website: www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Domino/7999/soko/skrmc_a.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 179/60
Exceptional "six" quasi-compact and vaguely windmill-shaped structure in the bottom half.
I realize now that, except #1 (a "line") and #5, all of the puzzles of Kenyam of 6 boxes (with rooms) are "sixes": see #16, 18, 23, 40, 41, 43. Thus, I publish here this level #40, which also included in "Sokoban lessons - Six".
The level #5 is relatively easy and has a structure similar to Microcosmos #12 of Aymeric du Peloux: the placement of the four interior walls is identical.
Author: Lee J. Haywood
Title: SokHard #102 Kaylee (arr.)
Date: January 2005
Website: leehaywood.org/games/sokoban/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 716/231
Fun storage with rooms around.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: gri135a
Set: Remodel Club #76
Comment: added 2 walls
Date (remodel): 2005.5.3
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 486/142
Rotary puzzle with rooms in three corners. It is a remodel (more difficult) of Grigr2002 #135. Hard and nice to solve!
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrStar #1 Star forces
Date: 2005.9.18
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 378/106
Two "sliding doors" at the top and storage at the bottom. Seemingly simple, but difficult to visualize.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #20
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 202/39
Original and fun "line", with a "switch" on the left side.
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #95 1,2,3
Date: 2005.9.18
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 215/59
Another little gem!
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #93 Claw
Date: 2005.12.2
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 213/66
Amazing miniature!
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrStar #26 Overturn
Date: 2008.1.24
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 331/89
Hard! Recommended for fans of claustrophobic spaces and subtle maneuvers.
Author: Edwin Abbot
Title: Flatland #1
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 295/86
T-shaped structure, with interesting changes of wall.
Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #124
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 298/78
Seemingly simple, but it is difficult to visualize the solution.
Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #128
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 281/86
Easy but nice.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Microban IV #32
Date: August 2010
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 177/76
Change the boxes to the opposite wall! :) See also #30.
Author: Kevin Cassol
Title: Magic Sokoban #68
Date: June 2011
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 395/86
It seems easy but you have to work it.
Author: Kevin Cassol
Title: Magic Sokoban #69
Date: June 2011
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 158/32
A magic line!
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 28 #26 arr.
Date: July 2011
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 244/51
Amazing line+ !
Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #66
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 444/93
Difficult! There is what to put and remove the boxes once and again in the storage area.
Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #68
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 315/96
Amazing rotary puzzle!
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #185
Comment: Joke problem
Date: February 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1595/280
Fantastic maze with a "switch" in the crossroads. See other similar "artifacts", more complicated: #186 to #190.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly 3 #9 Gryphon
Date: February 2012
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 231/50
Difficult twins!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly 3 #42 Celebrity
Date: February 2012
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 196/46
Extreme miniature. It is necessary to do delicate moves to solve this.
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 38 #18 arr.
Date: May 2012
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 543/129
Strange structure and difficult to solve. There are several moves nothing obvious.
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #28 Tangled
Date: March 2014
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1006/128
Fantastic maze! Really tangled!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 3 #79 My Very Eyes
Date: April 2014
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 319/67
Incredible level! A lot of difficult maneuvers!
Other puzzles
- Serg Belyaev
svb019, 186, 262, 269, 291, 292, 337, 374, 391, 418, 435, 461, 469, 475, 485, 490, 492, 494
- Jordi Domènech
Magic Sokoban #72, 77, 86, 88; 2 #65, 81, 98; 3 #62, 99; 4 #82; 5 #60, 79, 82, 101
- Sven Egevad
SE 100, 1396
- Evgeny Grigoriev
Grigr2001 #34, 65, 73
Grigr2002 #108, 115, 118, 138
GrigrSpecial #1, 3, 19
GrigrStar #16, 20
- Lee J. Haywood
SokHard #54
- Marcus Hof
Revenge 27 #15; 32 #45; 33 #9, 16; 34 #64; 37 #76, 89, 106; 38 #53; 39 #2, 34
- David Holland
dh1 #3
Maelstrom Collection #6
- Kenyam
#5. See also "Sokoban lessons - Six"
- François Marques
Kokoban #11, 35
Le concurs du moi - Bonus level of May 2002 (Boxing)
- monry
monry-light #99, 107
- Morganine
Sokomet #13, 22, 29, 54, 60, 61
- Yoshio Murase
handmade #1, 9, 14, 28
- Blaž Nikolič
Blazz2 #5
- Aymeric du Peloux
Nabokosmos #27
Cosmopoly #10 (see remodel by Masato Hiramatsu)
- František Pokorný
#27, 44, 50, 59, 65
- Kevin B. Reilly
kbr1781, 1853, 1859, 1969
- Thomas Reinke
Thomas Reinke is the author of a lot of puzzles of 6 boxes (with rooms), all the difficulties, and most of them are really beautiful.
Anomaly #13
Anomaly 2 #26
Anomaly 3 #15, 19, 24, 27, 29, 30, 34, 38, 40, 41, 45, 48
Calx #21
Quagmire #7
Quagmire 3 #3, 21, 30, 76
TBox #9
TBox5 #38, 43, 46
- Seppolino
Symmetrixx #7
- Erim Sever
erim228
- Shaggath
Mulholland 2 #22, 24, 52
V2009 #71, 89, 96, 143, 150
V2010 #91, 98, 100, 115, 121, 143, 144
V2014 #59, 63, 64, 68
- David W. Skinner
Microban IV #30
Sasquatch V #20; VI #6
- Takaken
#3 Twins
- Přemysl Zíka
First levels #103, 106, 218
Primus gradus ad Olympo #36, 41, 42, 44
Secundus gradus ad Olympo #12, 13
