The recent collection "AC Diamonds" of Andrej Cerjak has given me the idea to dedicate a post to the topic "pyramids".
A "pyramid" is a triangular structure (usually with two stepped sides), and inside her the goals are usually grouped in the shape of chessboard. The most classic example is the puzzle of Yoshio Sakae, "Pyramid Sokoban" (Sokoban Revenge #283, see below).
You can download all puzzles here:
Author: Yoshio Sakae + York Shen + gyjgw
Title: Sokoban Revenge #283 ピラミッド・ソーコビアン (Pyramid Sokoban) b
Comment:
added 6 boxes - Y.S.
added a box - gyjgw
Date: 1991. Remodel: January 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 366/214
"Classic" pyramid. Ideal to practice the technique of the "zipper"...
Author: Howard Abed + gyjgw
Title: Second Set #22 c
Date: 1999. Remodel: 2012.8.15
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=90724&extra=page%3D1&page=16
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 169/57
Hard! Take it calmly.
Author: François Marques + Evgeny Grigoriev + gyjgw
Title: The skull (variation 2) a
Set: Le concurs du mois de novembre 2001
Date: October 2001. Remodel: 2002.8.27 (GRIGoRusha), 2009.4.2 (gyjgw)
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 212/58
There is also another remodel hard of GRIGoRusha + York Shen (see version e, Remodel Club #3).
Author: gyjgw
Title: jgw019b
Date: July 2004
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1095/474
The layout of the goals is in the form of "string", but is also fun to solve.
Author: gyjgw
Title: gy_0133
Date: August 2004
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1081/347
Excellent level, interesting and fun to solve. There are up to 23 remodels of York Shen, LZY, Tian Lang... This is the first version.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1228
Date: 2005
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 231/66 (zhenying)
Two mini opposite pyramids. Easy but nice.
Author: Eric F. Tchong + York Shen
Title: Chuchubi 2 #83 Piranha's (a)
Date: February 2008
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 787/204
Tricky remodel of York Shen.
Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokodeal #30
Date: September 2008
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1490/486
Then I post three excellent "pyramids" of Vipul Patel, of average difficulty, but very technical.
Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokodeal #32
Date: September 2008
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1251/302 (ejsantos123)
Author: Vipul Patel + York Shen
Title: MasterVIP #6 Tri-triangle (d)
Date: June 2008
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 1459/517
See also MF8 61st Sokoban Competition (Main), remodel of York Shen + anian + gyjgw.
Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Miniatures - Part One #53 My beatiful Spanish litle tree
Date: December 2010
Website: www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokoban_colecciones.html
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 112/29
Author: Dante
Title: Wisdom
Date: 2011.12.27
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=84540&extra=page%3D1&page=8
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 2055/721
Beautiful Christmas tree. There are other remodels more difficult of anian.
Author: TIAOA + 一目了然 + anian
Title: SBMendonca 01 SBM 46 dx2
Date: October 2013. Remodel: 2013.11.7
URL: sokoban.org/level.php?id=79
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 3514/1023
Wonderful level and excellent remodel!
Author: TIAOA + anian
Title: SBMendonca 05 SBM LLL 28 a5
Date: June 2015
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=91930
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 7435/2706
The biggest difficulty is to place the three central boxes of the bottom pyramid.
Author: TIAOA + anian + stopheart
Title: SBMendonca 05 SBM LLL 30 b (33)
Date: June 2015
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=92303
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 4269/1730 (Paul)
Another interesting remodel.
Author: Andrej Cerjak + Jordi Domènech
Title: AC Easy #14 Triangle - a
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 6
Date: 2015.6.18
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=92278
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 246/70
A little claustrophobic ... Take it calmly.
Bonus! "Triangles"
It is the same type of puzzle that the "pyramid", but the exterior walls they have any form, non-triangular.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #10 発想はあれですヨ
Date: 1998.10.6
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 310/61
Nice level.
Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Monster Sokoban 5-3
Date: c. 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 53/12
Is it a "triangle"? In any case, this puzzle is a little gem.
Author: Ghislain Martin
Title: SokoStation #70 To be three
Date: 2001.5.13
Website: www.sokoban.fr/
Difficulty: 2
Best moves/pushes: 28/7
Another excellent miniature.
Author: François Marques
Title: Sokompact #47 Go up
Date: July 2002
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 148/51
Excellent!
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrComet #4 Space rocket
Date: 2005.9.19
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 374/89
A mini pyramid inside a cross-shaped structure. It seems unsolvable... :P
Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Miniatures - Part Two #30 From Spain, happy new year 2011 to all Sokoban lovers
Date: December 2010
Website: www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokoban_colecciones.html
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 135/38
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!
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #20 The Big Lebowski
Date: January 2015
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 453/149
Curious ... You will need to put your elbows on the table to solve it ...
This post is to relax. Most of puzzles are relatively easy and fun to solve. Conditions:
- Lines of 9 or more goals.
- In the puzzles there may be other goals, but the line has to be the main theme.
A curious fact: the most difficult lines are 5 to 8 boxes, and it deserves another post.
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Title: 涙の倉庫番スペシャル ("Namida no Soukoban Special"; NES, Famicom - ASCII Corp.) #96
Later publication: Sokoban Perfect (1989) #212
Date: July 1986
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 1096/426 (Sokobano)
Double problem: take out the first box, and put all boxes in the cargo area.
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #55 南京錠 (Padlock)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1375/411
Excellent! Big line in the middle and rooms on the corners.
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #146 扉の向こう側 (The other side of the door)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 600/160
Exceptional! One of my favorite puzzles from always.
Author: Hir (Masato Hiramatsu)
Title: Ikki tsuukan
Comment: from BanSoko 031
Date: 1997.4.12
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 318/95
Simple and fun to solve.
Author: David W. Skinner + Marek Letrab
Title: Sasquatch III #48 Parallel Logic 2 c
Comment: added 6 boxes
Date: June 2000. Remodel: c. October 2002
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1048/405 (Wolfgang Haas)
As Skinner notes on its website, this level is an improved version of Sasquatch #49. Marek Letrab made an extension and deleted the bottom.
Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Nakamiya #3
Comment: also published in Monster Sokoban 7-2
Date: June-July 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 216/61
A little gem!
Author: David W. Skinner + York Shen
Title: Sasquatch V #25 a
Date: December 2001. Remodel: c. April 2005
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 521/108 (ken glass)
Classic line-up. I publish this version of York Shen, with one more box, and lightly more difficult. York Shen has other more complicated versions, with up to 22 boxes, but with important modifications in the structure. Finally, stopheart also made a remodel with a more box.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch V #27
Date: December 2001
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 4940/1530 (Sokobano)
This puzzle reminds Sokoban Perfect #212 (see above). There is also an arrangement of York Shen with a box more.
Author: Arpad Fekete
Title: #5 Line
Comment: It took very long to finish cr(e)ating this level.
Date: 2003.7.18
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 1121/303
Nice level. The biggest difficulty is to put all the boxes in the cargo area.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 987
Comment: line-up medium
Date: c. 2003
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 178/84 (xbluejimx)
Another classic line-up. It is not as easy as it seems...
Author: Keijo Sopuli
Title: #12 Line
Date: c. May 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 2033/550 (Archanfel + TIAOA)
Maybe it's one of the most classic big lines, and one of my favorites.
Author: Panda + unknown
Title: Panda 92 #50 b
Date: c. 2004
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 301/65
Beautiful line and nice to solve.
Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokodeal #7
Date: September 2008
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 6971/1957 (Archanfel)
Don't panic! It is not easy to put all boxes in the cargo area... See also Sokodeal #36 et seq.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch X #39
Date: July 2010
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1761/629
Extended version of Sasquatch II #7. Problem: put all the boxes on the stairs.
Author: 推乐山 (Tui Leshan)
Title: 剑 (Sword)
Date: 2011.2.23
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 8049/3264
Spectacular sword!
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #171
Date: January 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 774/248
Rotary level, in the classic style of Přemysl Zíka.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #179
Date: January 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1210/334
A fun little toy.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #190
Comment: Joke problem
Date: February 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 13506/1849
Incredibly difficult and laborious puzzle, with several "devices" that open / close the passageways. Take it calmly!
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #231
Comment: This level looks easy, but appearances can be deceiving...
Date: April 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 8 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 1010/292 (Wolfgang Haas)
Hard and laborious pillar. You can try the previous level #230, a reduced version with only 9 boxes.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #247
Date: May 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 749/221
Very nice and fun to solve!
Author: Sven Egevad + Jordi Doménech
Title: SE 1722 arr.
Comment:
key-lock hard - S.E.
arranged map - J.D.
Date: c. 2013. Remodel: 2014.3.17
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 4194/560
It is the last puzzle of an excellent series that begins in the level #1719 (the most difficult perhaps is #1721). I have arranged the map: now is a bit more laborious to solve.
Author: TIAOA + Jordi Doménech
Title: SBM 1+ final
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 5
Date: September 2013. Remodel: 2013.9.23
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 448/151
Another pillar with additional rooms.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #51
Comment: I quite like it.
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 870/191
Fantastic level! I love it!
Some good arranged levels of TIAOA, fun to solve.
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Author: TIAOA + Jordi Domenech + anian
Title: SBM 32+ a3
Date: 2013.10.7
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=127
Best moves/pushes: 5547/1531
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Author: TIAOA + Jordi Domenech + Premysl Zíka
Title: SBM 32+
Date: 2013.10.24
Comment: Here I made adjustments in the middle part - now you need to circulate throughout the round.- P.Z.
URL: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban-remodeled.cz
Best moves/pushes: 6080/1382
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Author: TIAOA + anian + 一目了然 + anian
Title: SBM 46 dx2
Comment:
anian: change 2 boxes to walls, add 2 walls, rearrange some goals (SBM 46b)
一目了然: simplified version: based on SBM 46b, deletes the right half
anian: add 2 boxes
Date: 2013.11.7
URL: sokoban.org
Best moves/pushes: 3514/1023
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Author: TIAOA + msxmlh
Title: SBM 37 a1
Best moves/pushes: 18448/5130
