28 March 2013

Oldies - Li Jinyu "Walking series"

Li Jinyu is the author of several puzzles that I have taken the liberty to name "Walking". The levels are 10315 to 10325. What do they have in common these 10 puzzles? Actually, they are not of Li Jinyu, but each puzzle is an aggregate of several puzzles of other authors, in a sort of "sokocollage". However, both the selection of puzzles, such as binding to one another, is very well done, so that each "sokocollage" is like an intricate "route", and to solve the puzzles is a fun and interesting *walk*.

This series of puzzles of Jinyu was subsequently included -without author's name- in the file "No Author Levels", in the popular program SuperSoko (2003). In "No Author Levels" these puzzles are levels #90 and #179 to 187. (Note: In fact, except 24, the 244 puzzles of "No Author Levels" come from well-known authors and collections...).

With a little patience, I have managed to identify the puzzles that make up the "routes" 10315 to 10325. You can download the set here:


Then I publish the 10 fun and interesting "routes". Happy walk!


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10315
Best moves/pushes: 1011/334

Route 10315

1. Yoshio Sakae - Boxxle II 08-09 (Sokoban Revenge #47)
2. Jacques Duthen - Dimitri & Yorick #61
3. Yoshio Sakae - Boxxle II 08-02 (Sokoban Revenge #51)
4. Boxxle II 8-10
5. Jacques Duthen - Dimitri & Yorick #57

Map 
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|  1. Boxxle II  | 2. Dimitri & Yorick | 5. Dimitri & Yorick |
|      08-09     |         #61         |          #57        |
-------------------------------------------------------------
|  3. Boxxle II  |                     |    4. Boxxle II     |
|      08-02     |                     |       08-10         |
-----------------                      -----------------------


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10316
Best moves/pushes: 738/201

Route 10316

1. Yoshio Sakae - Boxxle II 08-01 (Sokoban Revenge #49)
2. Hidemitsu Kobayashi - Sokoban Perfect #189
3. Ryu Maruta - Boxxle II 01-06 (Sokoban Revenge #12)
4. Kazuhiro Yamaguchi - Boxxle II 01-04 (Sokoban Revenge #28) 
5. Boxxle 10-03 (Sokoban Perfect #237)
6. Akihiro Miyamoto - Boxxle II 07-08 (Sokoban Revenge #37)

Map

---------------------------------------------------
|  3. Boxxle II  |  1. Boxxle II  |     2. SP      |
|      01-06     |     08-01      |      #189      |
---------------------------------------------------
|  4. Boxxle II  |   5. Boxxle    |  6. Boxxle II  |
|      01-04     |     10-03      |     07-08      |
---------------------------------------------------

 


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10317
Best moves/pushes: 524/158 

Route 10317

1. Masaki Ishino - Sokoban Perfect #126
2. Takemi Watanabe - Boxxle II 01-05 (Sokoban Revenge #26)
3. Yoshio Sakae - Boxxle II 01-08 (Sokoban Revenge #17)
4. Yoshio Sakae - Sokoban Perfect #197
5. Hidemitsu Kobayashi - Boxxle II 07-09
6. Sokoban Perfect #138
7. Koji Kono - Sokoban Perfect #139

Map
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|  5. Boxxle II  |  6. SP #138  |  7. SP #139 |  1. SP #126  |
|      07-09     |              |             |              |
-------------------------------------------------------------
|     4. SP #197    |   3. Boxxle II    |   2. Boxxle II     |
|                   |       01-08       |      01-05         |
--------------------------------------------------------------


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10318
Best moves/pushes: 898/254

Route 10318

1. Yoshio Murase - handmade #2
2. Motoyuki Ozeki - Boxxle II 01-03 (Sokoban Revenge #9)
3. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #41
4. Jacques Duthen - Dimitri & Yorick #49
5. Boxxle 01-02
6. Yoshio Murase - handmade #1
7. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #32
8. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #39
9. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #7
10. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #3
11. Tamanai - Boxxle II 07-10 (Sokoban Revenge #27)

Map
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| 1. handmade  |          6. handmade        |  8. auto  |
|      #2      |             #1              |     #39   |
----------------------------------------------------------
| 2. Boxxle II |  5. Boxxle  |    7. auto    |  9. auto  |
|     01-03    |      01-02  |       #32     |    #7     |
----------------------------------------------------------
|   3. auto    |  4. D & Y   | 11. Boxxle II | 10. auto  |
|     #41      |     #49     |    07-10      |    #3     |
----------------------------------------------------------

This 10318 is perhaps the most fun "route". "zhenying" and York Shen made several remodels, which included in the downloadable set. I've added a wall in the remodel of York Shen, only by doing something, because I have not had time to study the puzzle with more attention. This is my version, only slightly more difficult than that of York Shen:

Author: Li Jinyu + zhenying + York Shen + Jordi Domenech
Title: 10318 c
Best moves/pushes: 1070/287


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10319
Best moves/pushes: 835/189

Route 10319

1. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #20
2. Yoshio Murase - handmade #5
3. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #18
4. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #31
5. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #1
6. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #30
7. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #28
8. Yoshio Murase - BanSoko 2-2
9. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #44
10. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #24
11. ?

Map
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| 1. auto  | 2. handmade | 3. auto | 4. auto |
|    #20   |       #5    |   #18   |    #31  |
----------------------------------------------
|  11. ?   | 8. BanSoko  | 7. auto | 5. auto |
|          |     2-2     |   #28   |    #1   |
----------------------------------------------
| 10. auto |   9. auto   |         | 6. auto |
|    #24   |     #44     |         |   #30   |
--------------------------         -----------


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10320
Best moves/pushes: 738/186

Route 10320

1. Yoshio Murase - handmade #7
2. Yoshio Murase - handmade #11
3. Yoshio Murase - handmade #12
4. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #23
5. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #51
6. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #13
7. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #40
8. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #52
9. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #27
10. Yoshio Murase - handmade #4
11. Yoshio Murase - handmade #6

Map
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| 1. handmade |   5. auto   | 6. auto |   7. auto    |
|      #7     |     #51     |   #13   |     #40      |
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| 2. handmade |   4. auto   | 8. auto | 11. handmade |
|      #11    |     #23     |   #52   |      #6      |
------------------------------------------------------
              | 3. handmade | 9. auto | 10. handmade |
              |     #12     |   #27   |      #4      |
              ----------------------------------------


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10321
Best moves/pushes: 923/239

Route 10321

1. Yoshio Murase - handmade #9
2. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #37
3. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #16
4. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #35
5. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #15
6. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #30
7. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #48
8. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #6
9. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #38
10. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #8
11. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #21
12. Ryo Hachiya - Boxxle II 08-07 (Sokoban Revenge #86)

Map
----------------------------------------------------
| 1. handmade | 6. auto |   7. auto     | 8. auto  |
|      #9     |   #30   |     #48       |   #6     |
----------------------------------------------------
|   2. auto   | 5. auto |   10. auto    | 9. auto  |
|     #37     |   #15   |      #8       |   #38    |
----------------------------------------------------
|   3. auto   | 4. auto | 12. Boxxle II | 11. auto |
|     #16     |   #35   |     08-07     |   #21    |
----------------------------------------------------


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10322
Best moves/pushes: 897/240

Route 10322

1. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #22
2. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #14
3. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #49
4. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #12
5. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #10
6. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #25
7. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #2
8. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #9
9. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #50
10. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #29
11. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #47
12. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #43
13. Jacques Duthen - Dimitri & Yorick #43

Map
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| 1. auto  | 7. auto  | 8. auto  | 9. auto   | 10. auto |
|   #22    |   #2     |   #9     |   #50     |   #29    |
---------------------------------------------------------
| 2. auto  | 5. auto  | 6. auto  | 11. auto  |
|   #14    |   #10    |   #25    |   #47     |
---------------------------------------------------------
| 3. auto  | 4. auto  |          | 13. D & Y | 12. auto |
|   #49    |   #12    |          |    #43    |   #43    |
-----------------------          ------------------------
 


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10323
Best moves/pushes: 848/227

Route 10323

1. Yoshio Murase - handmade #10
2. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #17
3. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #45
4. Akihiro Miyamoto - Boxxle II 02-01 (Sokoban Revenge #11)
5. Yoshio Murase - handmade #3
6. Sokoban Perfect #227
7. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #4
8. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #42
9. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #11
10. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #19

Map
---------------              --------------------------
| 1. handmade |              |             | 8. auto  |
|      #10    |              |    6. SP    |   #42    |
------------------------------     #227    ------------
|   2. auto   |   7. auto    |             | 9. auto  |
|     #17     |      #4      |             |   #11    |
-------------------------------------------------------
|   3. auto   | 4. Boxxle II | 5. handmade | 10. auto |
|     #45     |   02-01      |     #3      |   #19    |
-------------------------------------------------------


Author: Li Jinyu
Title: 10325
Best moves/pushes: 693/204

Route 10325

1. Jacques Duthen - Dimitri & Yorick #13
2. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #5
3. Akihiro Miyamoto - Boxxle II 01-02
4. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #36
5. Yoshio Sai - Boxxle II 08-04 (Sokoban Revenge #31)
6. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #33
7. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #46
8. Jacques Duthen - Dimitri & Yorick #54
9. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #26
10. Yoshio Murase - autogenerated #34

Map
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|   1. D & Y   |              | 6. auto  | 10. auto  |
|      #13     | 5. Boxxle II |   #33    |    #34    |
----------------     08-04    ------------------------
|   2. auto    |              | 7. auto  | 9. auto   |
|      #5      |              |   #46    |   #26     |
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| 3. Boxxle II |    4. auto   | 8. D & Y |
|     01-02    |     #36      |   #54    | 
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27 March 2013

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BOAVENTURA SOUSA SANTOS



13 March 2013

gyjgw - small and medium remodels

David W. Skinner + gyjgw, Sasquatch VII #27

In the file "gyjgw - small and medium remodels" I've collected a selection of remodels of "gyjgw", of medium and small size. Everything that "gyjgw" does, has always a lot of sense. In their remodels, he's not limited to add boxes or walls to increase the difficulty, but often brings a new concept of the puzzle. In addition, "gyjgw" has a great technical masters in all typologies of puzzles (knots of boxes, chessboards, storage, "logic"...), as you can appreciate in this selection.

All remodels are *difficult*, and are only recommended for experienced players.

Finally, to appreciate the work of "gyjgw", I recommend comparing the remodel with the original.

You can download the set here:
 

I have not solved all the puzzles, because of the lack of time. Then I indicate the best results (moves/pushes) of the puzzles I've solved so far. Of course, feel free to send me your solutions, to complete this ranking (you can paste your solutions below, or send them to me by email):

1. Abed - SokoCreation #56
   Best moves/pushes: 126/32

2. Abed - SokoCreation #57
   Best moves/pushes: 249/56

3. Abed - SokoCreation #98
   Best moves/pushes: 316/116

4. Abed - SokoCreation #99
   Best moves/pushes: 92/24

5. Abed - Second Set #22
   Best moves/pushes: 189/49

6. Druille - Tableau 71
   Best moves/pushes: 631/195

7. Egevad - SE 107
   Best moves/pushes: 169/59

8. Egevad - SE 213
   Best moves/pushes: 218/44

9. Egevad - SE 232
   Best moves/pushes: 220/52

10. Egevad - SE 250
   Best moves/pushes: 180/42

11. Egevad - SE 251
   Best moves/pushes: 47/14

12. Egevad - SE 297
   Best moves/pushes: 118/32

13. Egevad - SE 324
   Best moves/pushes: 56/22

14. Gone with the Wind - Level 26
   Best moves/pushes: 597/165

15. Gone with the Wind - Level 31
   Best moves/pushes: 466/103

16. Gone with the Wind - Level 32
   Best moves/pushes: 174/40

17. Gone with the Wind - Level 38
   Best moves/pushes: 

18. Gone with the Wind - Level 45
   Best moves/pushes: 450/135

19. Gone with the Wind - Level 56
   Best moves/pushes: 

20. Gone with the Wind - Level 58
   Best moves/pushes: 

21. Gone with the Wind - Level 59
   Best moves/pushes: 

22. GRIGoRusha - grigr2001 #12
   Best moves/pushes: 128/40

23. GRIGoRusha - grigr2001 #64
   Best moves/pushes: 380/81

24. GRIGoRusha - grigr2002 #127
   Best moves/pushes: 1288/355

25. Holland - dh5 #18
   Best moves/pushes: 2378/536

26. Holland - MF8 18th Sokoban Competition
   Best moves/pushes: 1792/475


27. Kyrian - #7
   Best moves/pushes: 


28. laizhufu - Again Y
   Best moves/pushes: 295/96 


29. laizhufu - 34th MF8 Sokoban Competition
   Best moves/pushes:


30. laizhufu - Demons and monsters
   Best moves/pushes:


31. laizhufu - Soldiers in three columns
   Best moves/pushes:


32. laizhufu - Mao Rabbit Xiaotuguaiguai
   Best moves/pushes: 410/117


33. LZY - #3
   Best moves/pushes: 171/30


34. LZY - #8
   Best moves/pushes: 464/127


35. Marques - 100 boxes #8
   Best moves/pushes: 211/58


36. Marques - The skull
   Best moves/pushes:


37. Marques - The square
   Best moves/pushes:


38. Marques - Come back (variation)
   Best moves/pushes: 189/44


39. Mic - Level of the Month 12/03
   Best moves/pushes: 1071/270 


40. Mic - Level of the Month 09/09
   Best moves/pushes: 920/225


41. Mic - SokoWahn #95 c
   Best moves/pushes: 505/107


42. Mic - SokoWahn #95
   Best moves/pushes: 649/119


43. Mic - SokoMaxx #99
   Best moves/pushes:


44. Palstra - #101 The long way home
   Best moves/pushes: 4351/1083


45. Polhemus - Title Screens #2
   Best moves/pushes: 353/100


46. Reilly - kevin007
   Best moves/pushes: 389/157


47. Reilly - kevin009
   Best moves/pushes: 651/283


48. Reilly - kevin012
   Best moves/pushes: 550/218


49. Reilly - kbr1061
   Best moves/pushes: 476/138 


50. Reilly - kbr1120 a
   Best moves/pushes: 190/49


51. Reilly - kbr1120 b
   Best moves/pushes: 466/124


52. Reilly - kbr1120 c
   Best moves/pushes: 524/144


53. Reilly - kbr1834
   Best moves/pushes: 210/59


54. Reilly - kbr1885
   Best moves/pushes: 416/94


55. Skinner - Sasquatch II #17
   Best moves/pushes: 643/140


56. Skinner - Sasquatch III #34
   Best moves/pushes: 1475/351


57. Skinner - Sasquatch IV #14
   Best moves/pushes: 100/34


58. Skinner - Sasquatch IV #25
   Best moves/pushes: 611/126


59. Skinner - Sasquatch IV #31
   Best moves/pushes: 340/110 


60. Skinner - Sasquatch IV #31 a
   Best moves/pushes:


61. Skinner - Sasquatch IV #36
   Best moves/pushes:


62. Skinner - Sasquatch VII #27
   Best moves/pushes: 750/193


63. Skinner - Sasquatch VII #37
   Best moves/pushes:


64. Skinner - Sasquatch IX #31
   Best moves/pushes: 444/168


65. Tchong - Chuchubi 15 #32 Arubian rattlesnake B
   Best moves/pushes: 1418/306


66. Sokoban Perfect #33
   Best moves/pushes: 519/197


67. Sokoban Perfect #38
   Best moves/pushes: 700/206


68. Sokoban Perfect #113
   Best moves/pushes: 186/57


69. Sokoban Perfect #239
   Best moves/pushes: 794/135 


70. Sokoban Perfect #261
   Best moves/pushes: 788/241


71. Sokoban Perfect #265
   Best moves/pushes: 324/110


72. Sokoban Perfect #267
   Best moves/pushes: 240/68


73. Sokoban Perfect #288
   Best moves/pushes: 273/100


74. Sokoban Perfect #303
   Best moves/pushes: 507/152


75. Sokoban Perfect #305
   Best moves/pushes: 500/173


76. Sokoban Revenge #228
   Best moves/pushes: 393/78


77. Sokoban Revenge #266
   Best moves/pushes: 1821/428


78. Sokoban Revenge #283
   Best moves/pushes: 410/202


79. Timwi - Timwi's Levels #1
   Best moves/pushes: 1986/598 


80. Tui Leshan - Pistol
   Best moves/pushes: 1141/351


81. Yut - #4
   Best moves/pushes: 406/82


82. zhenying - #6
   Best moves/pushes:396/85

02 March 2013

Sokoban lessons - Four boxes (with rooms)

The puzzles of four boxes have a peculiarity: are the frontier between the easy and the difficult. Indeed, the puzzles of 3 boxes are easy (with rare exceptions); in contrast, with 5 boxes is already possible to build very difficult puzzles; 4 boxes is the border between the two.

Aymeric du Peloux is a specialist in this kind of puzzles. I recommend visiting their collections, and also those of Dries De Clercq and Shaggath.

See also the previous posts "Lines (four boxes)" and "Tiny squares", where I have selected many other puzzles in 4 boxes.


I publish below which are, in my opinion, the most beautiful puzzles of four boxes (with rooms), in chronological order. You can download all puzzles here:
 




Author: Hiroshi Yamamoto
Title: 迷走するシナプス2 (Synapse straying 2)
Comment:
上の問題は、未発表作を大幅に改良したもの。
歩数が多い割に面白さはそれほどでもないか。
Date: May 1999
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 532/101

Nice storage problem: the goals area is located at the crossroads of the passage ways.


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Microcosmos 09
Subtitle: Moulin (Windmill)
Comment: Quand je l'ai créé, j'ai eu peur qu'on l'ai inventé avant moi. C'est un thème que j'aime beaucoup, et que j'ai souvent réutilisé par la suite (Microcosmos 18, 25, 37 ou encore Nabokosmos 10). Tourne, tourne petit moulin ...
Date: 1999
Website:
www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty (A. du P.): 6
Best moves/pushes: 209/64

Classic "wheel". By the way, this puzzle is identical to Souko Hard 05, of unknown author, dated 11 November 1999. What was the first?

倉庫 (1999) - Souko Hard 05

See an enlargement (with 8 boxes): Monster Sokoban 7-3 of Hirohiko Nakamiya:

Hirohiko Nakamiya - Monster Sokoban 7-3
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Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Microban #110
Date: April 2000
Difficulty: 3.5
Best moves/pushes: 51/14

The pinwheel.


Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Monster Sokoban 6-2
Date: July 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 3.5
Best moves/pushes: 149/54

Structure divided in columns (or rows) with a invariable width of 2 floors. This structure requires complicated maneuvers to move boxes from one room to another. See a similar theme in Yoshio Sakae, Sokoban Revenge #208 (1991, with 6 boxes). After treaty also by David W. Skinner, Sasquatch IV #9 (2001) and Microban III #8 (2009). See also the spectacular macro-enlargements: Yoshio Sakae, Sokoban Revenge #306 (1991, best moves/pushes: 11011/5929):

Yoshio Sakae - Sokoban Revenge #306 倉庫番の巡礼 ("Sokoban pilgrimage")
 
Nakamiya #10 (2000, best moves/pushes: 9927/3462):

Nakamiya #10

"Long March" by 20603 (2000, best moves/pushes: 36603/13465):

"Long March" by 20603 (Yongzhong Zou)

and Howard Abed, SokoBig-70 #70 (2001, best moves/pushes: 25789/12104).

Perhaps it would be interesting to dedicate a post to this typology of puzzles. Obviously, the first puzzle in this style was Sokoban 2 (1984) #13, of Thinking Rabbit (= Sokoban Perfect #154; modified versions: Original #23, and Sokoban Revenge #72).

倉庫番2 (1984, Thinking Rabbit) - Level 13
___


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Nabokosmos 04
Subtitle: Grand T (Big T)
Comment: Le retour du thème de l'escalier. Pour ceux qui considère qu'un niveau "escalier" est facile. (Voir aussi Microcosmos 30)
Date: January 2001
Website:
www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty (A. du P.): 7
Best moves/pushes: 178/55

Exchange of boxes from one room to another, a theme already seen in "Three boxes"; in this case, within a stepped structure. Aymeric's rating is greatly exaggerated: my difficulty rating is 5.


Author: François Marques
Title: Kokoban #13 The butterfly
Date: March 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 176/68

Excellent! Exchange of boxes from one room to another, but with very tight spaces and with stepped structure in the upper half, which requires difficult maneuvers.


Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch IV #2
Date: March 2001
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 102/32

Beautiful puzzle with three rooms and alternate goals. Very elegant. This puzzle was used on the Sokoban Robot Competition (Syddansk Universitet Odense, Denmark, 2011). Watch a video here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXSR7X0E-zg


Author: François Marques
Title: Novoban #29 For ban 4
Date: May 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 82/31

Exchange of boxes from one room to another within a minimal structure (the left room, stepped). Nice and funny.


Author: François Marques
Title: Sokolate #41 L'ai-je bien descendu
Date: November 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 119/37

Fun pairs.


Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2001 #55 Kubizm (arr.)
Date: November 2001
Website: grigr.narod.ru/
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 173/31

Excellent rotary puzzle, within a minimal structure. I have added 1 wall in (5,5), the solution is the same.


Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch V #1
Date: December 2001
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 112/39

Again the theme of exchange of boxes between two rooms, within a minimal structure. Compare with the previous puzzle Novoban #29 of François Marques.


Author: François Marques + Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Cosmopoly #5 For ban 15
Comment: Réalisé en même temps que Nabokosmos 19. C'est un peu plus difficile.
Date: 2001
Website:
www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/ 
Difficulty (A. du P.): 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 158/64

Spectacular! Perhaps one of the best puzzles in this style.


Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Microban II #166 variant
Date: April 2002. Remodel: 2013.2.21
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 372/119

Curious rotary puzzle.
A special variant for this post ;)


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Cosmonotes #2
Date: c. June 2003
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty (A. du P.): 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 292/87

Excellent "staircase", within a rotary structure.


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Cosmonotes #9
Date: c. June 2003
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty (A. du P.): 7
Best moves/pushes: 220/37

Hard! I acknowledge that I have desperately going round and round. The difficulty is to place the 4 boxes on the same side. Similar to Nabokosmos #18 ("Phone").


Myriocosmos #4 is a version more difficult with 5 boxes.


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Cosmonotes #10
Date: c. June 2003
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty (A. du P.): 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 342/99

So fun puzzle, of subtle rotary structure. My difficulty rating: 5.5.


Author: Dries De Clercq
Title: 696 #83
Date: April 2005
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 219/53

"696" is a remarkable collection of excellent compact and quasi-compact puzzles of 3, 4, 5 and up to 6 boxes. I've selected only three, but it would have been able to select other 20, and all equally good. In this particular puzzle, the last rotation of boxes before the end, is spectacular.


Author: Dries De Clercq
Title: 696 #282
Date: April 2005
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 125/43

Classic lineup in two rooms, but with a fourth box of hindrance.


Author: Dries De Clercq
Title: 696 #353
Date: April 2005
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 160/44

Nice! The whole difficulty is to rearrange the boxes to place the first box.


Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly #15
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 137/26

Nice and fun.


Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Scoria 2 #11
Date: November 2007
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 92/25

Another small puzzle very beautiful in its simplicity.


Author: Martí Homs
Title: Other levels #9 Nice ring #2 arr.
Date: 2007
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2011/07/marti-homs.html
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 168/63

Excellent rotary puzzle! Alongside with V2010 #81 of Shaggath (see below), I think it is one of the best.


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Myriocosmos #5
Date: 2008
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 243/65

Original "stairs".


Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Myriocosmos #8
Date: 2008
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 169/38

Fantastic lineup, with fourth hindrance box (see also above 696 #353 of Dries De Clercq).


Author: Shaggath
Title: Mulholland 2 #10 arr.
Date: c. 2008
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 242/74

Strange map, but interesting and fun to solve.


Author: Shaggath
Title: Mulholland 2 #43 arr.
Date: c. 2008
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 188/54

Incredible puzzle, very difficult, but amazing resolution.


Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #36
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 200/63

Hard one, but nice. Requires a lot of maneuvers ... 176 moves to place the first box!


Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #39 arr.
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 164/38

Fantastic! Aesthetically beautiful, and very interesting to solve.


Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #40 arr.
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 174/50

Another little pearl!


Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #51
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 176/52

The ecstasy...


Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #81 arr.
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 274/65

Magistral! Along with the puzzle of Martí Homs (see above), is one of the best rotary puzzles.


Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Microban IV variations #12
Comment: based on Microban IV #44
Date: August 2010. Remodel: May 2012
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 175/44

Original. It seems that lack a space ... but there is: the difficulty is to discover this space "invisible"...


Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Miniatures - Part One (easy) #6
Date: December 2010
Website:
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 3
Best moves/pushes: 47/16

Yes, very easy ... But if you choose
and push the right box, is unsolvable ;)


Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Miniatures - Part One (easy) #19
Date: December 2010
Website:
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 189/36
 


Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Level 75
Date: 1990-1995, published in October 2011
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 190/78

Great labyrinth!


Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #32
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 277/62

Difficult and disconcerting.


Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #55
Date:
January 2012
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 305/84

Excellent and original rotary puzzle.



Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly 3 #46 Lake of Fire
Date: February 2012
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 114/26

Alternate goals... Dice four to dice four.



Author: Shaggath
Title: V2014 #51
Date: January 2014
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 197/53


Is a structure similar to Mulholland 2 #43 (see above), but this version is also very good. 


Author: niwa
Title: Square dance #7 Circle the Square
Date: February 2014
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 95/22

Author: Thomas Reinke 
Title: Quagmire 3 #48 Theory of Gravity
Date: April 2014
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 141/50


Other puzzles

- Howard Abed
Third Set #15 arr.

- Serg Belyaev
svb051, 148, 164, 329

- Choi In-Seok
My Sokoban 1

- Dries De Clercq
696 #39, 41, 46, 76, 83, 126, 305, 353, 437, 440, 443, 446, 451, 452, 453
Zone26 #1 Islands, #6 Go Round 1, #7 Stock

- Jordi Domènech
Magic Sokoban #30, #74 Perplexity
Magic Sokoban 2 #92 Moves a star
Magic Sokoban 3 #13 Four, #20 Tiny L, #32 Touching Sides variation, #36
Miniatures (Part One) #12
The beautiful world of remodels 3, #46

Microban I variations #14, 15
Microban II variations #12, 13, 15, 16
Microban III variations #3, 13
Microban IV variations #5

Alberto Garcia remixed #32
 
- Sven Egevad
SE 679, 1427


- Evgeny Grigoriev
Grigr2001 #44, #75 Telefon

- Marcus Hof
Revenge 30 #20

- Marti Homs
Homz Challenge #71

- François Marques
Novoban #50
Kokoban #8 Move my body
Sokompact #1

- François Marques + zhenying
Soloban #1 The spiral

- monry
FirstStep 413, 419
monry-light #12

- morganine
Sokomet #37, 43

- Aymeric du Peloux
Microcosmos 15, 18, 20, 27
Nabokosmos 18, 19, 24
Cosmonotes #4, 13

- Frantisek Pokorny
#43, 88

- Thomas Reinke
Anomaly #19

- Erim Sever
erim217

- Shaggath
Mulholland 2 #44, 61
V2010 #30, 45, 48, 55, 72

- David W. Skinner
Microban #152
Microban II #50, 129
Microban III #17, 45, 51
Microban IV #21
Sasquatch IV #8


- Sokoban Perfect
#199

- Sokoban Revenge
#104 (Hiroshi Yamamoto)

- Přemysl Zíka
#77