17 October 2013

Letters & words

In "Letters & words" ("Sokoban lessons"), I added these three new puzzles:

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Author: laizhufu + gyjgw
Title:  伍仁月 (Five Kernel Mooncake) - MF8 51st Sokoban Competition, Extra
Comment: It's the Chinese Mid-Autumn Day on Sep. 19 this year. People eat moon-cakes on Mid-autumn Day. So this level is a mooncake with five kernel. 

Date: 2013.9.20
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=99390&extra=page%3D1

Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 635/170 (Dante)


Yang Chao has given me this explanation: "The Chinese characters inside the mooncake is 伍仁, which means 'Five Kernel'. It means that there are five different things inside the mooncake: peanut, sesame, walnut, etc. It is a very common kind of mooncake."




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Author: shamying
Title: 国庆快乐 (Happy National Day)
Comment:
大家国庆快乐。小关卡,非常容易。休闲一下而已。
Date: 2013.10.1
URL: sokoban.org
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 516/114

Goals (and horizontal indoor wall): the character , which means "to celebrate". It's the National Day of China today (Oct. 1st), we celebrate the National Day (I am grateful to
Yang Chao this explanation). Regarding the puzzle, the greatest difficulty is in the top.




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# ####### * *****.#
#    #    *   #   #
# ####### * **#**.#
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#    $    * # # # #
#  #$###  * # # # #
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Author: laizhufu
Title: 美债危机 (U.S. debt crisis)
Date: 2013.10.17
URL: sokoban.org
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 454/138

Interior walls, goals and boxes: 美债, which means "U.S. debt". Nice one, and good idea... This is the kind of puzzles which creates new Sokoban fans :)


08 October 2013

Great puzzles - "Cobra" by Marko Dzekic, and remodeled by Přemysl Zíka



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Author: Marko Dzekic
Title: Cobra
Best moves/pushes: 15801/4463
 

In Let's Logic, Tiaoa has posted a series of entertaining and imaginative "snakes". So, I asked myself: what is the best "snake" of Sokoban? And, right away, I thought in this "Cobra" by Marko Dzekic. Without doubt, is one of the most original and beautiful "snakes" that I know. I posting it here because, in addition, I believe that is not well known to fans. It was posted in 2011 in the Chinese forum MF8.

Hint: It is a "snake" very "logical" ... You don't push all the boxes!

If one day I have time, maybe even make a selection of the most beautiful "snakes", to add it to "Sokoban lessons".



Přemysl Zíka has sent me this difficult remodel with two more boxes (!) ...

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Author: Marko Dzekic + Premysl Zíka
Title: Cobra+
Date: 2013.10.8
Best moves/pushes: 46229/11047 (
Premysl Zíka)


Final version (for now):

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Author: Marko Dzekic + Premysl Zíka + gyjgw + anian + Premysl Zíka
Title: Big Cobra
Date: 2013.10.16
Difficulty: 9.5 (P.Z.)

URL: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban-remodeled.cz
Best moves/pushes: 43473/10749 (Premysl Zíka) 
Comment:

   - In first step I added 2 boxes (meanwhile on my small working version: gyjgw and anian used to fine-adjust one goal and minor changes); difficulty of this my 1st version: 9.3 (original difficulty from Marko Dzekic is about 7) [note: in my small working version I have checked only the solutions with 2 boxes extra].
   - In second step, I moved 1 goal to left down. Then I've changed the position of goals in the middle room (I'm inspired by gyjgw + anian - and I thank them for that), closed from both sides; difficulty of this 2nd version and concurrently my final version: 9.5.

The main scope of work of a sokoban player (and actually a "joke" of this level) is in the big "S"... (...my little help for sokoban players: be very careful you move many boxes, advantage is each space - even the slightest - even in the middle of the floor). Second version are "little changes", that they in the last version a little increase the difficulty, interest, attractiveness and popularity... (...my little help for sokoban players: middle room you must closed to the end of the solution).

My first ... and also at the same time solution: 98261/14307 (...crazy).

A prerequisite after the optimization: 40000 moves (please send me the solution - thank you).- P.Z.