Aleksey Krupenko - Sonic

By chance, I have found an exceptional collection: "Sonic" (2012-...), of Aleksey Krupenko. So far there are 154 storage levels, in the style of Thinking Rabbit, but of a high quality, carefully studied, and very well built (are rare the levels at which there are double interior walls, which indicates a good construction). Each puzzle is a little gem. In general, they recall the style of Jean-Pierre Kent (1998).

You can download this collection here:

• Sonic (154 levels)

If you like storage levels, this is your collection. There are some levels quite difficult, even for the experienced player and some maddening. Other levels are fantastic, incredibly good. But all levels are interesting and beautiful. Enjoy!


Source of the levels
 
See the website Sokoban online game, posted by its author (see "Submited Collections"). The "Sonic" collection is here: http://www.game-sokoban.com/index.php?mode=ucollection&cid=76
 
The "Sonic" collection does not seem closed, because periodically Aleksey Krupenko adds new levels to the series.

I have written twice to author of puzzles (in English and Russian), but has not answered me. I hope not to bother if I share this excellent set in this blog. Anyway, if Aleksey Krupenko reads this post, I really would like him to contact me.

If you like these levels, I hope your comments.
 

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Přemysl Zíka sent me this comment:

And the collection Sonic from Aleksey Krupenko... I could not resist. I put into it - and all (rooms 28-67) for yesterday and today are resolved... "Ahhh, I grunt bliss" (I do not know if Google translate well; in Bohemia sometimes say: "chrochtám blahem"). The best collection of the last period!

Oldies - Three beautiful puzzles of gyjgw

Below, I publish three levels of gyjgw very nice and fun to solve. All three are about the years 2004-2005, and are difficult, although affordable, and belong to the typology of puzzles that I like most, and that Sven Egevad called "many-in-goal". Regarding the second puzzle ("j1010"), there are two remodels of York Shen a little more difficult. Enjoy!

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Author: gyjgw
Title: jgw005
Date: c. 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 541/190

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Author: gyjgw
Title: j1010
Date: c. 2004
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 330/136

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Author: gyjgw
Title: j1031
Date:  2004
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 746/130


Bonus!
For technical cracks, this small beautiful diamond:

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Author: gyjgw
Title: j1059g 
Date: c. 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 400/97
 

Sokoban lessons - Numbers

Then I post a selection of puzzles with "numbers". In my opinion they are the most beautiful and fun to solve. I've tried that are represented different styles, authors and difficulties.

This post complements the previous on "Letters & words".  

You can download this set (except commercial puzzles) here:

• Numbers

Updated 2014.1.11
 

I forgot to include "Magic Square" (MF8 53rd Sokoban Competition, Extra). This has now been added in the list (see end of page) and in the downloadable file.

Author: Masaki Ishino
Title: Sokoban Perfect #296
Date: 1989
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 682/288 (yutaka yamada)

Author: monry
Title: The 21th stage, fever series 3
Comment: from BanSoko 132
Date: 1992.1.10
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 138/33

Goals: "777".
 

Author: monry
Title: Tenchi Muyo series 011
Date: 1995.1.5
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 59/20

Goals/boxes: "11". 

In the "Tenchi Muyo series", the arrangement of the boxes is reversed with respect to goals (double rotation of 180º vertical/horizontal). For more information on this series, see the old website "NotTurn" of Monry (at Internet Archive): https://web.archive.org/web/20001202001300/http://www.enjoy.ne.jp/~monry/NotTurn/NotTurn.htm 

Author: monry
Title: Tenchi Muyo series 222
Date: 1998.9.17
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 159/46

Goals/boxes: "222".

Author: monry
Title: Tenchi Muyo series 278
Date: 1992.3.18
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 302/102

Goals/boxes: "278".

Author: Howard Abed
Title: SokoCreation #64 New millenium
Date: 2000
Difficulty: 7 (H.A.)
Best moves/pushes: 312/119 (Archanfel)

Goals: "2000".

Author: 20603
Title: 英雄无名 (A Hero with no name) <1002a>
Date: c. 2001
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 399/120

"20603" is a pseudonym of the author, Yongzhong Zou.

Author: Jiří Petrák
Title: One
Date: 2003.1.7
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 349/142

Author: František Pokorný
Title: #31 PF 2004
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 419/104

Goals: "04". Incredibly hard!

Author: gyjgw
Title: 20041019
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 746/130 

"gyjgw" built a series with the numbers 1 to 8; some are difficult chessboards (numbers 1, 3, 6, 7, 8). This is probably the easiest of the series, but also very nice and fun to solve.

Author: František Pokorný
Title: #57 PF 2005
Date: 2004.5.15
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 875/180

Goals: "2005". Another difficult "happy new year".

Author: gyjgw
Title: 2005
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 1155/249

Author: gyjgw
Title: 0-8
Date: c. May 2005
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 567/180 

There are several variations of this puzzle, progressively more complicated, as well as remodels of York Shen and LZY. This is the second version, relatively easy.

Author: gyjgw
Title: 20060311a
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 993/153

Goals/boxes: "11", the day it was built this puzzle.

Author: Thinking Rabbit + Jordi Doménech + anian + Tian Lang
Title: MF8 7th Sokoban Competition (October, 2009) a
Date: 2009.10.25
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 2872/957

The goals of the central area are the Chinese number 七 ("7"). This level is based on "Original remixed" #20.

Author: Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Doménech
Title: Chuchubi 8 #40 Big one (a)
Date: December 2009. Remodel: 2013.12.30
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 899/339

Unpublished remodel, special for this post :)

Author: Mic + Jordi Doménech
Title: Level of the month, january 2000/1 (c)
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 1 #37
Comment: change "2000" to "2010", added 8 walls
Date remodel: March 2010
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 324/110

Author: Jordi Doménech
Title: Miniatures - Part Two #8 Seven
Date: December 2010
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 112/28

Author: laizhufu + Tian Lang
Title: Clock
Date: 2011.5.16
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 340/106

Author: Eric F. Tchong + zhenying
Title: Chuchubi 14 #30 Ode to Mic 2010 (2012)
Date: July 2011. Remodel: 2011.10.10
URL: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/77451918201110124159392/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 652/179

Goals: "2012".

Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #42
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 421/165

Goals: "1 2 3 4 5 7 6 8 9".

Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #224 Homage to laizhufu ("Keyboard")
Comment: Here I responded to published Sokoban's "Keyboard" from laizhufu
Date: April 2012
Difficulty: 7 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 867/309 (Archanfel)

Author: Many illusions + shamying + stopheart
Title: 2012 b (MF8 46th Sokoban Competition, Extra)
Date: 2013.5.3
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=96689&extra=page%3D1
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 796/220

Author: Yang Chao + Jordi Doménech
Title: 404 not found (a)
Date: 2013.10.19 Remodel: 2013.10.31
URL: sokoban.org/play.php?id=64
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 228/70

Author: zhouxh + gyjgw
Title: 河洛图 (Magic square) - MF8 53rd Sokoban Competition, Extra
Date: 2013.11.15
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=100167&extra=page%3D1
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 820/247 (一目了然)

Goals: "2 9 4 / 7 5 3 / 6 1 8", a "magic square": if we add the numbers in rows, columns or diagonal, the result is always 15.

New additions

These new additions are not incorporated yet in the downloadable file.

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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".

Oldies - A remodel of Monry

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Author: meg & monry
Title: 改造か盗作か (Remodeling or plagiarism?)
Set: monry #25
Date: 1992.5.7

Finally, I have found a solution to this fantastic remodel of Monry, dated 1992.5.7. Long ago, several times I tried to solve it, but without success. Almost I came to think that was unsolvable!...

Questions: Who is "meg"? Do you know the original level? Why this strange title "Remodeling or plagiarism"? Can anyone provide more information about the original level or this remodel?


Přemysl Zíka sent me this remodel:

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Author: meg & monry + Premysl Zika
Title: Remodeling or plagiarism? - a
Set: monry #25
Comment: change 2 targets + little changes
Date: 1992.5.7. Remodel: 2014.1.3