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.

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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".