04 May 2016

Sokoban lessons - Mazes

A maze is a structure without rooms (with regard to the concept of "room", see the explanation in "Sokoban lessons. Three boxes - with rooms"). In some cases, I also include puzzles with rooms, but only if these are equivalent to less than 8 % of the size of the puzzle. This criterion excludes puzzles that probably can be considered also mazes, but I have not found another criterion better.

With some exceptions, I do not include small puzzles (3, 4 boxes...).

You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
 
Mazes




Author: Yasuhiro Morita + Přemysl Zíka
Title: Sokoban Perfect #103 c
Set: Primus gradus ad Olympo #108
Comment: add 4 boxes, slight changes
Date: 1989. Remodel: December 2012
Difficulty: 7 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 518/105 (Sokobano)





Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #272 隠し砦の3悪人 (3 villains hidden in the fortress)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 484/83


See also other similar levels of Yoshio Sakae in Ultimate Sokoban (1996) stage 2 chapter 2 level 2, and stage 2 chapter 4 level 4.



Author: Hiroshi Yamamoto
Title: Sokoban Revenge #278 メビウス (Moebius)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 141/28




Author: J. Franklin Metzer
Title: Still More! #35
Date: 1993
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 206/47





Author: David W. Skinner + York Shen
Title: Sasquatch #37 a
Comment: added 12 boxes
Date: January 1999. Remodel: November 2002
Website (mirror): Sokoban puzzles by David W. Skinner
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 627/192 (xbluejimx)





Author: Yut + Jordi Domènech + stopheart + David Holland
Title: 一本道の迷路 (A road into the labyrinth) g
Date: c. June 1999. Remodel: 2010.7.23
URL: games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sokoban/message/3783
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 357/91




Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch II #23
Date: August 1999

Website (mirror): Sokoban puzzles by David W. Skinner
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 1475/113





Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Microcosmos #22
Subtitle: Keno
Comment: Un de mes niveaux "chorégraphiques" où l'on fait "danser les caisses". Ce sont des niveaux "rotatifs" harmonieux (comme Microcosmos 09, 16 ou 31)
Date: August 2000
Website (mirror): Sokoban
Difficulty: 5 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 170/57





Author: Kevin B. Reilly + Jordi Domènech
Title: kevin671 a
Set: The beautiful wordl of remodels 5 #10
Comment: redraw and reduce map
Date: September 2000. Remodel: 2012.5.24
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 645/191





Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch V #46
Date: December 2001
 
Website (mirror): Sokoban puzzles by David W. Skinner
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1378/328 (Georgi Georgiev)





Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Microban II #133 Pulsar
Date: April 2002
 
Website (mirror): Sokoban puzzles by David W. Skinner
Difficulty: 3
Best moves/pushes: 618/11





Author: Evgeny Grigoriev
Title: Grigr2002 #116 Sheriff
Date: July 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 343/87





Author: François Marques
Title: Le concurs du moi #24 The maze
Comment: Le concurs du mois de février 2003
Date: 2003/01/22
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1545/280 (Sokobano)





Author: Panda + York Shen
Title: Panda 92 #58
Date: c. 2004
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 886/232





Author: Ghislain Martin
Title: SokoStation #227 PETITE SPIRALE
Date: 2005/08/10
Website: www.sokoban.fr
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 223/7




Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire #43
Date: October 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 301/48





Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1335
Date: 2005
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 211/51




Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1563
Date: 2006
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 353/77



 
Author: Ivelin Georgiev Ivanov
Title: The Adventurer #1 Lost Trinity
Date: March 2007
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 642/139




Author: Martí Homs
Title: Interesting Device-Based Levels #6 arr.
Date: 2007
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 907/60

These "devices" (or "gates", according to the terminology of Dries De Clercq) are really crazy. Take it calmly.




Author: Dries De Clercq
Title: Gate #3 arr.
Date: 2007
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 972/134




Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokodeal #39
Date: September 2008
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1531/482

I have rotated 90º the original level.





Author: W. M. Dekker
Title: Soundextensions and Circles #6 Circle 1
Date: March 2009
Difficulty: 1
Best moves/pushes: 1372/2





Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch IX #36
Date: April 2009
 

Website (mirror): Sokoban puzzles by David W. Skinner
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 303/98 (Georgi Georgiev)





Author: XiBei Tian Lang
Title: 卧薪尝胆 (Revival)
Date: 2010.1.25
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=46703&extra=page%3D3&page=5
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 201/21





Author: Kevin Cassol
Title: Fusion #2
Date: July 2011
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=17982
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 4271/1398 (Ficko)





Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #243 EU - chaos and tragedy
Date: May 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 23357/4334 (Archanfel)





Author: laizhufu
Title: 六道轮回 (Six Samsara)
Comment:
佛教的轮回:“六道轮回”,他们认为一切有生命的东西,如不寻求“解脱”,就永远在“六道” (天、人、阿修罗、畜生、饿鬼、地狱) 中生死相续,无有止息。你相信吗?
Date: 2012.5.30
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=51
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 608/156





Author: laizhufu
Title: 北斗七星 (Big Dipper)
Date: 2012.12.14
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 639/195

In the initial position, placed boxes and not placed boxes, draw a double "Big Dipper" (the seven stars more visible of the Ursa Major). The goals area is the Chinese number seven, 七 (by the 7 stars). The interior walls are the Chinese characters - though slightly deformed - 北斗 (above) and 星 (below), so that together with the character 七 (goals area) they form the word 北斗七星 ("Big Dipper").





Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #20
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 646/160




Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #27
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 433/152





Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #48
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 4.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 203/72





Author: Alberto Garcia + Jordi Domènech
Title: Alberto Garcia remixed #78
Comment: based on Fantasy #50
Date: January 2013
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 474/78 (Findus)




Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Tertius gradus ad Olympo #23
Date: I.2014-XI.2015
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 445/114





Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #27 Twisted
Date: 2014
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 458/80





Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #31 Classical Labyrinth #2
Date: 2014.3.9
URL: sokoban.org/level.php?id=169
Difficulty: 9
Best moves/pushes: 4875/439

Probably, the best maze of all time.





Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 3 #10 Bread and Circuses
Date: April 2014
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 277/60





Author: David Buchweitz
Title: Chrysalis Collection 9 #37
Date: May 2014
Website: www.letslogic.com
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 746/141 (ejsantos123)




Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Life #26 Marrakesh souk
Date: December 2015
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 675/96





Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: 2016 - Happy New Year
Date: January 2016
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=93241
Difficulty: 3
Best moves/pushes: 2016/329

The goal of this maze is to solve it in 2016 moves.