As in other Sokoban lessons, in this selection of puzzles of seven boxes (with rooms), I tried to choose levels fun to solve, and that the most of authors will be represented.
An author highlights in a special way: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha). All its levels of seven boxes are excellent, small jewels.
See also "Lines (5-8 boxes)".
With regard to the concept of "room", see the explanation in "Sokoban lessons - Three boxes (with rooms)".
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: Takahiro Suzushima
Title: Soukoban (Riverhill Soft, Game Gear) #256
Date: December 1990. Published later in Sokoban Revenge (1991) #40 Relaxation
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 540/189
Beautiful level with three columns and storage area.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #59 直四と直三 (Three and four straight)
Date: 1998.11.15
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 503/113
Simple level, but not obvious.
Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Nakamiya #07
Comment: published also in Monster Sokoban 7-7
Date: c. July 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 212/34
Logic level. It seems easy, but it is not...
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Picokosmos #3
Subtitle: Prison (Jail)
Comment: Pour sortir de la prison, ça va. Mais pour la reconstruire,
c'est autre chose.
Date: September 2001
Website (mirror): www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 9 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 191/49
A pseudo square inside a cross-shaped structure... If it rains and do not know what to do, you can entertain yourself with this one.
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Picokosmos #13
Subtitle: Bateau (boat)
Comment: Le thème du sablier ou des vases communicants. Pas de problème
d'espace, mais il faut tout de même trouver le bon chemin.
Date: November 2001
Website (mirror): www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 9 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 191/78
Two halves... Try not to spend your life moving boxes from one half to another... My difficulty rating: 7.5.
Author: David Holland + Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha) + François Marques
Title: bagatelle #10 bis
Date: 2002.5.8
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 364/79
Very elegant remodel of François Marques. Later remodels of this level by GRIGoRusha would result in #127 Ziko-City.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #120 Depth
Date: July 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 488/154
Nice rotatory level with storage in the center.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #121 Honour
Date: July 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 574/174
Fantastic rotatory level! Try not to spend hours and hours rotating the boxes around... See also the similar level GrigrSpecial #15, perhaps a little more difficult.
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #33 Chair and table
Date: December 2003
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 217/46
Amazing level, much more difficult than it seems.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrSpecial #13 Soldafon
Date: March 2004
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 398/121
This puzzle and the next are very studied and difficult levels with non-obvious moves.
Author: Nakamiya + Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrSpecial #14 Lost Hunter
Comment: for Nakamiya
Date: March 2004
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 393/106
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: 81 #20
Date: November 2004
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 124/19
Simple and beautiful logic level.
Author: Kevin B. Reilly
Title: #2021
Date: c. 2005
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 109/24
Not too difficult, but very nice.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #14
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 259/47
These four levels of TBox5 are little jewels. Incredibly good and fun to solve!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #26
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 262/65
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #39
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 489/112
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #40
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 391/114
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrSpecial02a
Set: Remodel Club #88
Date: 2005.10.6
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 638/148
Incredible miniature "six+"! Obviously, the biggest problem is to place the box in D4 - and then build the "six". To do this, you must keep open the puzzle, to be able to turn around. The problem is: where to place the 6 remaining boxes?
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". Minimalist storage, it needs subtle moves. Fun to solve.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrStar #27 Good House
Date: 2008.1.25
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 324/109
Beautiful level and fun storage!
Author: Edwin Abbot
Title: Flatland #3
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 343/115
Technically, is not a perfect level, because the only difficulty is to place the first box. It is the same defect that other levels in this excellent collection. However, it is not at all easy.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #133
Date: 2011
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 457/130
Simple and fun rotatory level, in the clasic Přemysl Zíka style.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 2 #35 Pardon the Interruption
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 335/87
Small nitghmare. Take it calmly.
The best puzzles of 7 boxes of Thomas Reinke are "lines": see TBox2 #8 and Quagmire3 #32 and #90, posted in "Lines (5-8 boxes)".
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 35 #16
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 228/69
Marcus Hof has other puzzles of 7 boxes more difficult, but these four simple levels are my favorites.
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 36 #36 arr.
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 291/87
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 36 #122
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 486/166
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 38 #55
Date: May 2012
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 481/106
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #49
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 424/159
Fun storage level.
Author: David Buchweitz + Jordi Domènech
Title: Chrysalis Collection 8 #13 a
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 5 #40
Websites:
www.letslogic.com
sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Date: 2013.11.13
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 391/54
Logic.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #19
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 231/82
Strange pinwheel.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Tertius gradus ad Olympo #10
Date: I.2014-XI.2015
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 554/127
Excellent! It is a puzzle that could sign Yoshio Sakae.
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #23 'r1'
Date: January 2015
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 559/100
Fun storage level. The great difficulty is that there is always a box of hindrance in the storage area...
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #25 Picasso
Date: January 2015
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 636/97
Tricky level... Really, it looks like a face of Picasso...
Author: Morganine
Title: Randoms #41
Date: July 2015
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 404/102
Claustrophobic level with several non-obvious moves.
Author: Morganine
Title: Randoms #71 arr.
Date: July 2015
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 407/103
Level of ugly look, but surprising: is more complicated than it seems.
Other puzzles
- Edwin Abbot 2
- Serg Belyaev
svb382
- Kevin Cassol
SokoChallenge 13
- Jordi Domènech
Magic Sokoban 1 43 (Kevin Cassol)
The beautiful world of remodels 5 40
Alberto Garcia remixed 59
- Sven Egevad
SE 804
- Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Grigr2001 37
GrigrSpecial 15, 20 (see also Remodel Club 93), 25
GrigrStar 8
GrigrSun 5
Remodel Club 68, 92, 96, 105
- Marcus Hof
Revenge 22 3; 30 17, 25; 36 36, 103, 116, 118; 37 41
- David Holland
cantrip2 3
- Morganine
Randoms 6, 82
- Yoshio Murase
handmade 35
- František Pokorný 51
- Kevin B. Reilly 1506
- Thomas Reinke
TBox 49, 50
TBox5 13, 28
Calx 7
Anomaly2 27
Quagmire2 17, 21, 47
Quagmire3 23
- Shaggath
V2009 144
V2010 151
V2014 19
- David W. Skinner
Sasquatch XI 11
- Keijo Sopuli
KEAS Collection 14
- Eric F. Tchong
Atlas4 12
- Thinking Rabbit
Sokoban Perfect 190 (Hidemitsu Kobayashi), 230
- Přemysl Zíka
Primus Gradus ad Olympo 46, 48
Secundus Gradus ad Olympo 17
Tertius Gradus ad Olympo 11
The "line" is one of the figures most simple and classic of Sokoban. In this post I publish a selection of my favorite "lines", between 5 and 8 boxes.
In some puzzles I accept one or even two boxes of hindrance, but always independent of the "line".
See also:
Lines (four boxes)
Big lines
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: Takahiro Suzushima + Yoshio Sakae
Title: Ultimate Sokoban (1996) Stage 3 Chapter 4 Level 3
Previous versions: Sokoban Deluxe (1990) 4-? stage 7; then in Sokoban Revenge (1991) #286 Long Road
Date: 1990. Remodel: 1996
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 277/80
Interesting improved version by Yoshio Sakae of Sokoban Revenge #286 Long Road.
Author: J. Franklin Mentzer + Jordi Domènech
Title: Still more! #20 b
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 5 #58
Comment: redraw map, added 2 boxes, some changes
Date: 1993. Remodel: 2014.3.18
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 507/151
One of my favorite puzzles ... After two previous remodels, I have finally found what I was looking for.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #79 直五シリーズ (Five straight Series)
Date: 1998.12.1
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 289/55
Excellent! See also monry-light #74.
Author: Howard Abed
Title: SokoCreation #55
Date: 1999 (Second Set #29), then remodeled in SokoCreation (2000)
Difficulty: 6 (H.A.)
Best moves/pushes: 79/18
Totally classic. A little gem. My difficulty rating: 4.
Author: Kevin B. Reilly + Masato Hiramatsu
Title: sokomind 07 (C)
Date: 2000.2.24
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 228/77
Great remodel. Typical problem: to place the first box, previously it is necessary to rearrange all the boxes in the correct position in the cargo area.
Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Nakamiya #9
Comment: also published in Monster Sokoban 8-2
Date: June-July 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 535/150
Nice line. 308 moves are required to place the first box.
Author: Yoshio Murase
Title: handmade #52 小さなひょうたん (Small gourd)
Comment:
下から栓をしないように気をつけて。
Date: 2001.3.6 (creation), 2001.5.20 (publication)
Website: www.ne.jp/asahi/ai/yoshio/sokoban/index.html
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 81/23
Simple and nice. A little gem.
Author: François Marques
Title: Sokompact #46 Plus - Minus
Date: November 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 200/58
A line within a cross... A total nightmare! Take it easy... By François Marques see also Kokoban #16 and Sokompact #40 (another difficult compact).
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Picokosmos #17
Subtitle: Grand Hanoï (Big Hanoï)
Comment:
Sur le même thème que Picokosmos 12. Une caisse en plus, mais plus compact. Que de mouvements pour un niveau aussi petit!! Soyez méthodique surtout...
Date: December 2001
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 10 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 494/167
This type of puzzle is known as "Fibo" (by the Italian mathematician of the 12th century, Fibonacci, introducer in Europe of the "Fibonacci sequence"). It is one of the most famous puzzles of Sokoban. As in the Fibonacci sequence, each box which you add increases exponentially the number of moves/pushes needed to solve it: see "Theoretical analysis on Picokosmos 17" by David Holland (article published in the old website of Aymeric du Peloux). Many versions of this puzzle have been made. See also Picokosmos #12 (Hanoi).
Author: Mic + Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: monthly85a - January 2002 Monthly level remodel
Set: Remodel Club #15
Date: January 2002. Remodel: 2002.10.31
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 526/157
Puzzle looks a little ugly and apparently not difficult, but it is necessary to do a lot of maneuvers to place the first box.
Author: David W. Skinner + Jordi Domènech
Title: Sasquatch VI #12 a
Comment: stoned 2 floors
Date: October 2002. Remodel: 2014.12.27
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 221/62
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #135 Mekom
Date: November 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 358/115
Difficult line with rooms at the four corners. See also Grigr2001 #30 and #53, and GrigrComet #27.
Author: Kevin B. Reilly + Jordi Domènech
Title: Magic Sokoban 3 #96
Comment: based on kbr1211
Date: November 2002. Remodel: 2012.7.5
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 342/79
A lot of non-obvious maneuvers is necessary to place the first box...
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #36 Warm up
Date: February 2004
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 186/48
Nice puzzle that reminds Nabokosmos #2 by Aymeric du Peloux. See also the puzzle similar #34.
Author: Kenyam (Kenya Maruyama)
Title: #38 one line below
Comment: Think a way, get away.
Date: 2004.9.26
Website: www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Domino/7999/soko/skrmc_a.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 266/73
Excellent line! Fun to solve, and puzzle aesthetically very nice. See also #32 and #35, both difficult compact.
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Cosmonotes #19 arr.
Date: c. October 2004
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 8 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 267/69
Excellent line and fun to solve. My difficulty rating: 6.5. See also Nabokosmos #17.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox2 #8
Date: January 2005
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 191/74
Typical puzzle in two halves. Funny!
Author: Dries De Clercq + Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrSpecial #34 Unfinished Line
Date: 2005.3.30
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 318/90
Simple "pillar" with a box of hindrance. Absolutely classic.
Author: Hu Yibin
Title: #2
Date: 2003.4.19, 2004.7.10, 2005.2.26, 2005.4.30
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 337/88
Puzzle apparently simple, but unexpectedly difficult...
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Calx #2
Date: July 2005
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 107/29
Simple and nice line... Cross-shaped structure, with two arms connected by a double ring.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Calx #18 arr.
Date: July 2005
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 182/34
Excellent! I've taken the liberty to rearrange the initial position of the boxes.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Microban IV #47
Date: August 2010
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 249/64
Logic. Typical problem: previously, rearranges all the boxes in the correct position. See other "lines": Sasquatch V #10 and VII #7.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 2 #12 Singlet
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 88/38
Beautiful puzzle: a line within a structure in the shape of a cross of Lorraine.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 2 #22 Sovereign Entity
Date: November 2011
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 144/20
Logic.
Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #57
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 240/83
Surprisingly hard! You'll have to put your elbows on the table to solve it.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #180
Date: February 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 218/61
Fun "pillar", not so easy...
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #183
Comment: Joke problem
Date: February 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 4.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 1715/623
Incredible soko-toy! Přemysl Zíka is an craftsman inventor of fantastic "mechanisms" of Sokoban... My difficulty rating: 6.5.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #198
Date: March 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 349/69
One of my favorite puzzles in this set...
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #238
Date: April 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 742/201
Relatively easy, but very nice and fun to solve.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch XII #40
Date: April 2012
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1167/178
Another soko-toy. It is an extension of Microban #71 and #124, and Sasquatch IV #8.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #39
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 4 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 216/47
Simple and nice. You have to dismantle the line and rebuild it again... the difficulty is the box of hindrance.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #51
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 3.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 331/101
Puzzle looks a bit ugly, but you have to sweat to solve it... My difficulty rating: 6.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #13
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 4.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 293/110
Amazing line! Entirely logical. My difficulty rating: 6.5.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 3 #32 Iniquity
Date: April 2014
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 340/117
Excellent! Very original and tight!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 3 #90 Ionization
Date: April 2014
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 344/74
Fantastic maze! A line at the intersection of two double rings... You have to give a lot of turns...
In addition to the levels above-mentioned, see also:
- Howard Abed
Second Set #15
- Serg Belyaev
svb096, 144, 334
- Dries De Clerq
Sokodries1 #41
Fibo #8, 10
- Jordi Domènech
Magic Sokoban 1 #69, 97; 2 #93; 4 #39, 58; 5 #42, 101
Microban variations III #18
- Sven Egevad
SE 914, 967, 1140, 1163, 1351, 1679
- Evgeny Grigoriev
Grigr2001 #27, 30, 53
GrigrComet #27
- Marcus Hof
Revenge 34 #64
- David Holland + York Shen
bagatelle #1a
- Hiroki Kanou + Ken'ichiro Takahashi (Takaken)
kanou #5
- Kenyam #1, 32, 35, 37
- Aleksey Krupenko
Sonic #4
- François Marques
Sokolate #39
Kokoban #16
Sokompact #40
- Ghislain Martin
SokoStation #139, 248
- monry
FirstStep 502, 603 (F) (remodel by Hir)
monry-light #54, 74
- Aymeric du Peloux
Microcosmos #11
Myriocosmos #6
Nabokosmos #17
Picokosmos #12
František Pokorný #58
- Kevin B. Reilly
kbr501, 634, 667, 833, 872, 873, 876, 1197, 1402, 1403, 1462, 1501, 1504, 1508, 1516, 1599
- Thomas Reinke
81 #17
Quagmire #48, 50; 2 #41; 3 #83
Anomaly 3 #7
Scoria 3 #4
TBox #12, 14, 21, 35; 2 #10, 21; 5 #28, 41, 50
- Shaggath
Mulholland 2 #68
Mulholland D #13, 16, 20
V2009 #86
V2010 #25
V2014 #62
- David W. Skinner
Microban #106; II #97, 120, 127; III #34, 39; IV #10
Sasquatch V #10, VII #7
- Thinking Rabbit
Sokoban Perfect #230
Sokoban Revenge #15 (Hiroshi Yamamoto), 22 (Yoshio Sakae), 49 (Yoshio Sakae)
Sokoban Deluxe (1990) 3-B
Sokoban Nanmon Shinan (1999) #81
- niwa
Square Dance #17
- Premysl Zíka
First levels #100, 108, 114
Primus gradus ad Olympo #46, 54
Secundus gradus ad Olympo #21
