David W. Skinner (Grandview, Washington, USA) is one of the most famous authors of Sokoban. This well-deserved fame is due, largely, to its spectacular symmetrical puzzles, some of big size; and, secondly, to its long dedication to Sokoban during more than 13 years, since January 1999.
The 600 puzzles of the XII sets of Sasquatch can be grouped into these four major types:
- symmetrical levels 278 levels
- storage 74 "
- maze (only in the first sets I-IV) 9 "
- small levels (less than 10 boxes) and other 239 "
In Sasquatch Challenge I have selected my 80 favorite levels. With few exceptions, they are of medium difficulty and fun to solve. I have chosen these levels:
Sasquatch I: 9, 12, 19, 27, 29, 46, 48, 49 = 8 levels
II: 5, 7, 10, 23, 29, 31, 38, 42 = 8 "
III: 3, 4, 22, 26, 28, 33, 34, 43 = 8 "
IV: 2, 8, 9, 20, 25, 29, 30, 31, 36, 41, 44, 49 = 12 "
V: 10, 25, 27, 31, 46 = 5 "
VI: 10, 11, 31, 35, 42, 43, 49 = 7 "
VII: 3, 23, 27, 36, 43, 44, 47, 48 = 8 "
VIII: 36, 41, 48 = 3 "
IX: 13, 14, 16, 31, 36, 37, 39, 47 = 8 "
X: 23, 26, 30, 31, 37, 49 = 6 "
XI: 11, 12, 23, 31, 45, 46, 50 = 7 "
I add also 33 remodels - usually hard - of York Shen, gyjgw, GRIGoRusha, stopheart, zhenying, Přemysl Zíka, and myself.
You can download this set here:
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
According to the terminology used by Sven Egevad, "many-in-goal" is the puzzle in which all the boxes are placed except a minimum percentage.
In this post, the conditions for which a puzzle is considered as "many-in-goal", are these:
- Maximum size of the puzzles: 80 boxes. I reserve the puzzles of larger size for another post :P
- Maximum number of boxes unplaced: 10 %. Example, for a puzzle of 60 boxes, maximum number of boxes unplaced = 6. Anyway, this last criterion is flexible in some cases.
See also Small "fix one".
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #288a
Comment: added 1 box
First release of the original level: Sokoban (1985, Sega), #69; then in Sokoban Perfect (1989).
Date: 1985. Remodel: July 2003
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 335/124
A mystery not yet unveiled: do have any meaning the three signs that make up the boxes/goals?
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + 李金玉 (Li Jinyu) + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #215k
Comment: enlarge map, changed 6 boxes to walls, added 1 box
First release of the original level: Sokoban (1985, Sega), #88; then in Sokoban Perfect (1989).
Date: 1985. Remodel: December 2003
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 718/240
Fantastic "diamond"! For specialists ... See also the version "i", perhaps a little more difficult, but the diamond is larger (95 boxes).
Author: Yoshio Sakae + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #251g
Comment: added 9 boxes
Date: 1989. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 440/148
Very tight! Take it calmly...
Author: Hir (Masato Hiramatsu)
Title: Sokoban Revenge level 279 arranged
Comment: from BanSoko 071
First version of the original level: Sokoban (1985, Sega) #74; then in Sokoban Perfect (1989) #84. Remodels: Sokoban Perfect #305 (Masaki Ishino) and Sokoban Revenge (1991) #279 (Kazuo Fukushima)
Date: 1991. Remodel: 1997.9.24
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 388/143
The structure of this curious puzzle is very original: two diamonds connected by top and bottom. I don't know why, remember me two Oriental lanterns...
The first version of this puzzle was published in Sokoban (1985, Sega) #74, then in Sokoban Perfect (1989) #84. Inexplicably, this first version is very easy, and perhaps why two remodels were made: the first, in the same collection Sokoban Perfect #305 (by Masaki Ishino), and then another remodel in Sokoban Revenge #279 (by Kazuo Fukushima).
Then I publish the three remodels which in my opinion are the best of this classic puzzle.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + Masaki Ishino + York Shen + GRIGoRusha + gyjgw
Title: Sokoban Perfect #305j
Comment:
added 5 boxes - Y.S.
added 1 box - GRIGoRusha
stoned 2 boxes - gyjgw
First version of the original level: Sokoban (1985, Sega) #74; then in Sokoban Perfect (1989) #84, and remodeled in Sokoban Perfect #305 (Masaki Ishino)
Date: 1989. Remodel: 2008.5.24
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 492/169
Good remodel, but has one flaw: the box/goal in the upper left can be replaced by a wall.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + Jordi Domènech + David Holland
Title: Sokoban Perfect #84 c1
First version of the original level: Sokoban (1985, Sega) #74; then in Sokoban Perfect (1989)
Date: 1989. Remodel: 2010.8.3
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 510/127
The difficulty of this remodel is that it forces to keep open the way in the entire circuit, to place the box in the upper right.
Author: Takahiro Suzushima + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Revenge #127 Semi field (b)
Comment: added a box
First release of the original level: Sokoban (1990, Sega Game Gear), #261; then in Sokoban Revenge (1991)
Date: 1990. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 508/106
Excellent remodel of York Shen that forces us to perform an ingenious maneuver on the left side.
Author: Yoshio Sakae + York Shen + gyjgw
Title: Sokoban Revenge #283 ピラミッド・ソーコビアン (Pyramid Sokoban) b
Comment:
added 6 boxes - Y.S.
added 1 box - gyjgw
Date: 1991. Remodel: January 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 366/214
This puzzle is a simple curiosity. Ideal to practice the technique of the "zipper"...
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Ultimate Sokoban (1996, Itochu) Stage 2 Chapter 3 Level 3
Date: 1996
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 128/43
Small and simple "diamond", but ingenious and beautiful to solve :) According to the credits of Ultimate Sokoban (1996), the author of the levels of this collection was Yoshio Sakae.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch VI #42
Date: October 2002
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 323/122 (Philippe Lamat)
Classic "rings". There are extended versions of up to 5 rings, of York Shen and others.
Author: dzxmer + gyjgw
Title: Panda 92 #65a
Note: in the sets of Sokoban levels of gyjgw, this level has the titles gy_0130 and j1024
Date: July 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 374/126
Another nice puzzle with the classic theme of the "rings". The biggest difficulty is the closure.
Author: gyjgw + York Shen + Tian Lang
Title: gy_0073d (j1021d)
Date: July 2004
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1452/273
Excellent remodel of Tian Lang in which it is necessary to move all the boxes.
Author: gyjgw + York Shen
Title: 20041019a (j1031a)
Comment: not so difficult. Version a
Date: October 2004
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 758/178
Fantastic number "2"! Interesting and fun to solve.
Author: Erim Sever + York Shen
Title: erim178b
Date: c. 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 627/87
This excellent remodel was posted in the Chinese forum SuperSoko, and is the same puzzle that "erim178b" in the "sharpen collection". Very interesting and fun to solve.
Author: Erim Sever + Marek Letrab + York Shen
Title: erim181g
Date: c. 2004
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 792/244
Double ring inside a windmill-shaped structure.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 979
Comment: many-in-goal hard
Date: 2004
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 261/84 (Georgi Georgiev)
Strangely difficult ... :P See also, in the same series, SE 977.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1530
Comment: many-in-goal hard
Date: 2006
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 370/88
Stoned chessboard, and player start in the center.
Author: gyjgw
Title: 20060311c
Date: 2006.3.11
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1809/363
"11". Another fun soko-number.
Author: Eric F. Tchong + York Shen
Title: Chuchubi 2 #79 Rattlesnake (arr.)
Date: February 2008
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 266/49
Excellent remodel! I have taken the freedom of arrange the map.
Author: Dries De Clercq
Title: Mill-134
Date: 2008.3.2
URL: groups.yahoo.com/group/sokoban/message/2590
Difficulty: 9
Best moves/pushes: 4876/712 (Findus)
"Orimaze" is an acronym for "oriented maze". This difficult type of puzzles was created by Dries De Clercq. I recommend starting by "orimazes" simpler, to familiarize yourself with the technique of resolution (see "Orimaze" collection). Comment from Dries De Clercq on its website: "This is a 5x5 orimaze with a hole in the middle. This mill turns a lot!"
Author: zhenying + Jordi Domènech + gyjgw + stopheart
Title: Based on zhenying #61-31 e
Date: 2010.10.4. Remodel: 2011.9.1
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=54431&extra=page%3D1&page=14
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 520/129
Nice stoned chessboard.
Author: zhenying
Title: 61-36
Comment: 元旦
Date: 2011.1.1
URL: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/7745191820110310253879/
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 436/118
The two Chinese characters 元旦 mean "New Year's Day". Exceptional puzzle, one of the best of the year 2011.
Author: laizhufu + Jordi Domènech + stopheart + Tian Lang
Title: ABC (d)
Date: 2011.4.6
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=8
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 430/94
Interesting and fun "ABC". It is part of the series "Letters", posted by laizhufu and other authors in the Chinese forum MF8 along 2011.
Author: Eric F. Tchong + anian + stopheart
Title: Chuchubi 15 #32 Arubian rattlesnake eric var 2x(a)
Date: December 2011. Remodel: 2012.3.4
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=71
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 1155/256
I know up to 14 versions and remodels of "Arubian rattlesnake". The first version of Eric F. Tchong was published in Atlas 1 #100. See also the remodel "Arubian rattlesnake B" (anian + stopheart + Eric F. Tchong + TianLang + gyjgw).
Author: gyjgw
Title: 2004-01-08 MF8 8th anniversary - MF8 30th Sokoban Competition
Date: 2011.12.2
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=84540&extra=page%3D1&page=1
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 397/125
On the right side, from top to bottom it reads "8 年" ("8 years"). This nice puzzle was designed to commemorate the eight years of the Chinese forum FM8. Very fun to solve!
Author: laizhufu
Title: 生命 (Life)
Date: 2012.2.8
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=41
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 514/130
Fantastic puzzle! The two Chinese characters 生命 mean "life". This puzzle was posted after copying the lyrics of "生命之曲" ("Song of Life", October 1988) of the "cantopop" George Lam. In YouTube: 生命之曲.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #256
Date: May 2012
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 555/137 (Sokobano)
Hard! Double ring inside a windmill-shaped structure, with boxes of hindrance in the "arms". Puzzle very technical and hard, recommended for experienced players.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #258 Triple blockade
Date: June 2012
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 373/62
Another technical puzzle. Apparently similar to the previous one, but this is more logical.
Author: 风过了无痕 (SokoWind) + stopheart + gyjgw
Title: 睿斗推箱子第26关(电) (Riddle Sokoban #26 Electricity) e
Date: 2012.7.18
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=84
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 597/165
电 = "electricity" (or perhaps "lightning"...). Although this remodel has 7 unplaced boxes, I include it also in this selection.
Author: 风过了无痕 (SokoWind) + gyjgw + stopheart + anian
Title: 睿斗推箱子第31关(A面B面) (Riddle Sokoban #31 A side B side) b2
Date: 2012.7.19
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=85
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 478/111
A side B side. The double life (2010) is a film from the Chinese director Ning Ying. As the previous one, is equally interesting and fun to solve.
Author: unknown + Jordi Domènech + Přemysl Zíka
Title: SEGA (b)
Comment:
The original level is the "Round demo" in Sokoban (Sega, 1985).
J.D.: reduce the map, added 4 walls, move 2 boxes
P.Z.: canceled the upper niche
Date: 1985. Remodels: 2012.9.16 J.D., 2014.9.28 P.Z.
Difficulty: 8 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 331/98
Hard! Take it calmy...
Author: 风过了无痕 (SokoWind) + Jordi Domènech + Přemysl Zíka
Title: 睿斗关卡39关-灯笼芯 (Riddle Sokoban #39 Lantern) b
Comment:
added 2 boxes, 8 walls - J.D.
added 2 boxes. Two new targets - in the middle and at the bottom... Lots of challenging! - P.Z.
Date: 2012. Remodels: 2012.9.22 J.D., 2014.9.28 P.Z.
Difficulty: 8.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 682/202
Another remodel very hard! For advanced players.
Author: laizhufu + Jordi Domènech
Title: 卯兔之小兔乖乖 (Mao Rabbit Xiaotuguaiguai) c
Comment: added a box, stoned 2 boxes/goals
Date: 2012.11.1
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 448/127
Fun "rabbit". See also other remodels of stopheart and gyjgw.
Author: Yang Chao + Jordi Domènech
Title: 404 Not found (a)
Comment: added a box and a wall, some changes in the bottom
Date: 2013.10.30
URL: sokoban.org/level.php?id=64
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 228/70
Find the solution of "404 Not found" :)
Author: laizhufu
Title: 新花样年华 (Blossom Age) - MF8 54th Sokoban Competition, Extra
Date: 2013.12.13
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=100420&extra=page%3D1
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 856/178 (XiBeiTianLang)
Goals and interior walls: 花样年华. Yang Chao explains: "花样年华 is a common phrase in Chinese, which usually means the years when a person is in his/her 20's, just like the flowers, young and beautiful."
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #58
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 7 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 229/76 (Archanfel + Tiaoa)
Double stairs! Nice and curious puzzle.
Next, I publish four puzzles that I selected from the collection "Secundus gradus ad Olympo". This four puzzles are - in my opinion - exceptional and very nice to solve. Přemysl Zíka is an author of other "many-in-goal": I suggest to see the list "other recommended puzzles" at the end of this page.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #60
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 459/136
Spectacular and beautiful! In fact, is a "logical" puzzle: you have to pay attention to free spaces ...
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #65 Jack-in-the-box
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 371/116 (Archanfel)
Excellent ... and not so easy!: my difficulty rating, 7.5.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Secundus gradus ad Olympo #73
Date: December 2013
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 554/169 (Archanfel)
I like very much this original "diamonds". It has 88 boxes, but I include it in the selection. Its not so easy... My difficulty rating: 7.5.
