There are many good puzzles of 6 boxes (with rooms), and really it is very difficult to make a selection. I recommend see below the list "Other puzzles".
As in other post, I have tried that there are represented most of authors, styles and difficulties.
See also:
- Six
- 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: Masaki Ishino
Title: Sokoban Perfect #294
Date: 1989
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 154/57
Three rooms identical in T-shape. Classic problem of storage and nice puzzle.
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #208 パバーヌ (Pavane)
Date: 1991. First publication: Sokoban Deluxe (1990) #5-B
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 251/84
Double rotation of the boxes: the boxes on the left rotate clockwise, and the boxes to the right in the reverse direction. Hence perhaps the name of "Pavane", the slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century. This nice theme has also been treated, among others, by Hirohiko Nakamiya, Joy levels #1; David W. Skinner, Sasquatch IV #9, and Microban III #8; Přemysl Zíka, Primus gradus ad Olympo #52...
Author: Yoshio Murase + Masato Hiramatsu
Title: handmade #18 激戦区 (Battleground)
Comment:
自動作成でできた面、yos_weeklyの13面と17面を繋げて改造したものです。
この「連結法」は、簡単な面の難易度を上げる、お手軽な手法ですね。
私、村瀬が原形を作り、平松さんが修正しました。
広さ35、荷物6、荷物率17.1%です。
Date: 1998.1.28 (created), 1998.2.4 左上のスペースを削除、ゴールの位置変更。
Website: www.ne.jp/asahi/ai/yoshio/sokoban/index.html
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 156/51
Really nice. Typical puzzle divided in two halves (in the style of handmade #1).
Author: Yoshio Murase
Title: handmade #23 イヌ (Dog)
Comment:
yos_weeklyの18と19の合体です。
前者の面の形は、自動生成の際には出現しやすいようです。
すなわち、評価が高くなりやすい形ということになります。
「それはなぜか？」と考えつつ作りました。
Date: c. 1999
Website: www.ne.jp/asahi/ai/yoshio/sokoban/index.html
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 87/26
Simple and beautiful. This "dog" seems that it barks very much, but does not bite: you only have to pay attention in the first moves.
Author: François Marques
Title: Sokompact #32 Hexa ban 7
Date: March 2001
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 150/38
Nice miniature, with a vaguely cross shaped structure.
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Picokosmos #1
Subtitle: Fleur (Flower)
Comment:
J'ai eu beaucoup de mal à créer ce premier niveau pour ne pas rater
l'entame de cette série. Je me suis inspiré au départ de Minicosmos 30.
Cela semble si près d'être résolu... et pourtant!
Date: September 2001
Website: www.onlinespiele-sammlung.de/sokoban/sokobangames/nabokos/
Difficulty: 8.75 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 207/67
Interesting puzzle "fix one", with a complex structure of four rooms. My difficulty rating: 7.
Author: David Holland
Title: bagatelle #10 diode1
Date: October 2001
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 251/66
Rotary puzzle with a double problem: place a box in D7 and build the parallel.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2001 #65 Ugolok
Date: November 2001
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 188/52
Puzzle relatively easy, in comparison with another 6-boxes of GRIGoRusha, but very nice and fun to solve.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #101 Double choice
Date: March 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 488/138
Fantastic labyrinth of 6 rooms! If you don't put much attention, the "deadlock" are continuous ... Maybe it's one of the best puzzles in this style.
See also a remodel of this puzzle: GrigrSpecial #1, and an interesting version of this latter: svb485 of Serg Belyaev.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #107 Return
Date: May 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 540/119
Really funny and nice. It is strange that in your website GRIGoRusha does not highlight this puzzle among their "best levels". In my opinion, it is excellent.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: Grigr2002 #137 SokoSutra
Date: November 2002
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 421/124
Rotary. Difficult until the last box! :P
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 982
Comment: many-in-goal hard
Date: 2004
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 273/44
Simple but nice and fun level "fix one".
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #61 3+3
Date: 2004.10.1
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 248/48
Fantastic miniature!
Author: Kenyam (Kenya Maruyama)
Title: #40 Gyruss
Comment:
Originally, the goal area of Mini Detour (SetA #36) was created as a single level like this. This is an extended version, more difficult.
Date: 2004.11.20
Website: www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Domino/7999/soko/skrmc_a.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 179/60
Exceptional "six" quasi-compact and vaguely windmill-shaped structure in the bottom half.
I realize now that, except #1 (a "line") and #5, all of the puzzles of Kenyam of 6 boxes (with rooms) are "sixes": see #16, 18, 23, 40, 41, 43. Thus, I publish here this level #40, which also included in "Sokoban lessons - Six".
The level #5 is relatively easy and has a structure similar to Microcosmos #12 of Aymeric du Peloux: the placement of the four interior walls is identical.
Author: Lee J. Haywood
Title: SokHard #102 Kaylee (arr.)
Date: January 2005
Website: leehaywood.org/games/sokoban/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 716/231
Fun storage with rooms around.
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: gri135a
Set: Remodel Club #76
Comment: added 2 walls
Date (remodel): 2005.5.3
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 486/142
Rotary puzzle with rooms in three corners. It is a remodel (more difficult) of Grigr2002 #135. Hard and nice to solve!
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrStar #1 Star forces
Date: 2005.9.18
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 378/106
Two "sliding doors" at the top and storage at the bottom. Seemingly simple, but difficult to visualize.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: TBox5 #20
Date: September 2005
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 202/39
Original and fun "line", with a "switch" on the left side.
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #95 1,2,3
Date: 2005.9.18
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 215/59
Another little gem!
Author: František Pokorný
Title: #93 Claw
Date: 2005.12.2
Website: kantorek.webzdarma.cz/sokobana.htm
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 213/66
Amazing miniature!
Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrStar #26 Overturn
Date: 2008.1.24
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 331/89
Hard! Recommended for fans of claustrophobic spaces and subtle maneuvers.
Author: Edwin Abbot
Title: Flatland #1
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 295/86
T-shaped structure, with interesting changes of wall.
Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #124
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 298/78
Seemingly simple, but it is difficult to visualize the solution.
Author: Shaggath
Title: V2010 #128
Date: December 2009
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 281/86
Easy but nice.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Microban IV #32
Date: August 2010
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 177/76
Change the boxes to the opposite wall! :) See also #30.
Author: Kevin Cassol
Title: Magic Sokoban #68
Date: June 2011
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 395/86
It seems easy but you have to work it.
Author: Kevin Cassol
Title: Magic Sokoban #69
Date: June 2011
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 158/32
A magic line!
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 28 #26 arr.
Date: July 2011
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 244/51
Amazing line+ !
Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #66
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 444/93
Difficult! There is what to put and remove the boxes once and again in the storage area.
Author: Morganine
Title: Sokomet #68
Date: January 2012
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 315/96
Amazing rotary puzzle!
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #185
Comment: Joke problem
Date: February 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1595/280
Fantastic maze with a "switch" in the crossroads. See other similar "artifacts", more complicated: #186 to #190.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly 3 #9 Gryphon
Date: February 2012
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 231/50
Difficult twins!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly 3 #42 Celebrity
Date: February 2012
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 196/46
Extreme miniature. It is necessary to do delicate moves to solve this.
Author: Marcus Hof
Title: Revenge 38 #18 arr.
Date: May 2012
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 543/129
Strange structure and difficult to solve. There are several moves nothing obvious.
Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #28 Tangled
Date: March 2014
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1006/128
Fantastic maze! Really tangled!
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Quagmire 3 #79 My Very Eyes
Date: April 2014
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 319/67
Incredible level! A lot of difficult maneuvers!
Other puzzles
- Serg Belyaev
svb019, 186, 262, 269, 291, 292, 337, 374, 391, 418, 435, 461, 469, 475, 485, 490, 492, 494
- Jordi Domènech
Magic Sokoban #72, 77, 86, 88; 2 #65, 81, 98; 3 #62, 99; 4 #82; 5 #60, 79, 82, 101
- Sven Egevad
SE 100, 1396
- Evgeny Grigoriev
Grigr2001 #34, 65, 73
Grigr2002 #108, 115, 118, 138
GrigrSpecial #1, 3, 19
GrigrStar #16, 20
- Lee J. Haywood
SokHard #54
- Marcus Hof
Revenge 27 #15; 32 #45; 33 #9, 16; 34 #64; 37 #76, 89, 106; 38 #53; 39 #2, 34
- David Holland
dh1 #3
Maelstrom Collection #6
- Kenyam
#5. See also "Sokoban lessons - Six"
- François Marques
Kokoban #11, 35
Le concurs du moi - Bonus level of May 2002 (Boxing)
- monry
monry-light #99, 107
- Morganine
Sokomet #13, 22, 29, 54, 60, 61
- Yoshio Murase
handmade #1, 9, 14, 28
- Blaž Nikolič
Blazz2 #5
- Aymeric du Peloux
Nabokosmos #27
Cosmopoly #10 (see remodel by Masato Hiramatsu)
- František Pokorný
#27, 44, 50, 59, 65
- Kevin B. Reilly
kbr1781, 1853, 1859, 1969
- Thomas Reinke
Thomas Reinke is the author of a lot of puzzles of 6 boxes (with rooms), all the difficulties, and most of them are really beautiful.
Anomaly #13
Anomaly 2 #26
Anomaly 3 #15, 19, 24, 27, 29, 30, 34, 38, 40, 41, 45, 48
Calx #21
Quagmire #7
Quagmire 3 #3, 21, 30, 76
TBox #9
TBox5 #38, 43, 46
- Seppolino
Symmetrixx #7
- Erim Sever
erim228
- Shaggath
Mulholland 2 #22, 24, 52
V2009 #71, 89, 96, 143, 150
V2010 #91, 98, 100, 115, 121, 143, 144
V2014 #59, 63, 64, 68
- David W. Skinner
Microban IV #30
Sasquatch V #20; VI #6
- Takaken
#3 Twins
- Přemysl Zíka
First levels #103, 106, 218
Primus gradus ad Olympo #36, 41, 42, 44
Secundus gradus ad Olympo #12, 13
The golden age of storage puzzles is that of Thinking Rabbit. In the collections of Thinking Rabbit, virtually we found all the possible problems of storage. Thus, it is not surprising that of the 21 puzzles chosen here, 7 are of Thinking Rabbit. And, in my opinion, between the creators who collaborated with Thinking Rabbit, two stand out: Hidemitsu Kobayashi and Yoshio Sakae.
"Two rows" (or columns) is a special case of storage, which has a particular interest. In this post I publish some of the puzzles "two rows" that I like most. With these characteristics:
- At least 10 goals (5+5 goals). I reserve the "eights" (4+4) for a specific post.
- The storage area must be surrounded by walls. Maximum number of entrances that connect the storage area with the rest of the puzzle = 30 %. The entrances must be non adjacent (I have done some exception to the latter condition).
- There may be other areas of storage in the puzzle, but the theme "two rows" has to be the main.
You can download all puzzles (except commercial) here:
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #284 a (arr.)
Comment: added 1 box
First release of the original level: 倉庫番2 (Sokoban 2; Thinking Rabbit, 1984) #43, and then Soko-Ban (Spectrum HoloByte, 1988) #29
Date: February 1984. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 681/213
This is the first level "two rows" of Sokoban and also the first in which they are used unequivocally rooms with sliding boxes. There are 29 remodels of this puzzle (see all versions here), but I choose this version of York Shen, with a box more, which greatly increases the difficulty. I've slightly arranged the map (upper-left corner). The arrangement is also valid for the original level :)
About the rooms with sliding boxes
The difficulty of this level is that it is possible to circulate from North to South, but not from the South to the North: the sliding boxes in the rooms at the four corners (marked in red, see image below), obstruct the passage of S-N. To move from South to North there is no other way to go through the storage area... :( Thus, to solve this level, we must first remove the 2 sliding boxes (marked in red) on one side of the level (in this case, we will remove the 2 boxes on the left side). Conclusion: in the levels with rooms and sliding boxes, first need to study very well the circulation pathways.
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Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #234 a
Comment: added 2 boxes
First release of the original level: 倉庫番2 (Sokoban 2; Thinking Rabbit, 1984) #44
Date: February 1984. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 4049/1082
"Two rows" in right angle. The unknown author of this excellent level, might be the same as Sokoban Perfect #284 (= Original #29, see above the previous puzzle), because both were published consecutively in Sokoban 2 (1984), levels #43 and #44 respectively. The version of York Shen (+2 boxes) is of similar difficulty to the original.
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #192 a
Comment: added 1 box
Date: 1989. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 2073/620
York Shen added a box, which significantly increases the difficulty. See also of Hidemitsu Kobayashi: Sokoban Perfect #253 (below), and Sokoban Revenge #264.
Author: Akira Yoshima + Jordi Doménech + stopheart
Title: Sokoban Perfect #217 b
Comment:
stoned many floors - J.D.
added 4 boxes, some changes - stopheart
Date: 1989. Remodel: 2011.8.25, and 2011.9.1
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1459/363
The version of stopheart, with 4 more boxes, is rather more difficult than the original. Stopheart has made some changes in the structure, especially at the top, where he has built a double room with a captive box. This funny "mechanism" allows the passage in both directions, N-S and S-N, conveniently changing the position of the box (up/down in the double room). See also this mechanism in the level of Vipul Patel, below (Sokodeal #55).
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi
Title: Sokoban Perfect #253
Date: 1989
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1648/673
This level has two major difficulties: 1) take out the first box of the right area... 2) but the biggest difficulty is how to place the boxes in the cargo area (left). Warning: small trap in the storage area (I bet you have to repeat this level...). There is no remodels of this level, and the reason is simple: is not possible to add a single box or wall.
Author: Masaki Ishino + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect #306 b-2
Date: 1989. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 8266/1900
It is the last level of Sokoban Perfect and one of the most difficult and arduous to solve in this collection. The version of York Shen change of place 9 goals, which obliges to use storage area for storing some boxes on an interim basis, and forced to move the boxes by two rows of the storage area (exits out a box at the bottom, comes inside another box above).
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #145
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 577/160
Masterly! It's my favorite level. See other puzzles "two rows" of Yoshio Sakae:
Sokoban Perfect #88 (simple and nice), Sokoban Revenge #140, #147, and #152 (remodel of Sokoban Perfect #196).
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #41 ２列のくせに易しい
Date: 1998.10.29
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 260/59
Genial! Another of my favorite puzzles from always.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #96 ありきたりの２列（超）
Date: 1998.12.17
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 856/198
Puzzle simple looking, but you have to put elbows on the table to find the solution.
Author: Jean-Pierre Kent
Title: JPK Levels #45
Date: November 1988
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-favorite-authors-jean-pierre-kent.html
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1747/750 (yutaka yamada)
Nice level, with storage area occupying the entire central area, and loading areas at the top and bottom.
Author: Jean-Pierre Kent
Title: JPK Levels #47
Date: November 1988
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-favorite-authors-jean-pierre-kent.html
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1181/386 (Sokobano)
"Two rows" angled and circulation around. Reminds Sokoban Perfect #234 (see above).
Author: Jean-Pierre Kent + York Shen
Title: JPK Levels #68 b
Comment: moved 2 goals
Date: November 1998. Remodel: c. 2003
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-favorite-authors-jean-pierre-kent.html
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 2389/850
Spectacular "two rows" in "S". I publish the version of York Shen, more difficult.
Author: Jean-Pierre Kent
Title: JPK Levels #74
Date: November 1988
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2012/10/my-favorite-authors-jean-pierre-kent.html
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 801/276
It's not easy... The entire puzzle is a veritable maze of rooms chained. You'll have to think a little to find a way to solve it ;) See also of Jean-Pierre Kent, level 59, remodel of Sokoban Revenge #152.
Author: ZiKo (Zbigniew Kornaś)
Title: Stage #014
Date: 2.5.2000
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 994/286
Hard! A classic and beatiful storage problem in two rows.
Author: David Holland
Title: dh1 #8 Salamandar v3
Date: October 2000
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 796/226
Excellent! The solution is not obvious.
Author: Shaggath
Title: Mulholland D #23 arr.
Date: September 2007
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 363/99
Fantastic! This is the puzzle that all storage specialists would like build.
Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokodeal #55 arr.
Date: September 2008
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 3102/696
Spectacular and fun. I've taken the liberty to arrange the map, eliminating the ugly double inner walls. Another interesting levels: Sokodeal #1 (with remodels of zhenying, difficult, and minglw), #18 (funny), #25, #43 and #44.
Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokophobia #9
Date: December 2008
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 2672/579
Fantastic level! Before moving any box, you should think very carefully how to load the storage area.
Author: Aleksey Krupenko
Title: Sonic - Room 6
Date: March 2012
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 437/93
Tricky!
Author: Aleksey Krupenko
Title: Sonic - Room 23
Date: 2012.5.16
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1119/470
The biggest difficulty is how to place the boxes in the cargo area (left). Other interesting levels "two rows" of Aleksey Krupenko: #11, #14 (nice storage problem), #36 (excellent, although the difficulty is just place the first box...), #38 (easy but nice), #47, #53.
Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1907
Comment: assemble hard
Date: November 2013
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 956/281
Witty and funny.
In addition to the levels above-mentioned, see also:
- Péter Asztalos
AKK Informatika #16
- Jordi Doménech
Miniatures - Part Two #13
SokoStation variations #10
The beautiful world of remodels 3 #7
- Hir (Masato Hiramatsu)
#9 Ten to sen, #14 Nagai fumikiri
Arranged levels #5
- Marcus Hof
Revenge 22 #2
- David Holland
dh1 #4, #5 Pattern-oster
- Kenyam #3
- monry #25
- monry + hir
monry-light #14 (d)
- Kevin B. Reilly 237, 372, 420, 481, 642
- Thomas Reinke + gyjgw
TBox5 #1 a
- Keijo Sopuli
KEAS Collection #11 Keas
- Eric F. Tchong
Atlas 1 #11, 2 #70, 7 #63-65, 8 #15
Chuchubi 5 #14
- Thinking Rabbit
Sokoban Perfect #88 (Yoshio Sakae), #183 (Yasuhiro Morita), #245, #295 (unknown + Masaki Ishino), #302
Sokoban Revenge #153 (unknown + Seiichi Katsurada)
