Pyramids

The recent collection "AC Diamonds" of Andrej Cerjak has given me the idea to dedicate a post to the topic "pyramids".

A "pyramid" is a triangular structure (usually with two stepped sides), and inside her the goals are usually grouped in the shape of chessboard. The most classic example is the puzzle of Yoshio Sakae, "Pyramid Sokoban" (Sokoban Revenge #283, see below).

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• Pyramids

 

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 a box - gyjgw
Date: 1991. Remodel: January 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 366/214

"Classic" pyramid. Ideal to practice the technique of the "zipper"...

Author: Howard Abed + gyjgw
Title: Second Set #22 c
Date: 1999. Remodel: 2012.8.15
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=90724&extra=page%3D1&page=16
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 169/57

Hard! Take it calmly.

Author: François Marques + Evgeny Grigoriev + gyjgw
Title: The skull (variation 2) a
Set: Le concurs du mois de novembre 2001
Date: October 2001. Remodel: 2002.8.27 (GRIGoRusha), 2009.4.2 (gyjgw)
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 212/58

There is also another remodel hard of GRIGoRusha + York Shen (see version e, Remodel Club #3).

Author: gyjgw
Title: jgw019b
Date: July 2004
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1095/474

The layout of the goals is in the form of "string", but is also fun to solve.

Author: gyjgw
Title: gy_0133
Date: August 2004
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1081/347

Excellent level, interesting and fun to solve. There are up to 23 remodels of York Shen, LZY, Tian Lang... This is the first version.

Author: Sven Egevad
Title: SE 1228
Date: 2005
Website: www.egevad.nu/sven/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 231/66 (zhenying)

Two mini opposite pyramids. Easy but nice.

Author: Eric F. Tchong + York Shen
Title: Chuchubi 2 #83 Piranha's (a)
Date: February 2008
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 787/204

Tricky remodel of York Shen.

Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokodeal #30
Date: September 2008
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1490/486

Then I post three excellent "pyramids" of Vipul Patel, of average difficulty, but very technical.

Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Sokodeal #32
Date: September 2008
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1251/302 (ejsantos123)

Author: Vipul Patel + York Shen
Title: MasterVIP #6 Tri-triangle (d)
Date: June 2008
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 1459/517

See also MF8 61st Sokoban Competition (Main), remodel of York Shen + anian + gyjgw.

Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Miniatures - Part One #53 My beatiful Spanish litle tree
Date: December 2010
Website: www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokoban_colecciones.html
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 112/29

Author: Dante
Title: Wisdom
Date: 2011.12.27
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=84540&extra=page%3D1&page=8
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 2055/721

Beautiful Christmas tree. There are other remodels more difficult of anian.

Author: TIAOA + 一目了然 + anian
Title: SBMendonca 01 SBM 46 dx2
Date: October 2013. Remodel: 2013.11.7
URL: sokoban.org/level.php?id=79
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 3514/1023

Wonderful level and excellent remodel!

Author: TIAOA + anian
Title: SBMendonca 05 SBM LLL 28 a5
Date: June 2015
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=91930
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 7435/2706

The biggest difficulty is to place the three central boxes of the bottom pyramid.

Author: TIAOA + anian + stopheart
Title: SBMendonca 05 SBM LLL 30 b (33)
Date: June 2015
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=92303
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 4269/1730 (Paul)

Another interesting remodel.

Author: Andrej Cerjak + Jordi Domènech
Title: AC Easy #14 Triangle - a
Set: The beautiful world of remodels 6
Date: 2015.6.18
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=92278
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 246/70

A little claustrophobic ... Take it calmly.

Bonus! "Triangles"

It is the same type of puzzle that the "pyramid", but the exterior walls they have any form, non-triangular.

Author: monry
Title: monry-light #10 発想はあれですヨ
Date: 1998.10.6
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 310/61

Nice level.

Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Monster Sokoban 5-3
Date: c. 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 53/12

Is it a "triangle"? In any case, this puzzle is a little gem.

Author: Ghislain Martin
Title: SokoStation #70 To be three
Date: 2001.5.13
Website: www.sokoban.fr/
Difficulty: 2
Best moves/pushes: 28/7

Another excellent miniature.

Author: François Marques
Title: Sokompact #47 Go up
Date: July 2002
Website: sokoban.online.fr/
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 148/51

Excellent!

Author: Evgeny Grigoriev (GRIGoRusha)
Title: GrigrComet #4 Space rocket
Date: 2005.9.19
Website: grigr.narod.ru/sokoban.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 374/89

A mini pyramid inside a cross-shaped structure. It seems unsolvable... :P

Author: Jordi Domènech
Title: Miniatures - Part Two #30 From Spain, happy new year 2011 to all Sokoban lovers
Date: December 2010
Website: www.abelmartin.com/rj/sokoban_colecciones.html
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 135/38

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!

Author: niwa
Title: Square Dance #20 The Big Lebowski
Date: January 2015
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 453/149

Curious ... You will need to put your elbows on the table to solve it ...

Three nice A

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Author: A1master + Premysl Zíka
Title: april2014 b
Set: 1,000,001 candlelights #32
Comment: Slightly modified in order to increase the difficulty
Date: 2014.5.3
URL: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban-remodeled.cz

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + A1master + Archanfel
Title: A
Comment: based on Alakina #1 alakina first
Date: 2014.9.9
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=90348

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Author: A1master + anian + Jordi Domenech
Title: Four dots (a-new)
Set: 1,000,001 candlelights #59
Date: 2014.10.8 (anian), 2014.10.31 (J.D.)
URL: www.letslogic.com/puzzle_info.php?id=90576

Just for fun - TIAOA arranged

Some good arranged levels of TIAOA, fun to solve.

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Author: TIAOA + Jordi Domenech + anian
Title: SBM 32+ a3
Date: 2013.10.7
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=127
Best moves/pushes: 5547/1531

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Author: TIAOA + Jordi Domenech + Premysl Zíka
Title: SBM 32+
Date: 2013.10.24
Comment: Here I made adjustments in the middle part - now you need to circulate throughout the round.- P.Z.
URL: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban-remodeled.cz
Best moves/pushes: 6080/1382

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Author: TIAOA + anian + 一目了然 + anian
Title: SBM 46 dx2
Comment:
anian: change 2 boxes to walls, add 2 walls, rearrange some goals (SBM 46b)
一目了然: simplified version: based on SBM 46b, deletes the right half
anian: add 2 boxes
Date: 2013.11.7
URL: sokoban.org
Best moves/pushes: 3514/1023


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Author: TIAOA + msxmlh
Title: SBM 37 a1 
Best moves/pushes: 18448/5130

Great puzzles - "Cobra" by Marko Dzekic, and remodeled by Přemysl Zíka

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Author: Marko Dzekic
Title: Cobra
Best moves/pushes: 15801/4463
 
In Let's Logic, Tiaoa has posted a series of entertaining and imaginative "snakes". So, I asked myself: what is the best "snake" of Sokoban? And, right away, I thought in this "Cobra" by Marko Dzekic. Without doubt, is one of the most original and beautiful "snakes" that I know. I posting it here because, in addition, I believe that is not well known to fans. It was posted in 2011 in the Chinese forum MF8.

Hint: It is a "snake" very "logical" ... You don't push all the boxes!

If one day I have time, maybe even make a selection of the most beautiful "snakes", to add it to "Sokoban lessons".

•

Přemysl Zíka has sent me this difficult remodel with two more boxes (!) ...

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Author: Marko Dzekic + Premysl Zíka
Title: Cobra+
Date: 2013.10.8
Best moves/pushes: 46229/11047 (Premysl Zíka)


Final version (for now):

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Author: Marko Dzekic + Premysl Zíka + gyjgw + anian + Premysl Zíka
Title: Big Cobra

Date: 2013.10.16
Difficulty: 9.5 (P.Z.)
URL: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban-remodeled.cz

Best moves/pushes: 43473/10749 (Premysl Zíka) 

Comment:

   - In first step I added 2 boxes (meanwhile on my small working version: gyjgw and anian used to fine-adjust one goal and minor changes); difficulty of this my 1st version: 9.3 (original difficulty from Marko Dzekic is about 7) [note: in my small working version I have checked only the solutions with 2 boxes extra].

   - In second step, I moved 1 goal to left down. Then I've changed the position of goals in the middle room (I'm inspired by gyjgw + anian - and I thank them for that), closed from both sides; difficulty of this 2nd version and concurrently my final version: 9.5.

The main scope of work of a sokoban player (and actually a "joke" of this level) is in the big "S"... (...my little help for sokoban players: be very careful you move many boxes, advantage is each space - even the slightest - even in the middle of the floor). Second version are "little changes", that they in the last version a little increase the difficulty, interest, attractiveness and popularity... (...my little help for sokoban players: middle room you must closed to the end of the solution).

My first ... and also at the same time solution: 98261/14307 (...crazy).

A prerequisite after the optimization: 40000 moves (please send me the solution - thank you).- P.Z.

Eric F. Tchong - Santanero

The santanero is a typical snake from Aruba,"One Happy Island" of the Lesser Antilles.
 
First, I posted the fun snake santanero of Eric, and then two remodels: the first is very simple, and the stopheart+anian version is more elaborate and ingenious. If there were more remodels, I will add them to the series.

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Author: Eric F. Tchong
Title: Santanero
Date: 2012.11.23
Best moves/pushes: 203/39

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Domenech
Title: Santanero+
Comment: added 2 walls, stoned a box
Date: 2012.11.23
Best moves/pushes: 288/59

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + stopheart + anian
Title: Santanero b
Date: 2012.11.24
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=113
Best moves/pushes: 489/131


More remodels. This is my final version:

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Domenech
Title: Santanero++
Comment: added 3 walls, stoned 4 boxes, moved a goal
Date: 2012.11.24
Best moves/pushes: 494/113

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + anian + stopheart
Title: Santanero b3
Date: 2012.11.25
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=114

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Domenech + stopheart & anian
Title: Santanero+ c1
Date: 2012.11.26
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=114
Best moves/pushes: 368/71

This last remodel could be very good, because it forces to do very difficult maneuvers in the central area. But it has a serious defect: the left side is rendered useless, is dispensable.

Come on! A little imagination!...


... I regained the left side:

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + stopheart & anian + Jordi Domenech
Title: Santanero d1
Comment: based on c1, added a wall, moved a goal, moved 2 boxes
Date: 2012.11.26 
Best moves/pushes: 655/144

 

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Domenech + stopheart & anian
Title: Santanero+ e
Date: 2012.11.27
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=115
Best moves/pushes: 798/185


A nice version of zhenying:

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Author: Eric F. Tchong + stopheart & anian + Jordi Domenech + zhenying
Title: Santanero c
Comment: based on d1
Date: 2012.11.30
URL: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/7745191820121113233589/ 
Best moves/pushes: 713/137