Next I post a small selection of the most beautiful arrangements of "Sokoban Revenge" (1991).
You can download all puzzles here:
Author: Hir
Title: Dual Barricade
Set: Arranged levels by Hir #11
Comment:
based on Sokoban Revenge #26 by Takemi Watanabe: added 2 walls, deleted 1 box and moved 1 box
Date: c. 1998
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 136/32
Famous arrangement of Masato Hiramatsu. The original level of Watanabe has the title べるりんノカベ (Berlin Wall).
Author: Yasuhiro Morita + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Revenge #59 a
Comment: added 4 boxes
Date: 1991. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 771/247
Difficult storage.
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + York Shen + stopheart + Tian Lang
Title: Sokoban Revenge #134 c
Comment:
YS: added 1 box
stopheart: added 1 wall, moved 2 goals
TL: moved 2 goals
Date: 1991. Remodel: c. 2003 (YS), 2012.2.19-20 (stopheart, TL)
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=69
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 943/248
Spectacular level of Kobayashi and difficult arrangement.
Author: Yasuhiro Morita + Marek Letrab
Title: Sokoban Revenge #162 a
Comment: added 2 boxes
Date: 1991. Remodel: July 2003
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 910/371
Nice storage, with closing from within.
Author: Yasuhiro Morita + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Revenge #180 a
Comment: added 1 box
Date: 1991. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 803/213
Nice level of Yasuhiro Morita. The goals are the Japanese character 礻("shimesuhen"). The box added by York Shen makes it very difficult to close.
Author: monry + François Marques + GRIGoRusha + York Shen
Title: monry16z++
Comment:
FM: based on monry16, added 6 boxes
GR: added 2 boxes at the ends (version monry16y)
YS: stoned all 8 boxes added
Date: 1992.3.28 (monry). Remodel: 2003.6.22
Difficulty: Hard
Best moves/pushes: 2014/526 (Findus)
monry14 (diamond) and monry16 (elongated hexagon) are extensions of Sokoban Revenge #228. Is not sure whether in the first place François Marques added 6 boxes and then GRIGoRusha another 2 boxes, or vice versa. See also Remodel Club #51 (version monry16y) and #52 (monry16z+7, version by Marek Letrab with 14 stoned boxes more). In GrigrChallenge there are several remodels from monry16, most without solution: see gyjw0806c and following levels. Subsequently, York Shen posted on Yahoo! Sokoban three other remodels (with 2 more boxes).
This one and the next four levels are very hard. For specialists in chessboards within stepped structures.
Author: York Shen + GRIGoRusha
Title: yms12x
Set: Remodel Club #34
Comment: development level yms12, general idea from level monry16
Date: 2003.1.1. Remodel: 2003.2.11
Difficulty: Hard
Best moves/pushes: 1430/562 (Georgi Georgiev)
Is an extension of yms12, inspired in the elongated hexagon from monry16 (which in turn is an extension of Sokoban Revenge #228). See also yms12c (Remodel Club #33)
Author: gyjgw + LZY + York Shen
Title: 火中取栗 j
Comment:
YS (version a): placed the player in the center and the free box at the opposite end to the goal
LZY (versions b, c): added 10 boxes on the vertical and horizontal axes (goals outside the diamond), 1 wall in the center
YS (versions d, e, h, i, j): based on version a, added 11 boxes on the vertical and horizontal axes (goals also on the axes), 1 wall in the center
Date: July 2005. Remodel: c. 2005.7.26
Difficulty: Hard
Best moves/pushes: 7548/1204
Hard diamond with barriers of knots of boxes in both vertical and horizontal axes. The original level of gyjgw 火中取栗 (diamond of odd sides with 169 boxes) could be considered an extension of Sokoban Revenge #228, as well as also the next level of gyjgw 20050806.
This level was posted in the Chinese forum SuperSoko. I have given him the same external look that Sokoban Perfect #215.
Author: gyjgw
Title: 20050806
Date: 2005.8.6
Difficulty: Hard
Best moves/pushes: 1983/474 (Tiaoa)
The free box of the center is enclosed by a wall of boxes. How to get to the center? See also Gyjgw Impossible Challenge #2, probably remodel of GRIGoRusha.
Author: gyjgw + GRIGoRusha
Title: gyijw0908a
Set: Remodel Club #108, Gyjgw Impossible Challenge #12
Comment: added 2 boxes
Date: 2005.9.8. Remodel: 2005.9.10 (according to the XSB file in the GRIGoRusha archive; in Remodel Club gives the date 24.12.2009, which is the date of the XSB file that takes in your website)
Difficulty: Hard
Best moves/pushes: 1458/308 (Sokobano)
Perhaps it could be considered a reworking of the previous puzzle (20050806).
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + monry
Title: リベンジ２３８面改造 (Revenge 238 remodeling)
Set: monry #33
Comment: added 4 boxes, rearranged some goals in the left side
Date: 1991. Remodel: 1992.6.23
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1651/406
Hard storage on the left side.
Author: Yasuhiro Morita + Hir + Okiyasu
Title: Sokoban Revenge level 254 arranged
Set: Arranged levels by Hir #4
Comment: added 1 box, major changes
Date: 1997.7.21 (create) - 1998.1.15
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1194/293
Really nice and fun to solve.
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + unknown + stopheart
Title: Sukoban Revenge #263
First release: Sokoban 2 (1990, GameBoy) 09-03; then in Sokoban Revenge (1991)
Comment:
unknown: added 4 boxes, major changes in the upper half
stopheart: stoned 2 floors
Date: 1990. Remodel: 2010.12.9 (stopheart)
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=46
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 679/204 (shengli03)
Small level, but difficult arrangement. Who will be the unknown author?
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + unknown + Jordi Domènech
Title: Sokoban Revenge #264 f
Comment:
unknown: added some walls on the left and especially in C5
JD: added 4 boxes, arranged the right side of the map
Date: 1991. Remodel: c. 2006 (unknown), 2017.3.2 (JD)
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 2018/595
Storage in "S", another classic level of Hidemitsu Kobayashi. In fact, according to Kobayashi, this level is a reworking of Sokoban Perfect #234.
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + stopheart + minglw + York Shen + gyjgw
Title: Sokoban Revenge #266 h
Comment:
stopheart: added 6 boxes, small change at the bottom
gyjgw: added 1 box, a change at the bottom
minglw: added 1 box, changed a box by a wall, moved 3 goals
YS: stoned 5 goals, small change at the bottom
gyjgw: moved 1 goal
Date: 1991. Remodel: 28 October - 2 November 2008
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1813/426
Excellent level of storage by Kobayashi and elaborated arrangement.
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + monry
Title: リベンジ２６７面改造 (Revenge 267 remodeling)
Set: monry #21
Comment: added 7 boxes
Date: 1992.2.17 (first remodel), 1992.5.10
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 3671/1067
Spectacular storage. Before placing any box you must study very well the storage area, if you do not want to repeat the puzzle 10 times.
Author: unknown + Kazuo Fukushima + Hir
Title: Sokoban Revenge level 279 arranged
Set: Arranged levels by Hir #7
First release: Sokoban (1985, Sega) #74; then in Sokoban Perfect (1989) #84. Remodels: Sokoban Perfect #305 (Masaki Ishino) and Sokoban Revenge (1991) #279 (Kazuo Fukushima)
Comment: based on SR-279, added 4 boxes, 2 walls
Date: 1985, 1991. Remodel: 1997.9.24
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 388/143
The first version of this puzzle was published in Sokoban (1985, Sega) #74 and then in Sokoban Perfect (1989) #84. Inexplicably, this first version is very easy, and perhaps for this reason were made after two remodels: the first, in the same collection Sokoban Perfect #305 (by Masaki Ishino), and then another remodel in Sokoban Revenge #279 (by Kazuo Fukushima). The arrangement of Hir is one of the most beautiful that I know.
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:
YS: added 6 boxes
gyjgw: added 1 box
Date: 1991. Remodel: c. January 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 366/214
Classic pyramid. Ideal to practice the technique of the "zipper"...
Author: Yasuhiro Morita + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Revenge #292 Keep me panic c (arr.)
Comment: added 3 boxes, stoned 5 floors
Date: 1991. Remodel: c. January 2004
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1242/360
Nice puzzle of storage in L and excellent arrangement of York Shen. For aesthetic reasons, I moved 3 goals to leave the L exempt.
Author: Hidemitsu Kobayashi + monry
Title: リベンジ２９５面改造 (Revenge 295 remodeling)
Set: monry #22
Comment: added 5 boxes
Date: 1991. Remodel: 1992
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 3361/963
One of the last storage levels of Kobayashi, and I also think that the more difficult. I prefer this version of monry to the version of Hir, with 9 boxes more.
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
