Some time ago that I have these puzzles in my archive, but so far I have not decided to solve them. The four puzzles have something in common: they are authentic works of art.
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Author: Eric F. Tchong + Jordi Domènech + anian + stopheart + Tui Leshan
Title: Chuchubi 10 #10 Tour de France h1x2
Date: 2016.2.28
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 1172/225
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=129
"Tour de France" is a beautiful puzzle of Eric F. Tchong, of which were made up to 11 arrangements. The first arrangement was mine, and then, in a few days, followed the arrangements of stopheart and anian. The last version was the h1, by anian + stopheart, and I think it's the most interesting (best moves/pushes: 1096/215; date: 2010.5.23). Apparently, the arrangement of Tui Leshan seems a simplification of h1, but there are some small changes that make it a version much more exciting and fun to solve.
Tui Leshan has built only a few puzzles, but his works are very elaborate and studied. I love your puzzles! In addition, he has a great aesthetic sense, which makes their puzzles and arrangements are small works of art.
See also "Two good levels, seemingly simple".
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Author: A1master + Přemysl Zíka
Title: april2014-b arr.
Date: 2014.5.3
Difficulty: 5.5 (PZ)
Best moves/pushes: 1345/205
URL: http://www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban-remodeled.cz
It is perhaps the best arrangement I've seen in these last two years. Difficult, exciting, and fun to solve. A masterpiece. My rating difficulty: 7. Original level: 1,000,001 candlelights #32 april2014. I've arranged a little the map (left side).
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Author: David W. Skinner + niwa
Title: Sasquatch 48 r-2
Date: c. 2014
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 3252/906
A master arrangement. Like the arrangement of York Shen, this one of niwa only adds 2 boxes, but 484 more moves are needed to solve it. That's great! This puzzle has not been published, although I'm not sure. Niwa sent it to me by e-mail.
Bonus!
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Author: niwa
Title: O
Set: Square Dance #32
Date: c. 2015
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 1120/282
After several attempts, finally I've also solved this incredible "O". Really difficult. There are several positions that are not at all obvious. A little gem!
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 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).
You can download all puzzles here:
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 ...
