Perhaps you've noticed that in some puzzles appear "mysterious" letters or words, sometimes almost hidden ... What do they mean? In the explanations to each puzzle I attempted to clarify these "mysteries".
Obviously, there are many more puzzles that contain letters or words. This is only a selection. However, I believe they are well represented all the topics, authors, puzzle sizes and difficulties.
You can download the collection (except commercial puzzles) here:
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Perfect #176
Date: 1989
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 174/40
Interior walls and goals: "SOS".
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #78 ドクターＫ (Doctor K)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1405/446 (yutaka yamada)
Doctor K is a manga by the Japanese artist Kazuo Mafune, published in 1988.
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Author: Yasuhiro Morita
Title: Sokoban Revenge #180 しめすへん (Shimesuhen)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 767/205
The goals are the Japanese character 礻("shimesuhen").
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Author: Masaki Nakajo
Title: Sokoban Revenge #198 Ｘへの序曲 (Prelude to the X)
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 569/189 (lsdzxy)
Author: Shinji Kai + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Revenge #261 人間失格 (No longer human) a
Comment: added 2 boxes - Y.S.
Date: 1991. Remodel: c. 2003
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 250/84
No longer human (1948) is a famous Japanese novel by Osamu Dazai. What relation has this novel with the "X"? I don't know.
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Author: Keiichi Enomoto
Title: Sokoban Revenge #303 SOKOBAN
Date: 1991
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 3564/1236 (Sokobano)
"SOKO" (boxes) to "BAN." (goals).
In "Sokoban Revenge" there are other puzzles with letters or Japanese characters: level 84 (MAZE), 111 (ACE), 139 ("Q&A"), 163 (ウ = U), 201 ("Y holidays"), 213 ("Think"), 227 ("From R to K"), 239 ("NEC"), 246 ("Z is the ultimate"), 301 to 303 (WHY START SOKOBAN)
Author: Union Software of Silesia Rousers
Title: Master Head #22
Date: 1992
Difficulty: 3
Best moves/pushes: 951/278
Interior walls: "BUCH/CIK". Radosław Buchta aka "Buchcik", one of the authors of Master Head and member of the group Union Software of Silesia Rousers.
Author: Union Software of Silesia Rousers
Title: Master Head #36
Date: 1992
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 778/279
Interior walls: "USSR", initials of Union Software of Silesia Rousers. The group was started by Michał Widera and Tomasz Liebich, with Grzegorz Pancherz ("Paskud") and Radosław Buchta joining later on.
At other levels of this game:
- Level 19: "TL!", possibly initials of Tomasz Liebich, founder member of Union Software of Silesia Rousers and author of the music of Master Head and other Atari games.
- Level 20: "MUR": file extension MUR is a Atari image format.
- Level 21: "PAS/KUD": Grzegorz Pancherz aka "Paskud", member of Union Software of Silesia Rousers. In 1988 developed the Paskud IDE interface for Atari platforms. About Paskud - and other members of the group - see "Paskud'ny Życiorys" ("Biography of Paskud": the title is read by illuminating the top of the page with the mouse).
- Level 23: "LXE": read XL / XE. Master Head ran on platforms Atari 8-bit XL and XE series.
- Level 29: the Polish word "siurpryza" (used in games) is equivalent to "surprise" ('the unexpected, the element of surprise').
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Author: Ross W. R. Brown
Title: For the kids! #7
Date: March 1993
Difficulty: 2
Best moves/pushes: 191/19
MacSokoban, freeware program of the Swedish Ingemar Ragnemalm. He was one of the first Sokoban software for Mac, released in May 1992, almost simultaneously with Sokoban for the Macintosh of Scott Lindhurst. The collection "For the kids!" was incorporated into the program in version 3.0.1, toward March 1993.
Author: J. Franklin Mentzer
Title: Still more! #2
Date: 1993
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 365/152 (Wolfgang Haas)
The first fantastic "Hello" of Sokoban. See "'Still more!', by J. Franklin Mentzer".
Author: Tommy in Pennsylvania
Title: MacTommy inventions #20
Date: January 1996
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 1784/698 (Archanfel)
Interior walls in the goals area: "Hi". This puzzle is a remodel of "Original" #20. The "MacTommy inventions" collection was incorporated in the program MacSokoban of Ingemar Ragnemalm, with this note: "This module was made a fanatic MacSokoban player in western Pennsylvania. Tommy was introduced to MacSokoban in January 1996 and took to the game immediately. He conquored the 50 games in MacSokoban and 35 games in MacSokoban Extra, then turned to designing new levels of the game. Good luck with MacTommy!"
Author: Takaken
Title: Love
Date: c. July 1998
Website: www.ic-net.or.jp/home/takaken/e/soko/index.html
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 361/60
The walls of the puzzle form the word "Love".
Author: monry
Title: monry #35 Tenchi Muyou Twink 2
Comment: from BanSoko 135
Date: August 1998
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 579/175
Excellent puzzle! When it is solved the boxes/goals form the name "Twink". But the most extraordinary is that the initial position of the boxes is also the name "Twink": To view it, rotate the map 180º. This puzzle was posted in "Twink's BANSOKO Page", web page of Sokoban online edited in JavaScript by Twink, active between 1998-2001. In Bansoko published puzzles Hir, Okiyasu, Yoshio Murase, Takaken, Hiroki Kanou and monry, among others. Tenchi Muyo! (1992) is a Japanese anime, light novel, and manga series created by Masaki Kajishima and Hiroki Hayashi.
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Author: John Polhemus
Title: Title Screens #2
Date: August 1998
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 1967/706
"Extra" is the name that Scott Lindhurst gave to the series of 40 puzzles that continue to the "Original" collection in XSokoban (1993), when he joined this series to your program Sokoban for the Macintosh. "Title Screens" is dedicated to the Sokoban collections incorporated by default in the first versions of Sokoban for the Macintosh: level #1 "SokoBan", #2 "Extra", #3 "Still more", #4 "Boxxle", and level #5 "IQ Carrier" (collection of Thinking Rabbit marketed in USA by Radio Shack in 1995, subsequently withdrawn from the Scott program).
Author: John Polhemus + gyjgw
Title: Title Screens #2 a
Original title: 20050219
Date: August 1998. Remodel: 2005.2.19
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 353/100
Author: Kurt Nittel
Title: SokoNittel1 #95
Date: 1998
Difficulty: 3.5
Best moves/pushes: 1008/317
Interior walls: "KN", initials of Kurt Nittel.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #37 L
Date: 1998.10.26
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 403/99
One of the best "L" that I know.
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #101 CCC
Date: 1998.12.22
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 974/264
Author: monry
Title: monry-light #110 D to B
Date: 1998.12.31
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 108/23
In this same series "monry-light" there are other puzzles with letters or Japanese characters: level 87 ("L"), 89 ("L"), 91 ("A to B"), 99 ("L"), 103 ("CC"), 104 (占 = 'fortune-telling'), 109 ("LL"), 111 ("P to F"), 112 ("F to P"), 113 (F to P and P to F).
Author: Yoshio Murase
Title: handmade #29 中日ドラゴンズ (Chunichi Dragons)
Comment:
昔の帽子のマークです。これをかぶってた選手はずいぶんと
減りました…。簡単に解かれるようでは、優勝はできません！
Date: c. 1998
Website: www.ne.jp/asahi/ai/yoshio/sokoban/index.html
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 352/90
Boxes and goals: "CD", initials of Chunichi Dragons, a professional baseball team based in Nagoya (Japan).
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| Chunichi Dragons insignia |
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Author: ZiKo (Zbigniew Kornaś)
Title: #8 My wife (BEATA arranged)
Comment: new version of ziko_#002
Date: 2000.3.28
Website: www.sokoban.republika.pl/
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 917/257 (Archanfel)
Interior walls: "BEA/TA", name of the wife of ZiKo.
Author: Brian Kent
Title: Aenigma #42
Date: May 2000
Difficulty: 2
Best moves/pushes: 729/386
Replica of "Original" #1, composed of huge letters "SOKO/BAN".
Author: Hirohiko Nakamiya
Title: Joy levels #03
Comment:
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* * *
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This shape is a character in Japan which means a mountain.
Date: July 2000
Website: miya.s16.xrea.com/selection/bannin/
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 214/64
The boxes at the bottom are the Japanese character 山 = "mountain".
Author: Lord Shedoshi
Title: Level 1245
Date: July 2000
Difficulty: 3.5
Best moves/pushes: 338/112
Boxes: "SOKO/BAN". The goals filled the spaces between the letters. Puzzle added in the freeware program Visual Sokoban (1999) of Sylvain Gravejat (see levels #1224-1245).
Author: 20603 (Yongzhong Zou)
Title: 仓库擂台第五关 (Sokoban Contest - the 5th level)
Date: c. 2000
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 221/40
Excellent "Hello". Looks like a replica of the puzzle of J. Franklin Mentzer (see above).
Author: Aymeric du Peloux
Title: Nabokosmos 01
Subtitle: +X
Comment: Réalisé à Noël 2000. Un design version guirlande.
Date: December 2000
Website: membres.multimania.fr/nabokos/index.html
Difficulty: 6.5 (A. du P.)
Best moves/pushes: 70/19
Author: John C. Davis
Title: Joke 6 - S for Sokoban
Date: January 2001
Difficulty: 1
Best moves/pushes: 116/1
Author: John C. Davis + Jordi Doménech
Title: Level 2 - See Description
Comment: added 11 walls, move a box - J.D.
Date: January 2001. Remodel: 2012.11.19
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 422/144
Double word "SOKO/BAN!" formed by the goals and the boxes. Unpublished remodel, special for this post... :)
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch IV #41
Date: March 2001
Website: users.bentonrea.com/~sasquatch/sokoban/
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 321/84 (kevin cassol)
Interior walls: "SAS/QUA/TCH".
Author: GRIGoRusha (Evgeny Grigoriev)
Title: Grigr2001 #89 LoLa
Date: November-December 2001
Website: grigr.narod.ru/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 164/50
Author: Kevin B. Reilly
Title: #1000
Date: December 2001 - January 2002
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 1193/410 (lsdzxy)
Goals: "1 K", to commemorate the 1000th level.
Author: Petr Laštovička
Title: Level 272
Date: 2002
Website: petr.lastovicka.sweb.cz/indexEN.html
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 205/50
Goals: "P", from Petr Laštovička, I guess. This puzzle is included in the program of the author SokobanP 3.1 (see levels #266-286), in five languages: English, French, Polish, Spanish (translation mine!...) and Czech.
Author: Serghant
Title: Flower #10 Sokob 2
Date: July 2003
Website: soko-ban.narod.ru/
Difficulty: 2.5
Best moves/pushes: 836/286
A big "Hello". The "Flower" collection is from Makc (Maxim A. Novikov), but levels 9-11 are the Serghant's work.
Author: gyjgw
Title: gyjgw_0020
Date: c. 2003
Estimated difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 502/158
Fantastic "Z", which looks like a replica of the puzzle of Howard Abed, "Second Set" #38.
Author: Andre Bernier
Title: Initial Trouble #12 Ryan
Date: April 2004
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 1474/619 (lsdzxy)
"RB", initials of "Ryan Bernier". Each puzzle in this collection is made up of the initials of one of the sons of the author: Andre, Lynne, Dana, Michael, Giselle and Ryan.
Author: Eric F. Tchong
Title: Aruba 10 #21 Final exam
Date: Setember 2004
Difficulty: 5
Best moves: 591 (bhb)
Goals at the bottom: "ArubA". Eric F. Tchong is from Aruba, "One Happy Island" of the Lesser Antilles, in the southern Caribbean Sea.
Author: gyjgw
Title: jgw014
Date: c. 2005
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 4334/1634 (Findus)
Boxes/goals in the middle: "jgw", initials of the author: Jing Guo Wei （荆国伟）. Laborious and difficult level!
Title: SokoStation #212 SOKOBAN
Date: 2005.6.29. Remodel: 2012.12.31
Website G.M.: sokoban.pagesperso-orange.fr/
Website P.Z.: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 697/154
Goals: "SOKOBAN".
Author: Doreen & Rainer Kaufmann + York Shen
Title: Demons & Diamonds #20 To be continued... b
Date: December 2004. Remodel: 2005.7.11
URL: games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sokoban/message/1625
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 221/78
Goals: "BYE". York Shen added 10 boxes to the original puzzle.
Author: gyjgw
Title: "lzy"
Date: c. 2005
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 851/188 (ejsantos123)
Interior walls: "LZY", a Chinese author of Sokoban.
Title: "lzy"
Date: c. 2005
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 851/188 (ejsantos123)
Interior walls: "LZY", a Chinese author of Sokoban.
Author: gyjgw
Title: 你来我往 (You come to me)
Date: 2005
Estimated difficulty: 9
Best moves/pushes: 1696/385
Interior walls: "York Shen", a Sokoban author from Taiwan.
Author: GRIGoRusha (Evgeny Grigoriev)
Title: GrigrStar #4 Big L
Date: 2005.9.10
Website: grigr.narod.ru/
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 713/151
Incredible "L", very difficult and arduous to solve!
Author: Karl-Heinz Böhm
Title: Kalle1 #7
Date: November 2005
Difficulty: 5
Best moves: 1904 (dixon)
"Kalle" is a masculine given name of North Germanic origin, a variation of Karl.
Author: Eric F. Tchong
Title: Atlas 1 #66 Marisol
Date: January 2006
Difficulty: 4
Best moves: 437/148 (kevin cassol)
Goals: "Marisol", nice Spanish female name. Is a contraction of "MARIa de la SOLedad".
Author: zhenying
Title: YZYtxz-c (y51.1)
Date: 2007.2.20
Website: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/
Estimated difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 3674/746
Author: Kenyam (Kenya Maruyama)
Title: Kenyam Set A #45 K2E
Comment: Determined the title at first. Then made this level.
Date: Released 5/06/2007
Website: www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Domino/7999/soko/skrmc_a.htm
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 242/56
"K" (boxes) to "E" (goals).
Author: gyjgw
Title: 20070930
Date: 2007.9.30
Estimated difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 913/226
The two chinese characters 秋 formed by the boxes/goals, means "Autumn".
Author: Eric F. Tchong
Title: Atlas 9 #27 Soko 2008
Date: December 2007
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 2882/1268 (Ficko)
Goals: "SOKO 2008".
Author: Crazy Monk (Jean-Pierre Martel and Matthias Meger)
Title: Disciple #17 X-file
Date: May 2008
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 2181/814 (JPM + Archanfel + MMeger)
Author: Eric F. Tchong
Title: Chuchubi 5 #96 XYZ moves
Date: December 2008
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 725/295 (Findus)
Goals: "XYZ".
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: First levels #130
Date: c. 2009
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 684/226 (Wolfgang Haas)
Author: Stanislav Kanev
Title: Barona #8
Date: c. 2009
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 191/70
"S" to "S". The seven puzzles 8-14 of the "Barona" collection are dedicated each to a letter of the word "SOKOBAN", within the same structure of walls.
Author: Vipul Patel
Title: Mastervip #28 Hi Vipul version B
Date: c. March 2009
Estimated difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 56530/20457
Boxes on the left side: "VIPUL".
Author: tuitui
Title: (untitled)
Date: 2010.1.27
URL: bbs.mf8.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=46703&extra=page%3D5&page=7
Difficulty: 3.5
Best moves/pushes: 611/125
Interior walls on the top: "SOKO".
Author: Jordi Doménech + niwa
Title: The beautiful world of remodels 1 #21 SE to ES (for Erim Sever)
Date: March 2010
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 180/60
"SE" (boxes) to "ES" (goals), initials of Erim Sever.
Author: anian + Jordi Doménech
Title: The beautiful world of remodels 1 #27 Sokoban 30th anniversary 1980-2010
Comment: integration of Original #1 whit the word "SOKOBAN" of anian
Date: March 2010
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 839/333
Author: gyjgw + Jordi Doménech + zhenying
Title: MF8 8th Sokoban Competition (November, 2009) b
Date: 2010.3.15
URL: bbs.mf8.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=42520&extra=page%3D4&page=15
Difficulty: 9
Best moves/pushes: 3384/890
"MF8" is a Chinese forum dedicated to Rubik's Cube, but with sections of "Math Puzzles", "Sliding Block Puzzles"... and an active section of Sokoban. Since April 2009, every 3 weeks he organizes a Sokoban Competition. "gyjgw" designed the fantastic first version of the 8th Sokoban Competition. "The competition becomes a major event among the Chinese Sokoban community, and the competition level is becoming more and more challenging" (from "About MF8 Sokoban Competition").
Author: 推乐山 (Tui Leshan)
Title: (untitled)
Date: 2010.5.14
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=52809&extra=&page=3
Difficulty: 5.5
Best moves/pushes: 539/163
The goals are formed by 3 Chinese characters: the top one is 推 ("push"), the bottom two are 乐 ("happy") and 山 ("mountain"). 推 乐山 = Tui Leshan, the nickname (in Pinyin transcription) of the author.
Author: Alberto Borella + Jordi Doménech + David Holland
Title: Level #20 b
Date: 2010.6.29
URL: games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sokoban/message/3683
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 568/228
Goals: "A.B.", initials of Alberto Borella.
Author: David W. Skinner
Title: Sasquatch XI #50
Date: Setember 2010
Website: users.bentonrea.com/~sasquatch/sokoban/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 1021/298 (Jorge Gloria + k. cassol)
Goals: "SAS/QUA/TCH".
Author: Werner Ettinger
Title: Happy Birthday
Date: 2010.11.17
URL: games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sokoban/message/4224
Estimated difficulty: 6
Goals: "60 / HAPY / BIRTHDAY / RALF".
Author: zhenying
Title: 61-36
Comment: 元旦
Date: 2011.1.1
URL: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/7745191820110310253879/
Difficulty: 8.5
Best moves/pushes: 475/128
The two Chinese characters 元旦 mean "New Year's Day".
Author: 西北天狼 (XiBei Tian Lang)
Title: E
Date: 2011.3.22
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8.com.cn/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=2
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 903/224
Author: Jordi Doménech
Title: The beautiful world of remodels 4 #16 E to F
Date: 2011.3.22
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=2
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 138/52
Author: Jordi Doménech
Title: Magic Sokoban 1 #95 K
Date: 2011.4.2
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=6
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 113/30
Author: laizhufu + Jordi Doménech + laizhufu
Title: ABC
Date: 2011.4.6
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=8
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 398/121
"ABC" (boxes) to goals "关卡" ('puzzle, level').
Author: laizhufu + Jordi Doménech
Title: The beautiful world of remodels 4 #21 L
Date: 2011.4.8
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=8
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 430/71
Author: laizhufu + Jordi Doménech
Title: 我心飞翔 (My heart is flying) - M
Set: Magic Sokoban 1 #91
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=10
Date: 2011.4.16
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 195/50
Author: Jordi Doménech
Title: Magic Sokoban 1 #80 N minor
Date: 2011.5.6
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=13
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 63/13
Author: Jordi Doménech
Title: Magic Sokoban 1 #65 O
Date: 2011.5.8
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=14
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 52/18
Author: laizhufu + 西北天狼 (XiBei Tian Lang)
Title: 时钟 (Clock) - O
Date: 2011.5.16
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=15g
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 365/110
Author: laizhufu + stopheart + anian
Title: 一叶知秋 (Leaf) - Q
Date: 2011.7.15
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=22
Estimated difficulty: 10
Best moves/pushes: 719/164
Author: morganine
Title: Hello
Date: August 2011
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 4865/1689
Goals: "HELLO". This puzzle was posted in Let's Logic.
Author: laizhufu
Title: T形台 (T-shaped stage) - T
Date: 2011.9.23
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=32
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 3712/860
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.
Author: Reinhard Hielscher
Title: Many Boxes #6 600 Boxes
Date: January 2012
Estimated difficulty: 5
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: 518/124
Beautiful puzzle! The two Chinese characters 生命 mean "life". The puzzle was posted after copying the lyrics of "Song of Life" (October 1988) of the "cantopop" George Lam.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Title: Anomaly 3 #5 Lost Lore
Date: February 2012
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 258/60
Incredible "L to L".
Author: anian + Jordi Doménech + zhenying
Title: Sokoban 30th anniversary 1982-2012
Date: March 2010. Remodel: 2012.3.28
URL: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/7745191820123643317569/
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 516/174
Author: laizhufu + anian
Title: 键盘 (Keyboard)
Date: 2012.4.1
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=44
Estimated difficulty: 7
Author: 一目了然 (At a glance)
Title: 字母表 (Alphabet)
Date: 2012.4.3
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=44
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 3171/1298
Goals: "ABCDEF/GHIJKLM/NOPQRST/UVWXYZ".
Author: Carlos Montiers + Jordi Doménech + niwa
Title: Habibti c
Date: 2012.4.6
URL: games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sokoban/message/4663
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1120/221
Goals: "baby".
Author: gyjgw
Title: 3rd anniversary of MF8 Sokoban Competition - 33rd MF8 Sokoban Competition
Date: 2012.4.13
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=88449&extra=page%3D1
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1420/426 (rikitin)
The Chinese characters 三周年, formed by the interior walls, mean "Third anniversary", to commemorate the 3rd anniversary of MF8 Sokoban Competition.
Author: laizhufu + anian
Title: 水到渠成 - X
Date: 2012.4.18
Note by J.D.: from the series "Letters" promoted by laizhufu in the Chinese forum MF8 in 2011
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/viewthread.php?tid=72975&extra=page%3D1&page=45
Difficulty: 7.5
Author: 随风而逝 (SokoWind) + stopheart + Jordi Doménech
Title: 睿斗推箱子第三十一关(A面B面) - Riddle Sokoban #31 (A side B side) a1
Date: 2012.7.16, 2012.9.23
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 460/107
A side B side. The double life (2010) is a film from the Chinese director Ning Ying.
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Author: gyjgw
Title: 伦敦2012 (London 2012) b
Date: 2012.7.28
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=90724&extra=page%3D1&page=14
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 1267/425
At the bottom, interior walls and goals: "2012 / London".
Author: unknown + Jordi Doménech + Přemysl Zíka
Title: SEGA (b)
Comment: based on the "Round Demo" of the game "Sokoban", published by SEGA (Japan) in December 1985
Date: 2012.9.16 (J.D.), 2014.9.28 (P.Z.)
Difficulty: 8 (P.Z.)
Best moves/pushes: 331/98
Goals: "SEGA".
Author: 随风而逝 (SokoWind)
Title: 睿斗推箱子58关-申猴 (Riddle Sokoban #58 Shen Monkey)
Date: 2012.11.6
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=92715&extra=page%3D1&page=14
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 576/91
The puzzle represents Shen Monkey, ninth animal of the Chinese Zodiac. At the bottom, boxes and interior walls are two Chinese characters 申猴 ("Shen Monkey").
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Author: niwa (2010)
Title: s-O-k-O-b-A-nDate: 2012.12.1
URL: games.groups.yahoo.com/group/sokoban/message/4716
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 489/152
The goals form the word "sOkObAn", and if you rotate the map 180º, you can observe that the initial arrangement of the boxes forms the same word.
Author: Přemysl Zíka
Title: Primus gradus ad Olympo #111
Date: December 2012
Website: www.zusbreznice.cz/rozvrhy-zika-premysl-sokoban.cz
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 510/184
Goals: "ZIKA".
Author: laizhufu
Title: 北斗七星 (Big Dipper)
Date: 2012.12.14
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 639/195
In the initial position, placed boxes and not placed boxes, draw a double Big Dipper (the seven stars more visible of the Ursa Major). The goals area is the Chinese number seven, 七 (by the 7 stars). The interior walls are the Chinese characters - though slightly deformed - 北斗 (above) and 星 (below), so that together with the character 七 (goals area) they form the word 北斗七星 ("Big Dipper").
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Author: Alberto Garcia + Jordi Doménech
Title: Alberto Garcia remixed #74
Date: January 2013
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 4125/757 (Ficko)
Walls at the top: "ALBERTO".
Author: 风过了无痕 (SokoWind)
Title: 睿斗关卡82关 新年箱子 (New Year's box)
Date: January 2013
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 422/72
Interior walls: "YEAR / BOX".
Author: laizhufu
Title: 小灰灰 (Xiao huihui)
Comment: PS："灰"的拼音hui
Date: 2013.1.18
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=92715&extra=page%3D1&page=25
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 344/96
Goals: "HUIHUI". 小灰灰 ("Xiao huihui", in Pinyin transcription) is a character in a Chinese cartoon series. Here's the video of an episode: 小灰灰上学记-11
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Author: David Buchweitz
Title: Chrysalis Collection 6 #50
Date: 2013.6.21
URL: www.letslogic.com
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 172/54
Goals: "EOF". In computing, "end of file".
Title: Chrysalis Collection 6 #50
Date: 2013.6.21
URL: www.letslogic.com
Difficulty: 5
Best moves/pushes: 172/54
Goals: "EOF". In computing, "end of file".
Author: tengxi
Title: tengxi
Date: 2013.8.13
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=97515&extra=page%3D1&page=3
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 719/203
Goals: "TENG/XI".
Author: laizhufu + gyjgw
Title: 伍仁月 (Five Kernel Mooncake) - MF8 51st Sokoban Competition, Extra
Comment: It's the Chinese Mid-Autumn Day on Sep. 19 this year. People eat moon-cakes on Mid-autumn Day. So this level is a mooncake with five kernel.
Date: 2013.9.20
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=99390&extra=page%3D1
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 635/170 (Dante)
Chao Yang has given me this explanation: "The Chinese characters inside the mooncake is 伍仁, which means 'Five Kernel'. It means that there are five different things inside the mooncake: peanut, sesame, walnut, etc. It is a very common kind of mooncake."
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Author: shamying
Title: 国庆快乐 (Happy National Day)
Comment:
大家国庆快乐。小关卡，非常容易。休闲一下而已。
Date: 2013.10.1
URL: sokoban.org
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 516/114
Goals (and horizontal indoor wall): the character 庆, which means "to celebrate". It's the National Day of China today (Oct. 1st), we celebrate the National Day (I am grateful to Yang Chao this explanation). Regarding the puzzle, the greatest difficulty is in the top.
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Author: laizhufu
Title: 美债危机 (U.S. debt crisis)
Date: 2013.10.17
URL: sokoban.org
Difficulty: 6.5
Best moves/pushes: 454/138
Interior walls, goals and boxes: 美债, which means "U.S. debt". Nice one, and good idea... This is the kind of puzzles which creates new Sokoban fans :)
Author: laizhufu
Title: 生日快乐 (Happy Birthday)
Comment:
今天是荆先生的生日，祝您生日快乐！心想事成！
Date: 2013.12.2
URL: sokoban.org
Difficulty: 6
Best moves/pushes: 1757/548
Goals: "BIRTHDAY / HAPPY". For gyjgw's birthday.
Author: Razorflame
Title: Longevity #4 ATP World Tour 1000 Tennis
Date: December 2013
Difficulty: 4
Best moves/pushes: 37936/17455 (Findus)
Goals: "ATP / WORLD / TOUR / 1000 / MASTERS / TENNIS". Huge puzzle! If you like pushing boxes, this is your level. I still have not solved :P
New additions
These new additions are not incorporated yet in the downloadable file.
Author: Yoshio Sakae
Title: Sokoban Revenge #24 番 (Ban)
First release of the original level: Sokoban (1990, GameGear) #244, then in Sokoban Revenge (1991)
Date: 1990
Difficulty: 4.5
Best moves/pushes: 104/36
Finally I have decrypted the mystery! This puzzle is the Japanese sinogram 番 ("ban"), which is part of the word 倉庫番 ("sōko-ban") and the official logotype of Sokoban.
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Author: gyjgw
Title: 四年风云 (4th anniversary) - MF8 45th Sokoban Competition, Main
Date: 2013.4.5
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=96187&extra=page%3D1
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 605/134
Goals: 四年风云. This level commemorates four years of MF8 Sokoban Competition, which began in April 2009. Yang Chao has explained to me the meaning of Chinese characters 四年风云:
四年 = four years, which means the 4th anniversary of Sokoban Competition
风 = wind
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风云 usually means all the things that have changed during the years, just like the wind and the cloud which are not stable and change a lot.
So I would say "four years of wind and cloud" is a nice translation.
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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. Again, 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". I am grateful to Yang Chao his timely explanations.
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Author: Eric F. Tchong + Archanfel + Jordi Doménech + laizhufu
Title: Feliz 2014 a
Date: 2013.12.27
URL: sokoban.org/level.php?id=140
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 2328/627 (ymlr)
Goals in central area: "Feliz 2014". "Feliz" is a Spanish word and means "Happy". Eric F. Tchong is from Aruba, a island in the Caribbean. In Aruba is speaking Dutch and Spanish, in addition to the oficial language: Papiamento (a mixture of Spanish and Afro-Portuguese...).
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Author: 竹八节 (zhouxh) + gyjgw + anian
Title: 象棋系列之身先士卒 (Chinese Chess - Pawn) - MF8 63rd Sokoban Competition, Main
Date: 2014.8.22
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=103002&extra=page%3D1
Difficulty: 8
Best moves/pushes: 1890/488
Goals: 卒 = "pawn". This level depicts a "pawn", one of the five "soldiers" of the black pieces in Chinese Chess.
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Author: laizhufu
Title: 过大年 (To celebrate the New Year)
Date: 2015.2.24
URL: sokoban.org/level.php?id=422
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 2707/808 (shengli03)
Walls = 年, "year". On 19 February 2015 began the Chinese New Year.
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Author: laizhufu
Title: 五一劳动节 (May 1 - International Labor Day)
Date: 2015.5.1
URL: sokoban.org/level.php?id=431
Difficulty: 7
Best moves/pushes: 301/89
Interior walls: 五一, "5.1" (May 1).
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Title: 仓库番1982 （致敬今林宏行先生） - Sokoban 1982
Date: 2015.9.30
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=31783&extra=page%3D1&page=3
Difficulty: 7.5
Best moves/pushes: 397/85
Goals: is the Japanese sinogram 番 ("ban"), which is part of the word 倉庫番 ("sōko-ban") and the official logotype of Sokoban.
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