laizhufu - Yin Tiger

 
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Author: laizhufu
Title: 寅虎 ("Yin Tiger")
Date: 2012.10.22
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=92715&extra=page%3D1&page=6

Fantastic "Yin Tiger"! And nice drawing, even with whiskers... I love it!

 

My favorite authors - Jean-Pierre Kent

Sokoboxx 2.13 - Psion Series 7

A few days ago, 随风而逝 ("Gone with the Wind") sent me two new levels, and in the same email he copied the level 63 of Jean-Pierre Kent, with a comment in Chinese that I couldn't understand very well, but in which he called "master" to Kent. I didn't remember the puzzles of Kent, and I ran to check your collection ... Fantastic puzzles! It was like coming home after a long absence ... I highly recommend the collection of Jean-Pierre Kent to all genuine fans to Sokoban. It is excellent!

The collection of 75 puzzles of Jean-Pierre Kent, "JPK Levels" (November 1998), could be played in the program Sokoboxx, edited by FatCatz (Taiwan) for Symbian / EPOC platforms. These are the features of version 1.09 of Sokoboxx (July 1999):

Sokoboxx
Publisher: FatCatz (Taiwan)
Version: 1.09
Cost: $15.00
Platforms: Psion Series 5, Geofox-One, 5mx, MC218, s7, netBook

On the Internet Archive you can visit the FatCatz website and download Sokoboxx:
http://web.archive.org/web/19990922005534/http://www.fatcatz.tm/products/sokoboxx/

Here you can download the latest version 2.13 of Sokoboxx (April 2002):
http://web.archive.org/web/20021016171554/http://fatcatz.net/products/ER5/sokoboxx/index.php

You can also download the collection "JPK Levels" (in .sbl format):
http://web.archive.org/web/19990922005534/http://www.fatcatz.tm/download/skl100en.zip

RMRBoxx - Sokoban Logic Game, is a version for Symbian OS V5.0 platforms. Publiser: RMR Software. Website: http://www.rmrsoft.com/epoc/boxx.htm

In Sokoboxx, Kent's collection was accompanied by the following note from the author:

Levels by Jean-Pierre Kent
Most are original, some are inspired by earlier collections.                    
Exclusively for Sokoboxx
Copyright (c) 1998 Jean-Pierre Kent

Indeed, some levels are based on levels of the "earlier collections" XSokoban (1993) and Sokoban Perfect (Thinking Rabbit, 1989). These are the ones that I have identified:

JPK
Level         Based on
-------     ----------------------

13          XSokoban 57
15          Sokoban Perfect 79
17          XSokoban 53
19          XSokoban 80
21          XSokoban 59
24          (reminds Original 30 - Sokoban Perfect 246)
29          XSokoban 72
32          XSokoban 66
35          (reminds Sokoban Perfect 212)
37          XSokoban 54
48          XSokoban 79
53          XSokoban 73
56          XSokoban 81
57          XSokoban 65
59          Sokoban Perfect 196
62          XSokoban 63

The puzzles of Jean-Pierre Kent are not easy, but they are affordable for the players with some experience. All of the puzzles posed problems of storage very well studied and a great originality, and sometimes unusual difficulty.

These are my favorites: #11, storage area in the center and circulation around..., excellent; #19, is my favorite, because its simplicity and for its difficulty; #50, original charge storage area; #60, entertaining...; #63, unusual charge storage area, very difficult to visualize, one of the puzzles of greater difficulty of the collection...; #68, very nice and interesting; #75, sophisticated problem of storage.

You can download the Jean-Pierre Kent collection here:

• JPK Levels (75 puzzles, 1998)

In the file "JPK_levels_arrangements" I've collected 32 remodels, everyone I know (thanks to Eric F. Tchong and Philippe Lamat your help). I have checked the solution to all of them.

There are several remodels of York Shen (posted in the old Chinese forum SuperSoko), but the greater part of remodels are work of the Japanese authors monry and kazuo. These remodels were published in the mailing list Sokoban-ML (managed by Okiyasu, 1999-2001), and were collected by Masato Hiramatsu in the set "JPK arrange (scratch)".

Enjoy the excellent puzzles of Jean-Pierre Kent, one of the most interesting and personal collections of Sokoban.

RMRBoxx - Psion Series 5

Sufrimiento, y no sólo en España

PAUL KRUGMAN

Pain, and not only in Spain

In Spanish:

Sufrimiento, y no sólo en España

 •

In 1933, those guilty of all the evils of Germany were Jews.

From 2010, those guilty of all the evils of Germany are the countries of the South (the GIPSI).

Since more than two years, EVERY DAY, without missing a single day, the German press devotes their praise of the southern European countries.

Is repeated exactly the same story. The same systematic rubbish-propaganda. The same lies and same infamy. The same destruction. THE SAME ENORMOUS SUFFERING. The same brutality. The same stupidity.

Meanwhile, the barbarians, crammed with rubbish-propaganda against the countries of the South, are surprised and outraged when someone compares Merkel with Hitler. What ingratitude! How unfair!... But if Merkel does not have a mustache!

Sokoban 30th anniversary 1982-2012 (Continuation)

One of the most outstanding puzzles in the "Original" collection is the level 20. In fact, this is the first level that presents difficulties of some importance to the beginner player. Here I have collected 14 variations of this level, all that I know.

1.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: 倉庫番2 (Sokoban 2)
Title: Level 10
Developer: Thinking Rabbit
Publisher: Thinking Rabbit (Japan)
Platform: NEC PC-8801mk2, NEC PC-8001mk2, NEC PC-9801, FM-7, NEC PC-6001mk2, IBM JX, NEC PC-9801m2
Released: February 1984

2.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: Soko-Ban
Title: Level 20
Developer: Thinking Rabbit, ASCII Corp. (Japan)
Publisher: Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. (USA)
Platform: Apple II, DOS, Commodore 64, TRS-80 Color Computer
Released: 1988 

3.
Author: Tommy in Pennsylvania
Collection: MacTommy inventions
Title: Level 20
Comment:
This collection was included first in the freeware MacSokoban, by Ingemar Ragnemalm, for Macintosh; and later in KSokoban (v0.1.0, August 1998), by Anders Widell, for KDE platforms.
Date: January 1996

4.
Author: Kurt Nittel
Set: SokoNittel 1
Title: Level 20
Date: 1998

5.
Author: Thomas Jensen
Game: WSokoban! 2.0
Title: Level 13
Publisher: Thomas Jensen (Denmark)
Platform: Windows 9x/NT
Released: July 1998

6.
Author: Howard Abed
Collection: Fourth Set
Title: Level 10
Date: June 1999

7.
Author: Howard Abed
Set: Simple levels
Title: Original 9
Comment - H.A.: Remodel of original level 20
Date: March 2001

8.
Author: Frédéric Maire
Game: Pousseur
Title: Level 11
Comment: The original level is wrong: missing two goals.
Platform: Javascript
Website: www.interjeux.net/jeux/pousseur/index_fr.html
Date: May 2000

9.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + York Shen
Title: Sokoban Perfect 226 a
Comment - Y.S.: One wall moved in entrance to collections area.
Date: July 2003 (?)

10.
Author: Eric F. Tchong
Collection: Aruba 8
Title: Level 9 Memories
Date: September 2004

11.
Author: Jordi Doménech
Collection: Original remixed
Title: Level 20
Date: July 2009

12.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + Jordi Doménech + anian
Title: MF8 7th Sokoban Competition
Comment: Based on Original remixed #20 by Jordi Doménech, remodel of Original #20 from Thinking Rabbit.
Date: September 30, 2009
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=39854&extra=page%3D2

13.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit) + Jordi Doménech + anian + Tian Lang
Title: MF8 7th Sokoban Competition
Comment:
增加两只箱子，拼个“七” - T.L.
The goals in the central area are the Chinese number "7" (七) - J.D.
Date: October 25, 2009
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=41064&extra=page%3D3

14.
Author: Eric F. Tchong
Collection: Chuchubi 14
Title: Level 46 Old timer
Date: july 2011

Magic Sokoban 4

New set "Magic Sokoban 4"

Magic Sokoban 4
Authors: Jordi Doménech, Marcus Hof and David Buchweitz

October 2012. 100 puzzles

In this fourth set have intervened Marcus Hof and David Buchweitz (from Let's Logic). Thanks a lot! - J.D.

随风而逝 (SokoWind)

随风而逝 (SokoWind) sent me by email his collection of 47 levels. These are the levels that SokoWind has been built so far, but probably in the future be added other new levels to the collection.

You can download this 47 levels here:

• SokoWind_47

In the Chinese forum MF8 have been posted several excellent remodels of some puzzles of SokoWind. In the file "Riddle_Sokoban_47_arrangements" I have collected some (not all) of these remodels. Enjoy!

Eric F. Tchong - Dushi 03

A new collection of Eric, dedicated to me. Thanks a lot! Download:

• Dushi 03

PAUL KRUGMAN

Europe's Austerity Madness

PAUL KRUGMAN

Euro Update: The Perils of Pointless Pain

 

 

gyjgw - "knots of boxes"

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Author: 随风而逝 + gyjgw
Title: 《睿斗推箱子》45关：纪念918 (Level 45: Commemoration of 918) a
Date: 2012.9.19
URL: bbs.mf8-china.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37579&extra=page%3D1&page=99

The most important element of a puzzle is the structure. The structure is formed by the exterior and interior walls of the puzzle. However, observed that the boxes can work as a special kind of "walls", i.e. as "mobile walls" (which become "fixed" walls once placed permanently in the goals).

This is a simple example of puzzle which the boxes operate as "mobile walls" (David Holland described this type of structures such as "dynamic topology": see "The two styles of Sokoban"):

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Author: Jordi Domenech
Title: Magic Sokoban 1 #95 K

This peculiar property of the boxes allows the creation of puzzles with internal structure consisting of authentic "knots of boxes", which give rise to puzzles of great difficulty. In the Chinese forum MF8 are very appreciated this kind of puzzles, and of course "gyigw" is an expert one: a good example is this nightmare of "knot of boxes" (Level 45 a) that I only recommend to experienced players.

Sokoban 30th anniversary 1982-2012

Without doubt, the most famous puzzle of all time is the Level 1 of the "Original" collection. But how many different versions have been made of this mythical puzzle? I have gathered here a total of 48 versions. However, it is likely that there will be more on platforms that I don't know. If you know any version that is not here, can you send me a PNG image and information about the game? Thank you very much. If I find new versions I will add to this post.

1.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: 倉庫番 (Sokoban)
Title: Level 1
Developer: Thinking Rabbit
Publisher: Thinking Rabbit (Japan)
Platform: NEC PC-8801mk2, NEC PC-8001mk2, FM-7, MZ-2000, NEC PC-6001mk2, Toshiba Pasopia 7
Released: December 1982 

2.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: 倉庫番 (Sokoban)
Title: Level 04
Developer: Thinking Rabbit
Publisher: Epoch Co. (Japan)
Platform: Epoch Game Pocket Computer (LCD Game)
Released: April 1985

This Epoch version was published later in "Sokoban Perfect" (Thinking Rabbit, 1989), level 22.

3.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: Soko-Ban
Title: Level 01
Developer: Thinking Rabbit, ASCII Corp. (Japan)
Publisher: Spectrum HoloByte, Inc. (USA)
Platform: Apple II, DOS, Commodore 64, TRS-80 Color Computer
Released: 1988

4.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: 倉庫番 (Sokoban)
Title: No.02-02
Developer: Thinking Rabbit
Publisher: Pony Canyon Inc. (Japan)
Platform: Game Boy
Released: September 1989 

5.
Author: One No & Kirath
Game: Block-O-Mania   [Sokoban variant]
Title: Level 1
Publisher: Cassiopeia (Netherlands)
Platform: DOS
Released: 1989
Website: crystalshard.net/index.php?p=6#

6.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: 倉庫番 (Sokoban)
Title: Level 252
Developer: Thinking Rabbit
Publisher: Riverhill Soft Inc. (Japan)
Platform: Sega Game Gear
Released: December 1990

7.
Author: Seiichi Katsurada
Game: 倉庫番 Revenge (Sokoban Revenge)
Title: Stage 001
Developer: Thinking Rabbit
Publisher: Thinking Rabbit (Japan)
Platform: NEC PC9801, Sharp X68000, Windows 3.1
Released: 1991

8.
Author: unknown
Game: XSokoban
Title: Level 51
Platform: X Window System
Released: November 1993
Website: www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/xsokoban.html

9.
Author: Jim Radcliffe
Game: Sokoban 1994
Title: Adolf
Publisher: Jim Radcliffe (USA)
Platform: DOS
Released: 1994

10.
Authors: Sergey Kononenko and Ilya Chudinovskikh
Game: Sokoban Classic
Title: Level 0001
Publisher: Mercury Software (Russia)
Platform: Electronika BK-0010
Released: 1995
Website: sergk.org.ua/mercury/

11.
Author: unknown
Game: 倉庫番 in 上九一色村β3　(Sokoban in Kamikuishiki village β3)
Title: Level 8
Platform: DOS
Released: November 1995

12.
Author: Tommy in Pennsylvania
Collection: MacTommy inventions
Title: Level 1
Comment:
This collection was included first in the freeware MacSokoban, by Ingemar Ragnemalm, for Macintosh; and later in KSokoban (v0.1.0, August 1998), by Anders Widell, for KDE platforms.
Date: January 1996

13.
Author: unknown (Thinking Rabbit)
Game: 究極の倉庫番 (Ultimate Sokoban)
Title: Stage 4 Chapter 1-01
Developer: Thinking Rabbit
Publisher: Itochu Corp (Japan)
Platform: PlayStation
Released: September 1996

14.
Author: Gabi Lohmeyer
Game: Soko 1.1
Title: Level 3
Publisher: Gabi Lohmeyer (Germany)
Platform: Windows 3.x
Released: December 1996
Website: www.gl-soft.de/spiel.html

15.
Author: A. Chudov
Game: склад N.º 18 (Warehouse No. 18)
Title: ID #000
Publisher: A. Chudov (Russia)
Platform: Dendy (?)
Released: 1997

16.
Author: unknown
Game: Sokoban
Title: Level 10
Publisher: Softdisk Publishing (USA)
Platform: DOS
Released: 1997

(I'm sorry, but I don't have any JPG image of this level.)

17.
Author: Newart (Viacheslav Kalinin)
Game: Sokoban
Title: Level 1
Publisher: n-Discovery (Russia)
Platform: ZX Spectrum
Released: 1997
Website: n-discovery.spb.ru/games.php

18.
Author: Thomas Jensen
Game: WSokoban! 2.0
Title: Level 16
Publisher: Thomas Jensen (Denmark)
Platform: Windows 9x/NT
Released: July 1998

19.
Author: Kurt Nittel
Set: SokoNittel 1
Title: Level 1
Date: 1998

20.
Author: Masato Hiramatsu (Hir)
Set: Arranged levels
Title: 閉め出されたラビくん
Date: August 1998

21.
Author: Jurij Szczapow
Game: FortNoks - Sokoban remix
Title: Level 01
Publisher: Jurij Szczapow (Russia)
Platform: DOS
Released: April 1999
Website: pascal.sources.ru/games/fortnoks.htm

22.
Author: Howard Abed
Collection: Fourth Set
Title: Level 1
Date: June 1999

23.
Author: unknown
Title: (unknown)
Date: ?

24.
Authors: Martin Hawlisch
Game: Enigma 0.50
Title: Level #10 Sokoban Revival
Publisher: Daniel Heck (Germany)
Platform (latest version 1.01): Windows 95 and later, Mac OS X
Released: April 2002
Website: www.nongnu.org/enigma/index.html
[Sokoban variant]

 

25.
Authors: Thinking Rabbit, converted to enigma format by Ralf Westram
Game: Enigma 0.81
Set: Sokoban
Title: Sokoban 1 (with two versions: easy and normal)
Publisher: Daniel Heck (Germany)
Platform (latest version 1.01): Windows 95 and later, Mac OS X
Released: July 2003
Website: www.nongnu.org/enigma/index.html 
[Sokoban variant]

26.
Author: Alberto Garcia
Collection: Alberto Garcia 1-1
Title: soko1
Comment: This collection was included in the freeware Sokoban 2K, by Brian Kent.
Date: 2002

27.
Authors: Ralph Karl Ohannessian and Caroline Lauchenauer
Game: Blocks Ultra
Title: Level 2
Publisher: Electronic Playground Studio (Canada)
Platform: Windows 95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP
Released: October 2003
Play online: www.gotoandplay.it/_games/playGame.php?g=27

28.
Author: Makc (Maxim A. Novikov)
Collection: Randomize
Title: Level 4 ceiwhune
Date: January 2004
Website: soko-ban.narod.ru/

29.
Author: Eric F. Tchong
Collection: Aruba 8
Title: Level 2 Good old level 1
Date: September 2004

30.
Author: Braingle Games
Game: Beanstalk Puzzle Game   [Sokoban variant]

Title: Level 2
Publisher: www.braingle.com (USA)
Platform: online
Released: April 2005
Play online: www.braingle.com/games/beans/index.php?play=1

31.
Author: Thomas Reinke
Collection: Sokomania
Title: Level 53
Date: July 2005

32.
Author: Ghislain Martin
Collection: Monde 25 (Level 247)
Title: Thinking Rabbit style
Date: October 2005
Website: sokoban.pagesperso-orange.fr/

33.
Author: Josef Stöckl
Game: Crazy Boxes 1.8   [Sokoban variant]
Title: Level 3
Publisher: Josef Stöckl (Austria)
Released: December 2005
Website: www.crazybytes.at/

34.
Author: mario@zah.att.ne.jp
Game: 倉庫番クラシック v1.44D - Tiny (Classic Sokoban - Tiny)
Title: Level 1
Publisher: mario@zah.att.ne.jp (Japan)
Platform: Windows
Released: January 2006
Website: home.att.ne.jp/wind/room_mario/soko/soko.html

35.
Author: DespeRadoX
Game: Becherovka Summer Refreshment   [Sokoban variant]
Title: Level 3
Publisher: DataWeb (Czech Republic)
Released: September 2007
Website: game.becher.cz/?page=game&id=279

36.
Author: Tom Beaumont
Game: Snakoban Dash!   [Sokoban variant]
Title: Level 1-1 The first warehouse
Publisher: Tom Beaumont
Released: October 2008

37.
Author: Draku
Collection: Learning Sokoban
Title: Level 39
Date: March 2009

38.
Author: unknown
Game: Box It! 2
Title: Level 3
Publisher: Digiment (UK)
Platform: JavaMe, Android
Released: April 2009
Website: www.digiment.co.uk/game.jsp?gid=BoxIt2
Play online: www.mochigames.com/games/box-it-2/

39.
Author: Jordi Doménech
Collection: Original remixed
Title: Level 1
Date: July 2009

40.
Author: unknown
Game: Super Sokobang   [Sokoban variant]
Title: Level 2
Publisher: Akita Multimédia (Canada)
Platform: Windows 98/ME/2000/NT/XP/Vista/Win 7, Mac OS
Released: November 2009
Website: akitamultimedia.com/produits/sokobang.php

41.
Authors: anian + Jordi Doménech
Title: Sokoban 30th anniversary 1982-2012
Date: March 2010
Website: sokoban-jd.blogspot.com/2012/03/sokoban-30th-anniversary-1982-2012.html

42.
Author: Erim Sever
Title: Erim_the 1's half_03.04.2010
Date: April 2010
Website: www.erimsever.com/sokoban.htm

43.
Author: Jordi Doménech
Collection: Magic Sokoban 1
Title: Level 42 Original #1 Lilliput extreme - Dedicated to Erim Sever
Date: April 2010

44.
Author: David W. Skinner
Collection: Microban IV
Title: Level 42 Classic level #1 revised
Date: August 2010
Website: users.bentonrea.com/~sasquatch/sokoban/

45.
Author: David W. Skinner
Collection: Sasquatch XII
Title: Level 22 Original level #1 revised
Date: October 2010
Website: users.bentonrea.com/~sasquatch/sokoban/

46.
Authors: David W. Skinner + Jordi Doménech
Collection: The beautiful world of remodels 4 #60
Title: Sasquatch XII #22 Original level #1 revised
Date: March 2012

47.
Author: krisse727
Title: Level7
Comment: Posted in Let's Logic
Date: December 2010

48.
Author: anian + Jordi Doménech + zhenying
Title: Sokoban 30th anniversary 1982-2012
Date: March 2012
Website: blog.163.com/changkai_8428/blog/static/7745191820123643317569/