You're supposed to the "warehouse keeper" and you must to push the "boxes" to its target cells (the dots of color). Use the arrow keys to control the "warehouse keeper" in all four directions. The "boxes" can only push one at a time, and to can push a box it must have at least one space behind it in the direction of thrust.

My thanks to Juan Antonio Jiménez for allowing the use of its excellent program Sokoban en JavaScript.

Skins: "Marble Magic", "Heavy Metal" and "Soko Gems" @ 2006 Gerry Wiseman for YASC Sokoban. "Circle" @ 1999 Ariel Rodriguez. "Macintosh" Clement Gonzalez @ 1996 for Sokoban for the Macintosh. "Borgar Þorsteinsson Sokoban" @ 2000 Borgar Þorsteinsson (adapted by Eric Leung to Sokofan). "Toto" @ 2007 Franco. "BoxWorld Indigo" @ 2003 Juan Uriarte. "Takaken" @ Takaken.

The game Sokoban was created in 1980 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, president of the software company Thinking Rabbit, based in Takarazuka (Japan), who edited the first collection for IBM PC in 1982 (20 levels) and 1984 (50 levels, the collection "Original"). The same company released two sequels of the game, which is only sold in Japan: Sokoban Perfect (1989) and Sokoban Revenge (1991), both with 306 levels. Some of these levels were then included in the two sets of Boxxle (1990, 108 levels) and Boxxle II (1991, 120 levels) of Nintendo GameBoy.

Soko-Ban (1984), for MS-DOS - Spectrum HoloByte

Outside the Japanese market, the legendary game company Spectrum HoloByte (California) published by 1987 (© 1984) the first version of Soko-Ban for Apple II, Commodore 64 and MS-DOS ... And from then until now have appeared a host of new game versions and new collections: for all computer platforms and consoles (Atari, DOS, Windows, Macintosh, Nintendo, Amiga ...), scheduled in all languages, Java and Flash versions for Internet ..., even for mobile phone.

"Sokoban" in Japanese means something like "warehouse keeper": in the original version of the game, the warehouse keeper has to pushing boxes to their destination. Sokoban collections that can be considered "classics" are designed by Thinking Rabbit, all with puzzles very intuitive and relatively easy: "Original" (1984), "Sokoban Perfect" (1989), "IQ Carrier" (1990, a collection of 28 levels for a handheld electronic game from Radio Shack), "Sokoban Revenge" (1991) and the two sets of "Boxxle" (1990-91). If you've never played Sokoban, these are the most desirable collections, and certainly the best way to get into the game.

Boxxle, 1990 - Nintendo GameBoy

The popular Box World (1992 to Windows 3.1, shareware), by Jeng-Long Jiang, is a selection of 100 puzzles from Namida no Soukoban Special (1986, Famicom Disk System, 150 levels, only distributed in Japan).

Currently, there are a handful of great creators of Sokoban collections, all over the world: Howard Abed, J. Franklin Mentzer, Mic (Games4Brains), Jacques Duthen (with the excellent collection "Sokogen" of mini puzzles, with only 2 or 3 "boxes"), Yoshio Murase, Masato Hiramatsu, Monry, ZiKo, Sven Egevad (with extremely difficult puzzles), David Holland, François Marques, Aymeric du Peloux, Evgeny Grigoriev, David W. Skinner, Ghislain Martin, Frantisek Pokorny, Kevin B. Reilly, Erim Sever, gyjgw, Thomas Reinke, Eric F. Tchong, Kenyam, Shaggath ...

Certainly Sokoban is the best puzzle game of all time.

35 puzzles
Date: August 2007
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Collection of big puzzles with many boxes, but easy and fun.

170 puzzles
Date: June 2009
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Mini puzzles of just 3 or 4 boxes. In each puzzle shows the limit of steps to solve the puzzle optimally. Ideal to learn and play with limited steps.

50 puzzles
Date: September 2009
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It is the "Original" collection (1984) of Thinking Rabbit, but modified. Most puzzles are easy, although some have some difficulty, particularly from puzzle #20.

40 puzzles
Date: December 2009
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The arrangement of the boxes in the form of "chessboard" is one of the most difficult puzzle modes (among other reasons, because there are hardly any spaces). This collection is a little "course" of "chessboards" of increasing difficulty.

165 puzzles
Date: May 2010
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Within the wide world of Sokoban, the remodeling is an item that fascinates me most today. This collection (first in a series that I hope it continues) includes all my remodels from January to May 2010. The collection is a tribute to all creators of Sokoban.

Almost all the puzzles in this collection have been posted in the forum Sokoban - Yahoo! Groups. I also want to thank some friends who have accompanied me in this adventure: Eric F. Tchong, Niels Wadsholt, minglw, zhenying, stopheart, and all Sokoban lovers of excellent Chinese MF8 Sokoban forum.

20 puzzles
Date: May 2010
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20 very difficult puzzles. It is the ultimate collection of David Holland, after eight years.

60 puzzles
Date: July-december 2009
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I acknowledge that I am an admirer of Ghislain Martin extremely imaginative and funny puzzles. This series of 30 puzzles is actually the latest addition to its excellent collection "Monde" ("World", 270 puzzles, 2001-2006), which Ghislain has been increasing in the course of time. I highly recommend this collection for those who begin to play Sokoban!

• MF8 Remodels 2009 (112 puzzles)
• MF8 Remodels 2010-1 (90 puzzles)
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This is the "Sistine Chapel" of Sokoban: the best puzzles arranged by the best experts. In the files I have collected all remodels published in MF8 Sokoban forum and others important forums and personal pages dedicated to Sokoban, during 2009 and January-June 2010, respectively. The puzzles are arranged chronologically. In each puzzle shows the URL adress of the website where it was posted.

18 and 17 puzzles
Date: June and december 2009
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Two collections of small puzzles, some quite difficult, but each puzzle is a little gem.

50 puzzles
Date: February 2010
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Excellent collection of mini puzzles for beginners!

150 puzzles
Date: October 2009
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The best 150 puzzles of Eric F. Tchong, selected by Jordi Doménech.

There are easy puzzles, others not so easy and some very difficult, but all are extremely interesting and imaginative. Originality and imagination are the salient features of the puzzles of Eric F. Tchong. In this sense, Eric is the best heir and successor of the excellent puzzles of Thinking Rabbit. I recommend this little set to all lovers of authentic Sokoban.

185 puzzles
Date: April 2010

This file includes 185 versions of the "Original" collection (1984) of Thinking Rabbit, collected by Jordi Doménech. It is a little tribute for the 30th anniversary of Sokoban, 1980-2010.

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Each month we publish here the puzzle that I think is the best remodel. If there are several excellent remodels I publish all of them.
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Software:

• Sokoban YASC, by Brian Damgaard

Forums:

• Sokoban - Yahoo! Groups. The oldest Sokoban forum, since may 1999.

• MF8 Sokoban (in Chinese). Excellent Chinese forum dedicated to Sokoban, very interesting and active. Each month we organized the "MF8 Sokoban Competition" open to all who wish to participate. To register for the forum, follow the instructions in "How to register and post at MF8 forum".