Sokoban

An entertaining Japanese puzzle.

Sokoban is an addictive game in which we will have to move a set of balls to place the in the appropriate position. Task that won't be as easy as it may seem due to the fact that it will only be possible to push the balls forward. This is a very interesting logic challenge.

  If two balls are placed beside the wall, forget about moving them. If two balls run into each other in a passage, forget about moving them. Thus, it will only be possible to finish the levels pushing the balls, moving round in circles and trying not to block any, something that will become rather difficult as we progress in the game.

  What's more, to increase the addictiveness, Sokoban save the movements that we have used to finish a level, so another challenge that we can try is to play each level again trying to decrease the amount of movements.

  Sokoban appeared in Japan in 1980 and became popular very fast due to the simplicity of its rules and how addictive it is. Its name means “Warehouse manager” in Japanese and it really represents the idea behind the game, because the game consists in organizing everything using the shortest path.