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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>=='''Welcome to the Sokoban Wiki'''==<br />
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[[Image:SokobanExample.gif|frame|right|A ''Sokoban'' puzzle being solved]]<br />
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'''Sokoban''' is a puzzle video game in which the player pushes boxes around in a warehouse, trying to get them to storage locations. <br />
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The game was designed in 1981 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, and first published in December 1982.<br />
The original game of SOKOBAN was written by Hiroyuki Imabayashi.<br />
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Today Sokoban is one of the most popular thought and logic games.<br />
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The name comes from Japan and means "warehouse keeper".<br />
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As simple as that name is, so is the idea of this game: <br />
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A Sokoban puzzle represents a store room, where boxes appear to be randomly placed.<br />
You help the warehouse keeper to push the boxes around the maze of the room so that, at the end, all boxes are on marked fields.<br />
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The only restrictions are that the warehouse keeper can only push a box, never pull, and that just one box may be pushed at a time.<br />
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Each puzzle has a different structure, which requires a different solution - often with a different strategy as well.<br />
The magic of the game is that boxes, which are out of the way on one move, might be in the way on the next move.<br />
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The simplicity of the rules, in combination with the many puzzles ranging from easy to extremely difficult, have made Sokoban become a real classic.<br />
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This Wiki is dedicated to this exciting game.<br />
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:'''Information'''<br />
:* [[The rules of the game]]<br />
:* [[How to play Sokoban]]<br />
:* [[Moves vs. Pushes]]<br />
:* [[Deadlocks]]<br />
:* [[Scientific research]]<br />
:* [[level format | The level format]]<br />
:* [[general Sokoban information | General Sokoban information]]<br />
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:'''Programs'''<br />
:* [[First_Sokoban_program | The first Sokoban program]]<br />
:* [[Links | Sokoban Programs and links]]<br />
:* [[feature_list | Sokoban program feature comparisons]]<br />
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:'''Solvers statistics'''<br />
:* [[Solver Statistics | Sokoban solver statistics]]<br />
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:'''Development'''<br />
:* [[Solver | Solver development]]<br />
:* [[Optimizer | Optimizer development]]<br />
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