Solver Statistics

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A Sokoban solver program is a program that tries to solve Sokoban levels. There are several solver programs available. (See Sokoban solvers.)

Solver programs may have different objectives:

1. Find any solution
2. Find push optimal solutions
3. Find push optimal solutions with best moves
4. Find move optimal solutions
5. Find move optimal solutions with best pushes

Given the computational complexity of these tasks, a solver program is usually designed for just finding any solution. If a solution is to be optimized, an optimizer program can be used. (See Optimizers.)

The statistics presented here provide a picture of what the best freely available Sokoban solvers can do.
For copyrights, credits and redistribution of these statistics, please read the disclaimer.

General benchmarking information

For practical reasons, almost all tests have been performed with a 10 minutes time limit. The tests are, however, not a 10 minutes contest but a showcase for what the solvers can do, so other time limits are entirely feasible.

The hardware used for the tests is a standard PC with a modern operating system (64bit).

Tests are performed with default solver settings.

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XSokoban Test Suite

The XSokoban level set is the de facto standard test suite in the academic literature on Sokoban solver programming.

• ) 59 solved puzzles according to paper Sokoban Enhancing general single-agent search methods using domain knowledge

The statistic shows that Sokolution is by far the best solver when searching for push optimal solutions.

Large Test Suite

The large test suite comprises level packs selected for being a challenge for the solvers, but not too difficult. The statistics shows the results for the leading Sokoban solver programs.

This test suite is not subject to change, as it is intended to be a "Large Standard Test Suite" for Sokoban solver programs.

Click here to see the detailed results for the Large Test Suite.

Download the entire test suite here or the individual level sets from www.sokobano.de.

Open Test Suite

The statistics shows the results for the leading Sokoban solvers for various level collections. Please note that the grand totals are simple summations. The number of solved unique levels may differ slightly due to duplicate levels in the level packs.

This test suite may be changed by adding new level collections from time to time.

Click here to see the detailed results for the Open Test Suite.

GroupEffort Test Suite

The only reason for benchmarking the GroupEffort test suite is to demonstrate the limited veracity of the statement made in section "6 Conclusion" of the thesis, where the author writes that the GroupEffort solver "outperforms existing solvers".

The benchmarks show that this was only true for the cherry-picked small test set at the time the thesis was published, never for the presumably more representative large test set.

(a): Time limit: 5 minutes     (b): Time limit: 10 minutes     (c): Best GroupEffort solver configuration

Disclaimer

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Sokoban (R) Registered Trademark of Falcon Co., Ltd., Japan
Sokoban Copyright (C) 1982-2004 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, Japan
Sokoban Copyright (C) 1989, 1990, 2001-2004 by Falcon Co., Ltd., Japan


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Credits (in no particular order)
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CosmoNotes, CosmoPoly, LOMA, MicroCosmos, MiniCosmos,
NaboCosmos and PicoCosmos level sets
Copyright (C) by Aymeric du Peloux.
E-mail: aymeric.du-peloux@gadz.org
Web site: unknown


dh1, dh2, bagatelle, cantrip, and maelstrom level sets
Copyright (C) by David Holland
E-mail: unknown
Web site: unknown


Microban, Mas Microban, Sasquatch, Mas Sasquatch, Sasquatch III,
Sasquatch IV, Sasquatch V, Sasquatch VI and Sasquatch VII level sets.
Copyright (C) by David W. Skinner
E-mail: sasquatch@bentonrea.com
Web site: unknown


Grigr2001, Grigr2002 and GrigrSpecial level sets
Copyright (C) by Evgeny Grigoriev  (aka GRIGoRusha)
E-mail: grigr@yandex.ru
Web site: http://grigr.narod.ru/


SokEvo and SokHard level sets
Copyright (C) 2002-2006 by Lee J Haywood
E-mail: fruise@gmail.com
Web Site: http://leehaywood.org/games/sokoban/


Sven level set
Copyright (C) 2007 by Sven Egevad
E-mail: sven.egevad@telia.com
Web Site: unknown


Sokoban Perfect and Sokoban Revenge level sets
Copyright (C) 1989, 1991 by Thinking Rabbit
Web Site: https://sokoban.jp/


Y.M. Auto and Y.M. Handmade level sets
Copyright (C) Yoshio Murase 
E-mail: yoshio@asahi.email.ne.jp
Web Site: http://www.ne.jp/asahi/ai/yoshio/sokoban/index.html


JSoko
Copyright (C) by Matthias Meger
E-mail: JSoko@mail.de
Web site: https://www.sokoban-online.de


Sokoban Automatic Solver (aka Takaken solver)
Copyright (C) 2002 - 200X Ken'ichiro Takahashi (aka takaken)
E-mail: takaken@ic-net.or.jp
Web site: https://computerpuzzle.net/english/sokoban/ver740/index.html 


YASS - Yet Another Sokoban Solver and Optimizer - For Small Levels
Copyright (C) 2007 by Brian Damgaard
Web site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sokobanyasc/


Sokoban YASC 
Copyright (C) 2001-2020 by Brian Damgaard
Web Site: https://sourceforge.net/projects/sokobanyasc/


YSokoban
Copyright (C) 2007 by George Petrov
E-mail: YGP@WriteMe.com
Web Site:  http://ygp.orgfree.com/sokoban.html


XSokoban
Copyright (C) by Andrew Myers
E-mail: andru@cs.cornell.edu
Web Site: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/andru/xsokoban.html


Sokofan
Copyright (C) 2005-2007 by Eric Leung
E-mail: eleung2@hotpop.com
Web Site: unknown


Sokolution
Copyright (C) 2016-2019 by Florent DIEDLER
E-mail: fdiedler2000@gmail.com
Web site: https://sokolution.000webhostapp.com/


Festival
Copyright (C) 2020 by Yaron Shoham
Web site: https://festival-solver.site/


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