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Sokoban (Japanese
for "warehouse keeper") is a
transport puzzle in which the player pushes boxes around a maze,
viewed from above, and tries to put them in designated spaces. Only one
box may be pushed at a time, not two, and they cannot be pulled. As the
puzzle would be extremely difficult to create physically, it is usually
implemented as a
video game.
Sokoban was created in
1982 by Hiroyuki Imabayashi, and was published by Thinking Rabbit, a
software house based in Takarazuka,
Japan. Thinking Rabbit also released sequels - Boxxle, Sokoban Perfect
and Sokoban Revenge.
If you are interested in trying the game you will be glad to know that
there are countless clones of Sokoban available on the Internet, for
almost every computer platform. A version of Sokoban has even
been written in
sed.
Several variants of Sokoban exist, such as
Hexoban,
Trioban and
Multiban.
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