Sokoban for the Macintosh

picture of sokoban level

Sokoban is a puzzle game requiring logical thinking and puzzle-solving, not lightning-fast reflexes. The goal is to push boxes to their correct destinations in a crowded warehouse. The challenge comes in having to think ahead; in the process of moving the first box, you might accidently push another one into a corner. Because the boxes are so heavy, you can only push one at a time and can't pull them at all.

The game was invented in the early 1980s in Japan and won a computer game contest there. Since then, versions have been written for most personal computers.

This Macintosh version is completely free, and runs on any Mac under System 6.0.7 or later (it works best under System 7 or MacOS 8).

New Sokoban 2.5 beta!

Updated Dec 20, 2001: A beta version of Sokoban 2.5. This update allows larger levels and lets you resize the main window. Download now (314K).

This beta may actually end up being the final version. I'm just calling it beta because I haven't tested it completely yet.

Sokoban for the Macintosh features

Completely Free!
Over 200 levels included
Able to undo 10,000 moves
Drag-and-drop movement lets the computer do the easy but boring stuff while you concentrate on the puzzle.
Can make your own levels
Fancy color or monochrome graphics
Single-key undo (ESC key or various others instead of cmd-Z)
Saves your solutions and lets you review them any time.
Uses Macintosh Drag and Drop to make level editing much easier.
You can quit in the middle of a level and pick up again where you left off.

Download

Download version 2.4.2a (202K; released April 11, 1999) at http://members.aol.com/SokobanMac/sokoban2.4.2a.hqx or ftp://members.aol.com/SokobanMac/sokoban2.4.2a.hqx.

New features in version 2.4.2:

Updated my address.
Included Yoshio's levels and Sokowahn sample (also available on Sokoban Levels page).
Removed Boxxle and IQ Carrier levels because they are copyrighted and still being sold in Japan.

What was new in version 2.4:

Better shortcuts: spacebar as a shortcut for Redo.
Undo a whole action; for example, you can undo an entire drag move by hitting undo once instead of once for each step the pusher took in the course of that move.
Sound support.
Save solutions and remember solved levels in external collections (user-created text files).

Future Plans

I'm working on version 3.0 right now. For more info and a chance to download a preliminary version, follow this link.

I also hope to find and distribute many new levels and encourage players to create their own levels. Check the Sokoban Levels page for new levels.

To be notified of updates to sokoban and these web pages, add yourself to my announcement list. You'll receive one email message every couple of months with notice about updates to Sokoban or these web pages, or opportunities for beta testing new versions.

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Last modified: Oct 29, 2001.

Scott Lindhurst, ScottL@alumni.Princeton.edu http://members.aol.com/SokobanMac/scott