sokoban
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
name
A computer puzzle game, devised in 1981 and frequently reimplemented, in which the player must push boxes to designated locations under a set of movement constraints.
noun
A video game whose gameplay consists of solving puzzles by pushing blocks in a grid.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "These so-called deadlock states are largely responsible for the failure of our attempts to solve positions in the game of Sokoban."
- "The sokoban problem encodes a small instance of a well known computer game, where a single stone must be pushed to its goal position."
- "Sokoban exhibits a large number of difficult search-space properties."
- "I admire Dungeon and Puzzles for how efficiently made it is. It's a sokoban puzzle game about fighting through dungeons, and it's made predominantly by one person with art pulled from this $10 sprite tilset^([sic – meaning tileset]). […] It's lovely, basically. Dungeon And Puzzles is a simple game, but it's thoroughly charming, one of the better sokobans I've played, and it costs all of £5.79/€8/$8 on Steam."
Etymology
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: 倉庫番