Home › Words › S › sokobansokobansokoban means 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.EtymologyBorrowed from Japanese 倉庫番 (sōkoban, “warehouseman”).nameA 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.e.g.“These so-called deadlock states are largely responsible for the failure of our attempts to solve positions in the game of Sokoban.” — 1998, Robert Mercer, Eric Neufeld, Advances in Artificial Intelligence:nounA video game whose gameplay consists of solving puzzles by pushing blocks in a grid.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).