English Explanatory Dictionary

Sokoban

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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
  1. A video game whose gameplay consists of solving puzzles by pushing blocks in a grid.

Pronunciation

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-Sokoban.wav

Word forms

Sokoban sokobans

Etymology

Borrowed from Japanese 倉庫番 (sōkoban, “warehouseman”).

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