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Sokoban is PSPACE-complete
, 1997
"... It is shown that the popular puzzle Sokoban can be used to emulate a linear bounded automata (finite tape Turing Machine (TM)). In particular, a construction is given that has a solution if and only if the corresponding Turing Machine on its input halts in the accept state. Further, if the TM halts ..."
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It is shown that the popular puzzle Sokoban can be used to emulate a linear bounded automata (finite tape Turing Machine (TM)). In particular, a construction is given that has a solution if and only if the corresponding Turing Machine on its input halts in the accept state. Further, if the TM halts and accepts, then the pusher will make \Theta(n + t(n)) moves and pushes, where n is the number of symbols on the input tape, and t(n) is the number of transitions made by the TM during its computation. This construction shows that the puzzles are PSPACE-complete, solving the open problem stated in [1]. 1 Introduction Sokoban is a puzzle game that can be found at various sites on the Internet [2, 3, 5], and through commercial vendors. If sources are correct, Sokoban is Japanese for warehouse person. We will refer to this person as "the pusher". The game consists of the pusher who must push a number of boxes into a set of designated storage locations, without getting himself or the boxes stu...

