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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: video-games
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noun
A video game whose gameplay consists of solving puzzles by pushing blocks in a grid.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
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History
Borrowed from Japanese 倉庫番 (sōkoban, “warehouseman”).
From the 1982 game Sokoban, from Japanese 倉庫番 (sōkoban, “warehouseman”).
