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Player vs Sokoban - What's the difference?

player | sokoban |

As a noun player

is one that plays.

As a proper noun sokoban is

(video games) a computer puzzle game, devised in 1980 and frequently reimplemented, in which the player must push boxes to designated locations under a set of movement constraints.

player

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One that plays
  • # One who plays any game or sport.
  • # (theater) An actor in a dramatic play.
  • # (music) One who plays on a musical instrument.
  • # (gaming, video games) A gamer; a gamester.
  • # (gambling) A gambler.
  • # (historical) A mechanism that actuates a player piano or other automatic musical instrument.
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  • # (electronics) An electronic device or software application that plays audio and/or video media, such as CD player.
  • One who is playful; one without serious aims; an idler; a trifler.
  • A significant participant.
  • He thought he could become a player , at least at the state level.
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  • (informal) A person who plays the field rather than having a long-term sexual relationship.
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    * (l) * See also

    Derived terms

    * accordion player * basketball player * bit player * CD player * football player * player-manager * player piano * record player * rugby player * soccer player * tennis player

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    sokoban

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (video games) A computer puzzle game, devised in 1980 and frequently reimplemented, in which the player must push boxes to designated locations under a set of movement constraints.
  • *1998 , Robert Mercer, Eric Neufeld, Advances in Artificial Intelligence
  • *:These so-called deadlock states are largely responsible for the failure of our attempts to solve positions in the game of Sokoban .
  • *2000 , Zbigniew W Ras, Setsuo Ohsuga (editors), Foundations of Intelligent Systems
  • *:The sokoban problem encodes a small instance of a well known computer game, where a single stone must be pushed to its goal position.
  • * 2002 , Jonathan Schaeffer, H. J. Van Den Herik, Chips Challenging Champions (page 30)
  • Sokoban exhibits a large number of difficult search-space properties.