Groups comparison

Towers of Hanoi - 1973 to 1999

Sliding puzzle (Sliding block puzzle;Sliding tile puzzle) - 1979 to 2016
A type of puzzle where player usually slides square tiles across a grid where only one square is free.

Sōkoban (倉庫番;Soukoban) - 1982 to 2019
Soukoban is a transport puzzle in which the player pushes objects around a maze and tries to put them in designated locations.

Transport puzzle (Logistics puzzle) - 1982 to 2020
A variety of puzzles where the goal is to transport something somewhere else, such as by sliding/pushing game pieces around.

Tiling puzzle - 1983 to 2016
Sub-genre of transport puzzles.