Magic Squares: A touch of mysticism and a lot of brain-challenging fun! By Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. in Brain Workout One of the most fascinating number games of all time is the magic square. In its ...

Greetings puzzlers near and far. When I say "far," I mean far because this week's winner is Sugiyama from Tokyo Japan who gets the Puzzle Of The Week via Wired Japan! Sugiyama figured out one of the ...

For thousands of years people have played with magic squares—arrays of distinct numbers whose rows, columns and diagonals add to the same total.* A simple 3-by-3 array that sums to 15 every which way ...

A magic square is an arrangement of numbers where all rows, columns and diagonals add up to the same number, called the magic constant. Can you complete this square by filling in the missing numbers?

IT is rather difficult to describe this little book. It is in no sense a systematic discussion of the construction of magic squares. Rather it consists of a series of examples to show how, by the ...

There’s nothing like a snowy Cleveland Christmas. Just ask mind reader and mentalist Alex McAleer, who in late 2017 spent a week in the Rock Hall city with popular touring magic act Champions of Magic ...

The magic of mathematics is particularly reflected in magic squares. Recently, quantum physicists and mathematicians introduced the notion of the quantum magic square, and for the first time studied ...