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.

A Dublin student has taken some of the magic out of the magic square, the familiar number puzzle that even in its simplest form can defeat most people. She has developed a method that will solve ...

Benjamin Franklin's remarkable magic squares are just three of more than 1 million possibilities. ... The main, corner-to-corner diagonals, however, do not add up to the magic number.

A magic square is a square matrix drawn as a grid filled with numbers. It consists of a set of integers arranged in the form of square so that the numbers in each row, column, and diagonal all add ...

A magic square is a square of numbers such that every column and every row sums to the same number. For example, in the magic square of the Sagrada Família every row and column sums to 33.

IN the interesting discourse reproduced in your issue of March 13 (p. 447), there is a statement that the number of magic squares of order 5 exceeds 60,000. Major MacMahon informs me that he gave ...