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 ...

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?

“In my younger days, having once some leisure which I still think I might have employed more usefully, I had amused myself in making . . . magic squares,” Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) wrote in a ...

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 ...

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 ...