ENIGMA 1537 — A name gameby Susan DenhamA school class consisted of Elsa, John, Marty, Paul, Sheila, Smack and Suzy. I explained to them that a 3x3 magic square consists of an array of nine different numbers such that any row, column or diagonal has the same sum. I asked each of them to make one using only whole numbers between 1 and 26 inclusive. They each succeeded and then I asked them to replace their numbers by letters using A=1, B=2, C=3 and so on. Amazingly, in every case but one the child's magic square contained the letters of their name. Whose did not? |