Magic Square Madness
(Published on 11. January 2024, 05:00 by Will Power)
Normal Sudoku rules apply. A 3x3 magic square has all three horizontal rows, all three vertical columns and both major diagonals each sum to 15. There are six magic squares in this puzzle. Five of them are in continuous 3x3 areas that the solver must find. The sixth magic square only contains the CENTER CELL of each of the nine standard 3x3 sudoku boxes. KILLER CAGES- Numbers in cages sum to the number in the top left corner of the cage. All numbers in cages are part of continuous magic squares.
Solution code: Row 9 and column 9.
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Solved by hardline35, KyleBaran, cathematician, ludvigr04, Chelo, Iluvsodah, Tamuha, dskaff, slowbiex, Flinty, Flycatcher, olliwright, bnoblett, gotem, SKORP17, yttrio, Lozzo, keenbowl, Ragna, saskia-daniela, ... Tiffanatisk, Gosciola19, Mr.CHEN, theoneobie, stonetim, Thomster, DanST, flaemmchen, naggy, skywalker, drf93, egubachu, Uhu, mango, 3inthecorner, Enkerro, PippoForte, NeroChaos, das, jgarber
Comments
on 14. January 2024, 20:12 by chain.reader
no idea why I chose the locations I chose for the magic squares, it was a guess, and it was correct... I could not figute out how to prove it properly before solving.
on 12. January 2024, 16:33 by erik
Fun puzzle, figuring out the location of the 5th continuous magic square was fun
on 12. January 2024, 14:54 by Will Power
Thanks to all for comments. -Will Power
on 11. January 2024, 18:13 by nunc
Nice interactions. Thanks for setting it.
on 11. January 2024, 16:39 by Ragna
Wonderful puzzle - as always! Thank you very much!
on 11. January 2024, 07:37 by KyleBaran
Magic squares are hard to make challenging, but its a good coffee break puzzle
