Pictured Puzzles and Word Play / A Companion to the Twentieth Century Standard Puzzle Book

by A. Cyril Pearson

No. III.—A MULTIFOLD MAGIC SQUARE

Here is a magic square of 81 cells.

53	8	71	28	73	10	51	6	69
62	44	26	19	37	55	60	42	24
17	80	35	61	1	46	15	78	33
66	21	30	14	59	50	34	79	16
3	39	75	77	41	5	25	43	61
48	57	12	32	23	68	70	7	52
31	76	13	72	27	36	11	56	47
22	40	58	9	45	81	74	38	2
67	4	49	54	63	18	29	20	65

If divided, as is shown, into 9 small squares, each of these is also a magic square, and yet another magic square is formed by the totals of these 9 squares arranged thus:—

396	333	378
351	369	387
360	405	342

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