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Unswop the pairs of numbers to bring back the magic

Jim Howson
Tuesday 21 October 2008 04:51

This diagram started life as a magic square containing the consecutive series 1 to 16. All four rows, four columns and the two long diagonals each summed to a constant total.

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But then two numbers were swopped over, and then another two, destroying the symmetry of the square.

The problem here is to (a) determine the original constant and (b) decide which two pairs of numbers must be swopped back again to restore the magic property of the diagram.

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