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Pick nine cards to construct a magic square

Jim Howson
Tuesday 14 July 2009 03:49

This 3x3 magic square is very well known and has a constant count of 15 along each of the eight lines of three cells.

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In this week's problem, however, you are asked to take a complete suit of thirteen ordinary playing cards and choose nine of them to make up a 3x3 magic square with a constant of 27. The Ace is to count as 1 and the Jack, Queen and King to count as 11,12 and 13 respectively.

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