Fill in the empty cells to create a magic square whose magic sum is 46.
The four numbers in each row, each column, each long diagonal, each of the four corners,
and any 2 x 2 group of touching cells will add up to 46.
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Solution to the Problem:
You can determine the value of the cell in the 3rd row 4th column since 8 + 14 + 13 + that cell equals 46.
So that cell = 11.
Then the top right corner must equal 17 since the cells in the 4th column must equal 46.
So the cell in the 3rd row 2nd column must equal 6 since the diagonals add up to 46.
Then the cell in row 3 column 1 must equal 16 since the numbers in row 3 must add up to 46.
Then the cell in row 2 column 1 must be equal to 5 since the 2nd row adds up to 46.
Since each 2 x 2 group of touching cells must add up to 46, you can determine the following cells:
row 1 column 3: 7
row 1 column 2: 12
row 1 column 1: 10
row 4 column 2: 9
row 4 column 3: 18.
Correctly solved by:
| 1. Colin (Yowie) Bowey | Beechworth, Victoria, Australia |
| 2. Dr. Hari Kishan |
D.N. College, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| 3. Mohamed Sheriff (Meddora) | Freetown, Western area, Sierra Leone, West Africa |
| 4. Cash Henrie |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 5. Ritwik Chaudhuri | Santiniketan, West Bengal, India |
| 6. Srikaran Pathuri |
Chesterfield Elementary School (3rd grade), Chesterfield, Missouri |
| 7. Davit Banana | Istanbul, Turkey |
| 8. Veena Mg | Bangalore, Karnataka, India |
| 9. Wyatt Rees |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 10. Aubrey Reger |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
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| 12. Ivy Joseph | Pune, Maharashtra, India |
| 10. Pace Goates |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 11. Gage Stephens |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 12. Indianna Covington |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 13. Shae Wiggill |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 14. Kelly Stubblefield | Mobile, Alabama |
| 15. Teancum Piekkola |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 16. Kamri Hutchings |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 17. Trace Hadley |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 18. Ashlee Tims |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 19. Katelynn Hope |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 20. Kassidy Hewitt |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 21. Joshua Collings |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 22. Trinity Beman |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |
| 23. Halle Porter |
Mountain View High School, Mountain view, Wyoming |