The Magic Octagon

Jeremiah Farrell; Tom Rodgers

The Magic Octagon

Jeremiah Farrell
, Tom Rodgers

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Abstract

The black nodes mark the corners of an octagon and each of these nodes in connected to four others by lines. The (rather hard) puzzle is to assign the sixteen numbers 0 through 15 to each of the sixteen lines so that each black node has a sum of 30 when the line numbers leading into it are added.

The word version of the puzzle was described in the article "Most-Perfect Word Magic", Oscar Thumpbindle, Word Ways Vol. 40(4). Nov. 2007 .

Original language	American English
Journal	Scholarship and Professional Work - LAS
Volume	2
State	Published - Jan 1 2008

Keywords

magic octagon
magic squares
recreational mathematics

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Geometry and Topology
Mathematics
Other Mathematics

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The Magic Octagon

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