September 2024's Writer Support Thread

Every diagonal, row and column should add up to the same number, but this number is unknown.

Since you gave us a complete diagonal, isn’t the number known? Or are you counting adding 4+5+6 as part of the puzzle?

I think the instructions would be more fitting and the puzzle more puzzling if fewer numbers were filled in. E.g.,

? 7 6
9 ? ?
4 ? 8
? 7 ?
? 5 ?
4 ? ?

Though having a lot of unknowns could be tedious.

Not that it matters for solving, but are the only allowable numbers in magic squares 1-9 (squares can’t contain, say, 35)? That might be fair to mention.


In addition to *text_image, you can also have dark mode versions of images and use *if (choice_nightmode) to display the correct one, as described here:

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