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Article: Most-perfect word magic.
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- Word Ways
- Article date:
- November 1, 2007
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2007 Jeremiah Farrell. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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Here is a rather hard puzzle. Assign the sixteen numbers 0 through 15 to the letters of OSCAR THUMPBINDLE so that the eight words BASH, BUMP, CLAD, CURE, HORN, MIND, PLOT, and SITE each sum to 30. There are 86 ways four of the sixteen numbers can sum to 30 and therein lies the puzzle's difficulty. However, we can make the puzzle almost trivial if we supply a diagram of a magic octagon as a guide. Notice that all of the figure's black nodes add up to 30 when one sums the numbered lines leading into each of them.
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Using this octagon (adapted from "Supermagic and Antimagic Graphs", N. Hartsfield and G. Ringle, J. Rec. Math Vol. 21(2), ...
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