Magic Squares: A touch of mysticism and a lot of brain-challenging fun! By Marcel Danesi, Ph.D. in Brain Workout One of the most fascinating number games of all time is the magic square. In its ...

Draw four lines beginning and ending at the gray points to break this square into pieces that can be rearranged into five identical squares. Show puzzle solution Bonus: Suppose you can use any number ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mathematics is a “science which requires a great amount of imagination”, said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya ...

Move a single matchstick so that there are six squares. Each matchstick’s entire length must be part of at least one square. Show puzzle solution There are three solutions, including the mirror image ...

Mathematics is a “science which requires a great amount of imagination”, said the 19th-century Russian maths professor Sofya Kovalevskaya – a pioneering figure for women’s equality in this subject. We ...