{"id":1153,"date":"2016-10-23T15:54:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-23T07:54:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/?p=1153"},"modified":"2024-02-16T21:09:11","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T13:09:11","slug":"magic-squares-from-latin-squares","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dr-mikes-math-games-for-kids.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/magic-squares-from-latin-squares\/","title":{"rendered":"Magic Squares from Latin Squares"},"content":{"rendered":"

The most recent game I uploaded to this site is a Printable Latin Square Puzzle<\/a>. The goal of the puzzle is to arrange a set of 16 cards into a 4 by 4 grid, following certain rules.<\/p>\n

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On the puzzle page, I provide some downloadable printable cards.\u00a0You could use them, but cards from an ordinary pack of playing cards will do. You only need sixteen cards, for example, all the aces, twos, threes and fours, four from each suit.<\/p>\n

When you’ve solved the grid, each row, column and diagonal, and some other blocks of four,\u00a0will have one card of\u00a0each number, and one of each suit. It’s like a miniature Sudoku puzzle on steroids.<\/p>\n

Here’s an example of a failed attempt to solve the puzzle. It’s not a solution because the columns don’t have one of each suit:<\/p>\n

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Not a solution to the Latin Squares puzzle<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

However, each\u00a0row<\/em> is okay.\u00a0Each row has<\/p>\n