Alpha Magic Squares


An alphamagic square is a magic square where the written numbers on the rows, columns and diagonals add to the same magic constant. But also the amount of letters in those words equals to a different magic constant as well. For example the row 5 + 22 + 18. The sum of these three numbers would equal to 45. In addition five (4 letters) + twenty-two (9 letters) + eighteen (8 letters) sums up to 21. If these values are the same for every row, column and diagonal in a magic square of order n, it is an alphamagic square. The numbers in this magic square do not have to be consecutive. The alphamagic square was first discovered by Lee Swallows in 1986.