Many people now know how to create Magic Squares, including how to create one that adds up to a total specified by a spectator.
Magic Squares became somewhat of a speciality for me, when I wrote a book on this subject as my "entrance examination" to become a Member of The Magic Circle.
It was while I was discussing Magic Squares with David Berglas, who was the President of The Magic Circle at the time, that he told me about a routine he had performed whereby a person’s birthday was included within four cells of a 4 x 4 Magic Square. (David’s Magic Square routines are detailed in the recently published book by David Britland, "The Mind & Magic of David Berglas".)
This short eBook describes the method which I eventually discovered of creating such a Birthday Magic Square, where the top row of four cells forms a specific date (e.g. somebody’s birthday, anniversary, or perhaps Christmas Day).
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
Described by one leading magician as "the definitive work on Magic Squares for years to come", this illustrated, 74-page, A4 comb-bound non-mathematical treatise on Magic Squares covers the following subjects:
- the history of Magic Squares
- general classes of Magic Squares
- various formulae for creating Magic Squares
- detailed analyses of 3 x 3, 4 x 4 and 5 x 5 Magic Squares
- variations on Magic Squares
- Magic Square routines, puzzles and presentations, including "one novel contribution by the author which combines origami (the Crossed Box Pleat) with a Magic Square, The Origami Magic Square, and a prepared sample comes with the book" (Eddie Dawes in The Magic Circular)
- references to approximately 40 other works on Magic Squares and mnemonics.
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
This book contains over 60 puzzles, mathematical tricks and oddities (including Magic Squares).
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Beginners
Although this book is entitled "Mathematical Magic", you do not need to be a mathematical genius to benefit from the wide range of tricks contained therein.
Category : Cards, Coins & Money, General, Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
A well-known puzzle and mathematical expert explains the mathematics behind over 400 tricks that you will be able to perform.
Category : Mathematics
Skill Level : Intermediate
This books contains just over 100 self-working tricks using mathematics and numbers, although you don't need to be a genius to perform them.
Category : Mathematics, Mentalism
Skill Level : Beginners
