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[Crazy Girl]

Has anyone managed to solve it without using this fact

Regard the process of adding up numbers to 2056 as a tool for checking a hypothesis rather than as a route to discovering the key.

puzzle posted online at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2149510,00.html

main article at http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2149228.html

[MCC]

I may be wrong but doesn't each small 4x4 grid also add up to 2056

I was rather delighted to see this.

But he was not proud of his grids, lamenting in a letter to a friends that he was “rather ashamed to have it known I spent any part of my time in an employment that cannot possibly be of any use to myself or others”.

MCC

[Crazy Girl]

Franklin also devised a circular puzzle found here, and the accompanying article found here

Moreover, he constructed the puzzle so that any 4 x 4 block of numbers, when added to 6, adds up to 180.

I believe the Times made a mistake and the above should read 2 x 2 block, anyone else confirm this

edited thanks to MCC with right link.

[MCC]

I managed to do the 16x16 by noting that each 2x2 block of four cells summed to 514.


Crazygirl you have the wrong link for the article on the circular puzzle.
This link should take you to the right article.
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2150179.html

I can confirm that it should be 2x2 not 4x4.


MCC