Uniquely Interesting

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in response to "Strangely Interesting" by DYEVOUT, and his item which indeed is interesting, look at the following:

Using the numbers from 1 to 16 inclusive, and laying them out in the following order, you can combine a total of twenty-nine different was to get the sum of any four numbers to be 34.

You can go side to side, corner to cerneo, 4 corner numbers any way you wish as long as it is symetrical. See if you can find more than 29 ways.


8 11 14 1

13 2 7 12

3 16 9 6

10 5 4 15





twenty-nine combinations of 4 numbers each totalling 34

[andy2 0]

that number theory shit gets me all the time. Its really neat, and I almost took some advanced number theory classes. Double primes are neat, too, check it out.

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[JeffD 0]

Heck just try to find all 29 ways. Pretty interesting but a hint is counting going left to right as 1 and right to left as 1.

[Zenister 0]

magic boxes...often used by medieval 'magicians' for obscure and arcane purposes...

ie.. bored on a sunday

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[BlueEyedMonster 0]

Sorry, I suck at numbers

[Push 0]

It says combinations, not permutations. Usually the order doesn't matter in a combination.

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Heck just try to find all 29 ways. Pretty interesting but a hint is counting going left to right as 1 and right to left as 1.

Forget about counting the same set twice (in different directions). I can see well over 29 without any set of 4 containing the same numbers as another set of 4.

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[TheAnvil 0]

I found 33, unless I made a couple of dumb arithmatic errors. Nice puzzle.

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