# Two hundred and sixty **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [March 6, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381 "2008-03-06T21:54:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/1 "2008-03-06T21:54:41Z")
52 61 04 20 29 13 36 45 14 03 62 46 35 51 30 19 53 60 05 12 28 12 37 44 11 06 59 43 38 54 27 22 55 58 07 23 26 10 39 42 09 08 57 41 40 56 25 24 50 63 02 18 31 15 34 47 16 01 64 48 33 49 32 17 ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/2 "2008-03-06T21:56:45Z")
Sure enough. Neat. ---
**Author:** ![Flander](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8c91f0/32.png) [@Flander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flander)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/3 "2008-03-06T22:01:34Z")
You’ve got 12 in there twice! I’ve no idea what that is. ETA: Oh! Nevermind. Got it. ---
**Author:** ![tdn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/94ad74/32.png) [@tdn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tdn)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/4 "2008-03-06T22:05:44Z")
Pretty cool. ---
**Author:** ![Autolycus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@Autolycus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Autolycus)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/5 "2008-03-06T22:09:49Z")
I for one welcome our new magic square overlords. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/6 "2008-03-06T22:17:12Z")
I must be missing something. Doesn’t repeating ‘12’ negate the coolness? ---
**Author:** ![Zebra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c0e974/32.png) [@Zebra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zebra)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/7 "2008-03-06T22:18:06Z")
Ummm, your matrix is showing. ---
**Author:** ![bannerrefugee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c68b51/32.png) [@bannerrefugee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bannerrefugee)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/8 "2008-03-06T22:33:30Z")
Are these things called magic squares? Oh sorry I see they are :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/9 "2008-03-06T22:52:42Z")
Yeah, but the diagonals don’t work. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/10 "2008-03-06T22:58:59Z")
check your third row. ---
**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/11 "2008-03-06T23:01:47Z")
Did you know that there are over 260 languages and dialects spoken in Los Angeles County? ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/12 "2008-03-06T23:04:53Z")
[QUOTE=D\_Odds] check your third row. [/QUOTE] Yep. (The first 12 should be 21: both that row and that column are off by 9.) ---
**Author:** ![Ca3799](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9f8e36/32.png) [@Ca3799](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ca3799)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/13 "2008-03-06T23:15:11Z")
The year 260 is also the year 10260 on the Holocene calendar… whatever that is. ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/14 "2008-03-06T23:55:33Z")
[QUOTE=Autolycus] I for one welcome our new magic square overlords. [/QUOTE] Beat me to it!! Okay, you and bbs2k both rock, big time! ---
**Author:** ![Hoopy\_Frood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hoopy_frood/32/8452_2.png) [@Hoopy\_Frood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hoopy_Frood)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/15 "2008-03-07T01:46:35Z")
[QUOTE=Ca3799] The year 260 is also the year 10260 on the Holocene calendar… whatever that is. [/QUOTE] It’s a 260’s style death square? ---
**Author:** ![bbs2k](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e495f1/32.png) [@bbs2k](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bbs2k)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/16 "2008-03-07T06:50:46Z")
Whoops, transciption errer. Thanks for catching that. ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 12:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/17 "2008-03-07T12:16:35Z")
Re-entrant Knight’s Tour. (Not a magic square, though.) ```auto 46 31 62 13 34 27 50 11 63 14 47 32 49 12 35 26 30 45 16 61 28 33 10 51 15 64 29 48 9 52 25 36 44 17 60 1 40 21 54 7 59 2 41 20 53 8 37 24 18 43 4 57 22 39 6 55 3 58 19 42 5 56 23 38 ``` ---
**Author:** ![Parthol](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/dec6dc/32.png) [@Parthol](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Parthol)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2008, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/18 "2008-03-07T18:31:25Z")
I had the fortune of actually meeting the guy who made this on my New Zealand honeymoon: [Magic Cube](http://www.1066.co.nz/products/magic_cube.htm) -P ---
**Author:** ![brujaja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@brujaja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brujaja)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/two-hundred-and-sixty/440381/19 "2008-03-08T18:38:34Z")
[QUOTE=Parthol] I had the fortune of actually meeting the guy who made this on my New Zealand honeymoon: [Magic Cube](http://www.1066.co.nz/products/magic_cube.htm) -P [/QUOTE] \