From Adrian Somerfield
My niece has been showing me her collection of model ANIMALS. She says that some have CLAWS, some have PAWS, though she does not like their JAWS, and the monkey, like the letter Q, has a tail.
In the box, replace the 10 letters in the four words and one letter that I have written in capitals by numbers, according to alphabetic order a=1, c=3, q=17 etc. The box represents numbers 1 to 25 in some order in a magic square, where each row, column and main diagonal have the same sum.
What numbers represent the letters making up MONKEY?
WIN £15 will be awarded to the sender of the first correct answer opened on Wednesday 29 February. The Editor’s decision is final. Please send entries to Enigma 1682, New Scientist, Lacon House, 84 Theobald’s Road, London WC1X 8NS, or to enigma@newscientist.com (please include your postal address).
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Answer to 1675 Reversing the square: The five-digit perfect square is 39204
The winner Ian Fletcher of Saxmundham, Suffolk, UK
