1. Today we have a Magic Square. It’s an array of consecutive positive numbers arranged in chessboard style formation so that each row, each column, and each diagonal will add up to the same total. In today’s square that magic total happens to be exactly one third of the square of the smallest number in the array, and we have the smallest magic square for which this can be so. What are the smallest and greatest numbers in the square?

Magic square had 9 numbers, 8 to 25

Magic square had 16 numbers, 9 to 36

Magic square had 9 numbers, 12 to 20