[4] The above example enjoys another special property: the nine numbers in the lower square are consecutive.
This prompted Martin Gardner to describe it as "Surely the most fantastic magic square ever discovered.
"[5] Sallows has produced a still more magical version—a square which is both geomagic and alphamagic.
The Universal Book of Mathematics provides the following information about Alphamagic Squares:[6][7] In 2018, the first 3 × 3 Russian alphamagic square was found by Jamal Senjaya.
Following that, another 158 3 × 3 Russian alphamagic squares were found (by the same person) where the entries do not exceed 300.