--- title: "Free anagram magic square generator | Once Books" description: "A free anagram magic square generator that makes a printable puzzle, its answer and its hidden saying in one click. Every puzzle has exactly one solution. No sign-up, no watermark." source: "https://www.oncebooks.com/tools/anagram-magic-square-generator" --- 1. [Home](https://www.oncebooks.com/) 2. [Tools](https://www.oncebooks.com/tools) 3. Anagram magic square generator Free tool # Free anagram magic square, with the answer Pick a grid and generate an anagram magic square, then print it with its answer and its hidden saying. Words one way, numbers the other, and exactly one solution. It runs on the same engine as our KDP Publisher Studio. PuzzleDesign Difficulty A harder grade is a bigger grid, and more entries that share four of a box’s five letters so you have to count rather than recognise. The top two grades also leave one box that genuinely fits two entries, settled only by the row and column sums. 4 × 4 grid, 16 words, every line summing to 34. Each entry uses all five letters of one box plus one more. Write its number in that box, and read the letters you added in entry order. Theme ClassicBoldSoftShadedNavyIndigoSkyTealEmeraldForestPlumBerryCrimsonEmberAmberCocoa **Customise colours** Letters Frame Found-word mark Page background Style StandardClean Clean drops the title band and footer, leaving the grid. Generate puzzlePrint / save PDF Two pages: the puzzle and its answer, with the hidden saying. Every puzzle is proved to have exactly one solution by the same engine as our KDP studio. ## Want the whole book? This makes one puzzle. Sign up to turn it into a full anagram magic square book for Amazon KDP: hundreds of graded puzzles at any trim, as print-ready PDFs. [Build the full book](https://app.oncebooks.com/publisher-studio/anagram-magic-square/edit?from=anagram-magic-square&v=2&s=eyJkaWZmaWN1bHR5IjoiTUVESVVNIiwiY29sb3JUaGVtZSI6eyJ0aGVtZUlkIjoiY2xhc3NpYyIsIm92ZXJyaWRlcyI6e319fQ) Free to build · pay once to export Preview The puzzle and its answer, as they print. Hide the preview - Anagram Magic Square Medium Each entry below uses all five letters of one box plus one more. Write its number in that box; every row, column and diagonal then sums to 34. The added letters, in entry order, spell a saying. 1. TEASER 2. HOLDER 3. HORNET 4. FILLED 5. DEPEND 6. CURTIS 7. FINGER 8. KNIGHT 9. SHOWER 10. AROUND 11. SPRING 12. FRAMED 13. THREAD 14. ESCAPE 15. COLLAR 16. POSTER 1 Puzzle - Anagram Magic Square Medium · Solution Each entry below uses all five letters of one box plus one more. Write its number in that box; every row, column and diagonal then sums to 34. The added letters, in entry order, spell a saying. 1. TEASER 2. HOLDER 3. HORNET 4. FILLED 5. DEPEND 6. CURTIS 7. FINGER 8. KNIGHT 9. SHOWER 10. AROUND 11. SPRING 12. FRAMED 13. THREAD 14. ESCAPE 15. COLLAR 16. POSTER A HELPING HAND HERE 2 Solution Generate puzzlePrint / save PDF ## How to make an anagram magic square 1. Pick a difficulty. Choose a grid. A bigger grid means more words to match, and a longer hidden saying. 2. Generate the puzzle. Press Generate puzzle. You get a grid of five-letter words and a numbered list of six-letter ones. 3. Print the two pages. Press Print / save PDF. You get two pages: the puzzle on page one, and the filled grid with the saying on page two. ## How to solve an anagram magic square Every box holds a five-letter word, and every entry in the numbered list is a six-letter word that uses all five of one box’s letters plus one more. Write each entry’s number in its box; the numbers come out a magic square, and the letters you added spell a saying. ### The method 1. Work from the list, not the grid. Take entry one and ask which box’s five letters are all inside it. That is a smaller question than looking at a box and wondering which of twenty-five entries might fit, and it is the same question twenty-five times, which is what makes the puzzle move. 2. Check the fifth letter, not the first four. Most wrong matches share four of the five. STONE is in STONES and it is not in STORED, and the only way to tell is to account for every letter rather than recognising the shape of the word. On the harder grades there are sixty of these near-misses on one page, which is most of the work. 3. Write the added letter down as you go. Beside entry one, write the letter the entry has that its box does not. Do it while the comparison is in front of you rather than at the end. Those letters, read in entry order, spell a saying, and a wrong match shows up as a saying that stops reading, which is the best check you have. 4. Let the sums finish it. From the hard grade up, one box genuinely fits two entries and the letters cannot choose. Look at the row and the column it sits in: only one of the two numbers lets both reach the target, because swapping two numbers in a magic square always breaks a line. That is the step the arithmetic is there for. **The one rule people get wrong** The letters of the box need not appear in the entry in order: they are an anagram, not a prefix. ONSET is five of the six letters of STONES just as much as STONE is. Sort the letters if it helps. **What the answer page shows** The same grid with every number written in, and the saying printed under the word list, so you can check the letters you collected against it. **How the grades differ** The grid, from a 3 by 3 up to a 6 by 6, which is also how long the hidden saying is. The harder grades add near-misses on purpose, and the top two leave a box the letters cannot settle. **Do the sums matter on the easy grades?** They are a check rather than a step. On easy and medium the letters settle every box on their own, so the magic square is how you find a mistake. From hard up it is doing real work: we measured it, and the letters alone leave two arrangements open at hard and four at evil. **Is it the same as a magic square?** It contains one. A plain magic square is arithmetic only, and you are given some of the numbers; here you are given none of them, and the words are what tell you where each number goes. **Good for** Anyone who likes word puzzles but misses having something to add up. ## Publishing a whole book? This tool makes one puzzle for home or the classroom. To make an anagram magic square book you can sell on Amazon KDP, Publisher Studio generates hundreds of graded puzzles across a difficulty curve, at any KDP trim, as a print-ready interior and answers PDF. [See the KDP anagram magic square maker](https://www.oncebooks.com/kdp-anagram-magic-square-maker) ## Questions **What is an anagram magic square?** It is a word puzzle and a number puzzle in one grid. Every box holds a five-letter word, and every entry in the numbered list beside it is a six-letter word that uses all five of one box’s letters plus one more. Write each entry’s number in its box and the numbers come out a magic square, where every row, column and diagonal adds to the same total. Read the letters you added, in entry order, and they spell a saying. **Is this anagram magic square generator free?** Yes. Pick a grade, generate a puzzle and print it with its answer, with no sign-up and no watermark. It is free for classroom, home and personal use. **How do I solve it?** Take an entry and look for the box whose five letters are all in it. On the easier grades the letters settle every box on their own. On the harder ones you will find a box that fits two entries, and that is where the magic square earns its place: only one of the two numbers lets the row and the column reach the target, so the arithmetic decides what the letters cannot. **Do the row and column sums actually matter?** On the easy and medium grades, no: they are a check on work you have already done. From hard upward they are load-bearing. We plant a box that genuinely fits two entries, and measured it: the letters alone allow two arrangements at hard and extreme and four at evil, and the line sums bring every one of them back to a single answer. **Are the words real words?** Both halves of every pair are. The box holds a real five-letter word and the entry is a real six-letter word, drawn from the common half of our dictionary rather than the whole of it, so you will recognise them. That is also why a few letters never appear as the added one: there is no common six-letter word that drops a J onto another real word. **Which sizes fit which paper?** The free tool prints at 8.25 by 11 inches, which holds every grade. The entry list is body copy, so on a short page it and the grid start to compete: our Publisher Studio only offers the grades a trim can really carry, and sixteen of the seventeen KDP sizes carry all five. Studio exports at any KDP trim, from 5.06 by 7.81 up to 8.27 by 11.69, as a print-ready 300 DPI interior. Short of ideas? Browse our [ready-made printables for this puzzle](https://www.oncebooks.com/anagram-magic-square) and print one today.