Problematics | A magic square, but not the kind everyone knows

Magic squares are just that, magic, but they may be too familiar for puzzle solvers like you who are looking for originality. #Puzzle 34.1 ORIGINAL SQUARE 34 23 42 31 54 1 -10 9 -2 21 12 1 20 9 32 24 13 32 21 44 15 4 23 12 35 The one labelled “original square” has, as you can see, 25 numbers including two negative integers. Mailbox: Last week’s solvers: Hi Kabir, If I am the Amateur and given the first chance to remove matches as suggested by you, I will remove 2 on first move, hence leaving 31 for the Ace Player. In the first move, if Ace Player removed x number, I will remove in my next move leaving 26 for Ace Player. — Rahul Agarwal, Bay Area, California Solved both puzzles: Rahul Agarwal, Dr G L Arora, Akshay Bakhai, Puneet Vashistha, Amardeep Singh, Anil Kumar Goyal, Harshit Arora, Amar Lal Miglani, Sunita and Naresh Dhillon, Jasvinder Singh, Nishil Rathod Solved #Puzzle 33.1: Aditya Mittal, Sumit Sharma Solved #Puzzle 33.2: Dr Anurag Mishra, Vikas Goel, Naresh Kumar Khurana, Dr Sunita Gupta, Dr Nakul Makkar, Shishir Gupta.