Place numbers in a grid in the shape of a hexagon. The standard constraint is that every complete row have the same sum, even though some rows have more numbers than others (in contrast to a magic square). There exists such a unique magic hexagon of order 3.
A "weaker" constraint is to require any three (etc) adjacent numbers in a line to have the same sum. For rows with greater than 3 numbers, the sums are over partial rows. For more magic, one might also require every triangular cluster of three numbers also have that sum. I imagine 3-element sum templates being overlaid on a pattern of numbers.
Another weaker constraint would be to require rows sum to R*X, where R is the number of elements in the full row, and X is the "pre-scaled" magic constant.
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