A teacher asks a student to spell wrong. The student spells W-R-O-N-G. Was the student right or wrong?

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Right — they spelled wrong correctly. The teacher said spell wrong. W-R-O-N-G is the correct spelling of the word wrong. The student was right. The riddle tricks you into thinking wrong means incorrectly.

"A teacher asks a student to spell wrong. The student spells W-R-O-N-G. Was the student right or wrong?"

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