MediumLateral
"A teacher asks a student to spell wrong. The student spells W-R-O-N-G. Was the student right or wrong?"
Answer
Right — they spelled wrong correctly
Explanation
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.
This is a medium riddle in the Lateral Thinking category — Riddles that require thinking completely outside the box.
Tags:lateralwordplaylanguage
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