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"I'm a threat that ends in a gift. Strangers in costume say me at your door, and if you pay up with sweets, nobody gets tricked. What two words am I?"
Answer
Trick or Treat
Explanation
'Trick or treat' is, taken literally, a playful ultimatum: hand over a treat or have a trick played on you. The custom grew out of older British and Irish traditions of 'guising' and 'souling', in which costumed callers went door to door for food.
This is an easy riddle in the Classic category — Time-honoured riddles passed down through generations.
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