MediumWordplay
"A witch casts me, a pupil does me in Friday's test, and the weather has me when it stays cold for a while. What word am I?"
Answer
Spell
Explanation
'Spell' has three meanings here: a magical charm, the act of writing a word letter by letter, and a period of time, as in 'a cold spell'.
This is a medium riddle in the Wordplay category — Riddles that play with language, puns, and double meanings.
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