Dad Joke explanation
The joke:
I went to school for magicians but failed the final exam.
They were all trick questions.
The joke plays on the double meaning of the word trick.
  • In a magician school, a “trick” is a magic trick (what magicians perform).
  • In normal speech, a “trick question” is a confusing or misleading question designed to fool you.
So when the person says the exam had “trick questions,” it sounds like a normal complaint about a hard test, but in a magician school it also literally means the questions were about magic tricks. The humor comes from that double meaning.
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