Change the 'T' in this cold, snowy season to an 'N', and it describes the victorious person who takes first place. What season is it?
Winter
The season in question is winter, the coldest time of the year marked by frost and snow. Replacing the middle letter 'T' with an 'N' converts 'winter' into 'winner', a champion in a game or contest. Single-letter substitutions inside a word are a classic mechanism for wordplay riddles.
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