I am a three-letter cold substance. Put an 'M' in front of me and I become rodents; put a 'D' in front and I become gambling tools. What am I?
Ice
The answer is ice because adding the letter 'M' to the front creates the word 'mice', which are small rodents. Furthermore, placing a 'D' at the beginning forms 'dice', the cubed tools used in board games and gambling. Recognizing how adding initial consonants creates new rhyming words helps you solve this simple letter-addition puzzle.
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