Hide under the warm fuzzy woolen blankets and crack these enigmatic wordplay puzzles to warm up your brain for studying.

These have been specially brought to you by Jace, Editor, Sales Manager, and a Journalist of the Hogwarts Monthly Magazine.

The first category includes five combinations of letters, numbers, and symbols, that indicate a word or phrase, which is the answer (Hint: there are no magical words in this category.): -

1. mill1on 

2. stairs

    ↑

3. ↓

     town.

4.     c   c

     g a r a g e. 

        r     r

5. B-a-d

Answers to the first category puzzles: -

1. One (1) in a million.

2. Upstairs.

3. Downtown.

4. Two car garage.

5. Breaking Bad.

The second category includes a few hints to help you deduce the answers (there are no magical words as answers in this category), however, the answers are related to each other in being formed from each other by adding or subtracting one or more letters (They are in order from the least letters to the most): -

1. An article in the English alphabet, but not an. (1 letter word) - _.

2. If you reverse the letters in the abbreviation for "Professor Assistant" at Hogwarts, you get this, but it is also the shortened form of Anteroposterior. (2 letters word) - __.

3. A monkey like creature, but smarter and has no tail. (3 letters word) - ___.

4. Pogrebins make you feel a tickling sensation on the ____ of your neck. (4 letters word) - ____.

5. The first ever Potions Professor the famous wizard Harry Potter had. (5 letters word) - _____.

Answers to the second category puzzles: - 

1. A

2. AP

3. APE

4. NAPE

5. SNAPE

- Jace Rhodes, Journalist, Sales Manager, Editor, Hogwarts Monthly Magazine.