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It can be cracked, It can be made, It can be told, it can be played. What is it?
Cycle Cycle Cycle.
Whipping one of these out in the wrong setting is said to be terrible luck.
A squiggly line tells you when you've done it wrong
It comes only before, it comes only after. Rises only in darkness, but rises only in light. It is always the same, but is yet always different.
I repeat only the last word you say. The more I repeat, the softer I got. I cannot be seen but can be heard. What am I?