This classic riddle asks: what loses its head every morning and gets it back every night?
The answer is a pillow.
At night, your head rests on the pillow while you sleep. In the morning, when you get out of bed, the pillow “loses its head.” Then at night, when you go back to sleep, the pillow gets a head again.
The clue uses the word “head” in a playful way. The pillow does not have a head of its own; it temporarily has yours resting on it. That is what makes the riddle work.
It sounds mysterious at first because “loses its head” usually describes a person or an object with a removable top. But once you think about bedtime and morning routines, the answer fits naturally.
