What has a neck but no head, and wears a cap? This familiar riddle combines everyday descriptions of a person with the vocabulary used for containers.
Answer: A bottle
The opening of many bottles sits above a narrow section called the bottle’s neck. A cap or lid seals the opening. The object doesn’t have a human head, so the wording of the question is satisfied.
Understanding the wordplay
We often speak figuratively when describing household objects. A bottle has a neck, a table has legs, and a clock has hands. None of these objects is a person. This riddle is a classic example of that wordplay.
More ways to think about the clues
A screw-cap bottle makes the answer particularly clear, but other containers also have narrow necks and closures. The trick isn’t identifying one specific type of bottle: it’s changing the meaning you attach to the words “neck” and “cap.”
This is the same puzzle image as the preceding entry in this batch, so the answer remains a bottle. Can you think of another object described using human body parts?
