Answers and explanations for all six riddles in Classic Riddles Set 2, including why each one works. Worth reading even for the ones you solved, since a couple have a neater logic than they first appear.
I have branches, but no leaves, no trunk and no fruit. What am I?
Answer: a bank
A bank has branches all over the country, but none of them grow on a tree.
What has a head and a tail, but no body?
Answer: a coin
A coin has heads on one face and tails on the other, and nothing in between.
What gets wetter the more it dries?
Answer: a towel
A towel dries you by soaking up the water, so the harder it works the wetter it gets.
What can travel all the way around the world while staying in one corner?
Answer: a stamp
A postage stamp sits in the corner of an envelope while the letter crosses the globe.
I am not alive, but I grow. I have no lungs, but I need air. I have no mouth, but water kills me. What am I?
Answer: fire
Fire grows as it spreads, needs oxygen to burn, and is put out by water.
What belongs to you, but other people use it far more than you do?
Answer: your name
Your name is yours alone, yet almost every time it is spoken, someone else is saying it.