Recent Riddles & Brain Teasers

How can you make the following equation true by drawing only one straight line: 5+5+5=550 ?

You are confined in a room and given two metal rods. Out of these two rods, one is magnet and the other is the iron rod. They look starkly similar. You don't have any other metal object in the room.

How will you decide which one of those is magnet?

What is full of holes but still holds water?

What is the next number in this matchsticks series riddle?

What word is represented by this rebus?

When monkey rotate the gear, which mark will be hit 1 or 2 ?

Sherlock breaks into a crime scene. The victim is the owner who is slumped dead on a chair and have a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the floor and a cassette recorder is found on the table. On pressing the play button, Sherlock hears the message 'I have committed sins in my life and now I offer my soul to the great Lord' and followed a gunshot Sherlock smiles and informed the police that's its a murder.

Why did he think so?

There are 2 people near the river and both of them want to get on the other side. The boat can only take one of them. But they got across.
How?

A man has to get a fox, a chicken, and a sack of corn across a river.

He has a rowboat, and it can only carry him and one other thing.
If the fox and the chicken are left together, the fox will eat the chicken.
If the chicken and the corn are left together, the chicken will eat the corn.

How does the man do it?