Replace the letters of words with a number so that the below equation holds true

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BALL
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GAMES
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What has hands, but can’t clap?

Today is John's birthday.
A year ago, John had five candles and he lit all the candles except the one at the last.
Now he is going to light all the candles.

How old is John Today?

(He is not five today.....)

The day before yesterday I was 25 and the next year I will be 28. This is true only one day in a year. What day is my birthday?

Eight of us go fourth, not back, to protect our king from an attack. What are we?

A father is locked up in jail. His wife has gone bankrupt. Their male child has to sell his hotel in order to gain some money. Yet their girl child does not care and is quite happy.

How can someone be so rude?

A high school has a strange principal. On the first day, he has his students perform an odd opening day ceremony:

There are one thousand lockers and one thousand students in the school. The principal asks the first student to go to every locker and open it. Then he has the second student go to every second locker and close it. The third goes to every third locker and, if it is closed, he opens it, and if it is open, he closes it. The fourth student does this to every fourth locker, and so on. After the process is completed with the thousandth student, how many lockers are open?

A man dies of old age on his 25 birthday. How is this possible?

Next Number in the Series,

5, 16, 49, 104, ?

Find the missing number in the sequence below: