These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is to find two words that are referred to in the first stanza and the second stanza and put them together to form the third word in the third stanza.

Just for example, if my first refers to 'off' and my second refers to 'ice', then my whole will be the 'office'.

My first is present - future's past -
A time in which your lot is cast.

My second is my first of space
Defining people's present place.

My whole describes a lack of site -
A place without length, breadth, or height.

You walk into a room that contains a match, a kerosene lamp, a candle and a fireplace. What would you light first?

Can you find the missing letter in the sequence?
S - T - I - L - ? - T - F - Y - C

What do you answer even though it never asks you questions?

A Shopkeeper sold a few chickens to four different customers on a particular day. It was such that each customer purchased half of the remaining chickens and half the chicken more.

Can you find out how many chicken were sold by the shopkeeper on that day if we tell you that the fourth customer bought a single chicken ?

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?

What's a single-digit number with no value?

Can you name an animal whose killing cannot be performed without spilling your own blood?

There was a strange boy who was born before his father. How can this be possible?

John killed hundreds of people mercilessly and yet the police were not able to put her behind the bars. Why?