John was working on a Chemical Mixture whose weight comprise 90% liquid and 10% solid. The total weight of the mixture is 20 pounds. After a while, John noticed that some of the liquid evaporated and now the liquid comprises just 50% of the weight.

What is the weight of the chemical mixture now?

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.

That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant.

But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother.

Who is lying?

Today, I celebrated my 32nd birthday but I was born in 1972.
How is this possible?

Baseball bat and ball cost $100. If the bat cost $99 more than the ball, what is the cost of each?

Can you make a fire with just a single stick?

We know that the number 7 is the prime followed by a cube. Which next number is also a prime followed by a cube?

Sherlock Holmes was challenged to make a pre-drawn line smaller without erasing it. He did it in fractions of seconds. How?

I am Huge on Sunday and Saturday.
I am small from Tuesday to Thursday.
I do not exist on Monday and Friday.
Who am I?

Can you find the odd number in the following?

2716, 4135, 5321 and 7145