2, 3, 5, 9, 17, _ What is the next number in the sequence?

In the Wild West, you are challenged into a death match by two bounty hunters nicknamed Golden Revolver (GR) and Killer Boots (KB). You accept the challenge. None of you want to waste any of the bullet and so a certain rules are laid down:

1) All of you will shoot in a given order till the last man standing.
2) Each of you shoots only once upon his turn.
3) If any one of you is injured, the other two will finish him off with an iron rod.
4) The worst shooter of all (which is you) shoots first and the best one shoots at the last.

Now, how will you plan things if you know that you hit every third shot of yours, KB hits every second shot and GR hits every shot ?

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

By moving exactly three matchsticks can you make the below equation true.It can be solved by 3 ways.

There was a minor accident with a doctor's son but the doctor noticed no major injury. After the treatment, the father of that doctors son is sitting with the son of the doctor without the doctor being in the room.

How can this be possible?

Suppose we lay down two cups in front of you. One of the cups is filled with tea and the other one with coffee. Now we ask you to take a spoonful of tea and mix it with the coffee. At this moment, the coffee cup has a mixture of tea and coffee. You have to take that mixture (spoonful) and add it back to the tea.

Can you now tell if the cup of coffee has more tea or the cup of tea has more coffee?

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

1. What does:
TIM JOB
represent?

2. What does:
MO_ _
represent?

What is the next number in this matchsticks series riddle?

A pond had 60 fish, out of which, all but 20 died.
How many fishes are now present in that pond?