There are a number of books on a shelf. If one book is the 4th from the left and 6th from the right, how many books are on the shelf?

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

Three friends decide to distribute the soda cans they had among them. When all of them had drunk four cans each, the total number of cans that remained was equal to the cans each one of them had after they had divided the cans.

Can you calculate the total number of cans before distribution?

How can you take 2 from 5 and leave 4?

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

BASE +
BALL
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GAMES
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On a charity event in Russia, Murray beat Djokovic by winning six games and losing three games.
Note: There is a total of 5 service breaks(one who serve lost the game).
Who served first, Djokovic or Murray?

A woman shoots her husband.

Then she holds him under water for over 5 minutes.

Finally, she hangs him.

But 5 minutes later they both go out together and enjoy a wonderful dinner together.

How can this be?

How can you write nineteen in a manner that if we take out one, it becomes twenty?

An ape is trying to climb on a pole that is 60 feet high. Due to the slippery surface, the ape climbs 3 feet in a minute only to slip back 2 feet.

How much time do you think the monkey will take to reach the top of the pole?

If we add four times the age of John four years from now to five times his age five years from now we get ten times his current age.

How old will John be two years from now?