Can you find out the missing number?

? 4 5 3 5

9 5 7 10 3

John gave half of the apples he had plus one more to Jacob. He gave half of the remaining ones plus one more to James. Now, John was left with just one apple.

Can you find out how many did he have in the beginning?

I noticed one of the words in the oxford dictionary is spelled incorrectly. What about you?

How many pluses should we put between the digits of 987654321 to get a total of 99, and where?

In case you were starting to feel confident, this one was meant for third graders in Vietnam. The answer is 66, but we don't blame you for scratching your head about how they got there.

What does this say?

XLR8

I taste better than I can smell. Who am I?

Which flower has two lips?

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

There was a kingdom in which the king had no heir to take over his thrown. Even the queen was dead and he himself was on the verge of dying. He thought about it and then summoned all of the teenagers. He gave one seed each to all of them and asked them to grow the plant. He announced that the one with the most beautiful plant will become the king/queen of the empire after the death of the king.

After a month, all of them were called. The king looked at all of the plants but announced the girl with an empty pot as the queen of the empire. Why?