Can you solve this amazing hard number series problem?
7, 8, 10, 12, 16, 18 ?

Find the missing number in the image below.

Replace the question mark with the correct number below.

Sherlock breaks into a crime scene. The victim is the owner who is slumped dead on a chair and have a bullet hole in his head. A gun lies on the floor and a cassette recorder is found on the table. On pressing the play button, Sherlock hears the message 'I have committed sins in my life and now I offer my soul to the great Lord' and followed a gunshot Sherlock smiles and informed the police that's its a murder.

Why did he think so?

Take away my first letter, then take away my second letter. Then take away the rest of my letters, yet I remain the same. What am I?

I was speeding and ran through a stop sign, yet two traffic officers who were there do nothing about it.

why?

Alpha is Beta's sister.

Gamma is a Beta mother.

Delta is Gamma's father.

Tango is Delta's mother.

Then,

How is Alpha related to Delta?

These types of puzzles are known as charades. What you have to do is 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 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.

Can you Find and name the hidden bird in the picture below ?

f you were running a race, and you passed the person in 2nd place, what place would you be in now?