Why is the Hole below a Lock?

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.

2 ladies and 2 girls need to cross a river in a boat big enough for 1 LADY or 2 girls. How do they do it?

A shepherd had 18 sheep, out of which, all but ten died.

Can you tell us how many sheep was he left with?

Rob is taller than Edwin, and Jurgen is shorter than Rob.
Of only one of the following statements, we now certainly know it is correct:

A.Edwin is taller than Jurgen
B.Jurgen is taller than Edwin
C.It cannot be determined if Jurgen or Edwin is the tallest.

What do you call a fish without an eye?

What is both possible and impossible at the same time?

What English word has three consecutive double letters?

Which is the correct shadow of the bird?

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