Can you place six X (crosses) in below board without making three in a row in any way ?

Birbal was jester, counsellor, and fool to the great Moghul emperor, Akbar.
The villagers loved to talk of Birbal's wisdom and cleverness,
and the emperor loved to try to outsmart him.
One day Akbar (emperor) drew a line across the floor.
"Birbal," he ordered, "you must make this line shorter, but you cannot erase any bit of it."
Everyone present thought the emperor had finally outsmarted Birbal.
It was clearly an impossible task.
Yet within moments the emperor and everyone else present had to agree that Birbal had made the line shorter without erasing any of it.
How could this be?

There are five vowels (a, e, i, o, u) in the English language.
Can you tell us a word that contains all these vowels?

Complete the table series riddle by finding the number that can replace "??".

What does this mean?

CCCCCCC

In a fruit store, there was a unique weighing machine that was made to weigh only cherries and strawberries as they were priced the same.

Other fruits like watermelons or mango had different machines as they were expensive.

A man successfully buys watermelons at the price of cherries. How?

What number comes next in this sequence:
7 8 5 5 3 4 4 _

There is something which is always coming but never arrives?

You order chicken wings at KFC in the boxes of 6, 9 and 20. What is the largest number of wings that you cannot obtain by buying in any combination of the boxes?

How can you leave a room with two legs and return with six legs?