How many times can you subtract the number two from the number fifty?

I’m tall when I’m young, and I’m short when I’m old. What am I?

If I remove one from eleven it becomes Ten and if I remove one from nine also becomes Ten. How?

I’m orange, I wear a green hat and I sound like a parrot. What am I?

A man started to town with a fox, a goose, and a sack of corn. He came to a stream which he had to cross in a tiny boat. He could only take one across at a time. He could not leave the fox alone with the goose or the goose alone with the corn. How did he get them all safely over the stream?

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.

What can run but never walk, have a mouth that never speaks, have a head that never weeps, and have a bed but never sleeps?

When I go in I might cause pain. I cause you to spit and ask you not to swallow. I can fill your hole. What am I?

I have four wings but can't fly.
I express no emotions.
I am found on the exact spot every time you look.
I keep toiling away with a little sound.

Do you know what am I?

I have a hole in my back and legs I lack.
I live where I can’t breathe and I eat without teeth.
What am I?