Take away the whole and some still remain. What is it?

You’re out on the water and see a boat filled with people. You look away for a second and look back again, but this time you don’t see a single person on the boat. Why? Hint: The boat did not sink.

What mathematical symbol can be put between 5 and 9, to get a number bigger than 5 and smaller than 9?

A bomb goes off.
Carnage.
One person, only a few feet away, survives! How can this be?

A pond had 60 fish, out of which, all but 20 died.
How many fishes are now present in that pond?

On 26-01-2022, Juli was murdered at her house in a city in India in the afternoon. There were three suspects in the murder and the following are the statements that were given by them:

John: I visited my village that day.
Jacob: I was out to deposit my house tax in the municipality office at that time.
Jonny: I was at a friend's place having lunch at that time.

Can you find out who is the murderer?

Two girls were born to the same mother, on the same day, at the same time, in the same month and year and yet they're not twins. How can this be ?

You have a basket containing ten apples. You have ten friends, who each desire an apple. You give each of your friends one apple.
Now all your friends have one apple each, yet there is an apple remaining in the basket.
How?

That attorney is my brother, testified the accountant.

But the attorney testified he didn't have a brother.

Who is lying?

There’s a one-story house in which everything is yellow. Yellow walls, yellow doors, yellow furniture. What colour are the stairs?