Can you find out what is missing?

1 3 5
2 4 ?

Hint: It's not six. Think out of the box.

Tell me the Hindi name of a Vegetable which if we remove 1st word will become a precious Stone and by removing the last word it will become a sweet eatable.

In front of you, there are 9 coins. They all look absolutely identical, but one of the coins is fake. However, you know that the fake coin is lighter than the rest, and in front of you is a balance scale. What is the least number of weightings you can use to find the counterfeit coin?

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?

You see a boat filled with people, yet there isn’t a single person on board. How is that possible?

Give it food and it will live; give it water and it will die.

Is the statement valid that it does not matter how much older a sibling is, eventually the younger one will be half as old as the older one?

I have branches, but no fruit, trunk or leaves. What am I?

Can you complete the sequence puzzle?

AR TA GE CA LE VI LI _

John can place six large boxes or nine small boxes into a carton.

Can you find out in how many cartons can he place sixty-six boxes in total?