Sara Lewis answered
An average home network router has two different IP addresses, one for devices to connect across the LAN (Local Area Network), and one for the internet connection (WAN).
Your router is on the internet, for which is has a unique IP address.
Anything on the inside of your home network is not on the internet, it is
on your LAN, which is a separate local network.
To be part of this network, anything on your LAN must have a unique (within the LAN) IP address. As the LAN is not part of the internet, this IP address can be used by anyone outside the LAN.
Here's a comprehensive explanation of network devices, that will also provide some insight into the distribution of IP addresses: