BrainBashers - Random Puzzles

Puzzle 5

At a recent school fayre, 500 people attended and £500 was raised. The prices were as follows:
Fathers £2.00
Mothers £3.00
Children £0.48

More mothers than fathers turned up. How many children were there?

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Puzzle 6

What proverb is hidden below?
Llamas often overlook khaki bagels. Every furry orangutan relishes eating yummy orange umbrellas. Leopards enjoy aquamarine parsnips.

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Puzzle 7

A woman had three old coins: a silver dollar, a quarter, and a dime. Each coin was a little battered and had a piece missing. She found that exactly the same fraction had broken away from each coin.

What fraction of each was missing if the value of the remaining bits of coins was now exactly one dollar in total?

For this puzzle it can be assumed that ¹/₂ a coin is worth ¹/₂ of its value.

Based on a puzzle by Henry Ernest Dudeney.

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Puzzle 8

Place letters into the grid such that every row, column, and 2x2 block has letters (in any order) that form a common word. Each letter is only used once, and no letter is repeated in the rows / cols / blocks.

Letters allowed: S C H O O L

Note: this puzzle is not interactive, and the squares cannot be clicked.

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