Random Puzzles 

Workings

Hint
Each of the letters surrounding the central V becomes the second letter of a word.

Answers
Vacancy, vaccine, vagrant, vampire, vanilla, varnish, vaulted, various.

Workings

Hint
Try saying the letters out loud.

Answer
E.

These are letters which all sound the same, bee, see, dee, ee, etc. All depending on how you pronounce Z (zee or zed), you can include this.

Workings

Hint
Think literally.

Answer
Because there is 1 more coin!

2,024 = 2,023 + 1.

Workings

Hint
Snakes don't have legs.

Answer
6 snakes, along with 7 people and 14 lizards.

Reasoning
We know that for each person (2 legs) there were 2 lizards (4 legs each).

Which means for every person, we can count a total of 10 legs.

Snakes don't have legs, so the total of 70 legs must have been 7 people (and 14 lizards).

This is a total of 21 heads, so the remaining 6 heads were all snakes.

Double-Checking
7 people gives 7 heads and 14 feet.

14 lizards gives 14 heads and 56 feet.

6 snakes gives 6 heads and 0 feet.

For a total of 6 + 7 + 14 = 27 heads, and 0 + 14 + 56 = 70 feet.