How did the man hang himself in an empty room with only water on the floor?

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The discussion centers around a riddle involving a man who hanged himself in an empty room with only water on the floor. The solution reveals that he stood on a block of ice to hang himself, which melted by the time he was discovered. The narrative elaborates on the man's unfortunate circumstances, including his struggle with poverty and the loss of his lantern, which led him to attempt repairs on his roof during a rainstorm. This ultimately resulted in his accidental hanging. Participants engage with humor and appreciation for the cleverness of the riddle, with one user correctly identifying the answer.
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A question...!

A man hanged on the cieling of his house...the room was empty...i.e.there was no things like a table or chair etc to stand on it and hang...
But there was only some water on the floor of the room...
Without the help of any support...How did he hang himself?
Gimme the answer!:wink:
 
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He stood on a block of ice, then presumably jumped off and hanged himself. When he was found, the ice had melted.
 
He was a very very poor man. He had gone for many years with no light and finally got enough money saved up to buy a lantern(his only possession other than a ladder,a rope, and some duct tape) but he wanted to hang it like a light so he made a loop the size of the lantern's height and stuck the lantern in the noose tightly. Unfortunately about a week later the lantern fell and shattered and the man was back to living with no light.

A few weeks later the man is trying to sleep on the bare floor and he hears pit pat pit pat, he's got a damned leak. He doesn't have a bucket of course, but he does have a roll of duct tape and a ladder. So he decides to climb up onto the roof in the middle of the night to try to fix the hole because he can't sleep. It is raining so the roof is quite slippery and it just so happens that the roof is very old and that is why there is a leak. He ends up falling through the roof and his head gets caught in the rope, and the leak eventually turns into a puddle.

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Ah, but no holes were found in the cieling/roof!

Wait...what am I doing? :rolleyes: :confused:
 
:rolleyes: I was bored by the obvious solution. lol :smile:
 
Ya,one among you got the correct answer anyway.glad to see that!
 
powergirl said:
Ya,one among you got the correct ans wer anyway.glad to see that!

Congrats, circles! :-p
 
"Cristo" got the right answer...Nice try anyway...
:)
 
Cristo got the right answer;
The Answer is:
"He stood on a block of ice, then presumably jumped off and hanged himself. When he was found, the ice had melted."
:)
Thanks for your funny answer circles...:))
 
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cmon now, my answer works too :rolleyes: :biggrin:
 
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