He ran out of drinking water on a long trip, with nothing but salt water all round him. The hint is Coleridge: “Water, water, every where, nor any drop to drink.”
A man dies of thirst in his own home. How?
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Water, water everywhere.
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His home is a boat, and he’s run out of fresh water at sea
Source: Marguerite Eisenstein, in Jed Hartman’s list of situation puzzles, no. 1.46