A man is found hanged from the middle rafter of an empty barn, his feet three feet off the ground. The rope is ten feet long and the nearest wall is twenty feet away. Nobody could have climbed the walls or the rafters, and the only thing beneath him is a puddle of water. He did it himself. How?
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The puddle isn’t a red herring.
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He stood on a block of ice, and it melted
Source: Anonymous; no. 3 in Paul Sloane’s top ten lateral thinking puzzles