You have 5 minutes to hide a paperclip in your home. A detective has 24 hours to find it, If they don't, you get $100,000. Where are you going to hide the paperclip?
You have 5 minutes to hide a paperclip in your home. A detective has 24 hours to find it, If they don't, you get $100,000. Where are you going to hide the paperclip?
I’m just giving it to the detective and losing the money. The detective would do more than $100k damage to my house looking. Checking behind the drywall, under the carpet, tearing open my mattresses, opening my appliances, etc.
Cheaper to save the repair bill.
Now if they pay to fix everything, I use a hammer to open holes in every wall as a misdirection and hide it in the flooring or framing.
I am handing it to my toddler and saying “this is important, don’t lose it”.
Detective has a zero percent chance of ever finding it.
How honest is this detective? Perhaps one can simply offer them 50k of the resulting prize money to not look too hard.
Step 1. Mask the item. Change its size, shape, outline, or appearance. In this case, straighten out to be just a bit of wire. Step 2. Fight gravity. Items fall down normally, so hide it somewhere against gravity. Anywhere you couldn't normally reach is a good start. Step 3. Reach around. Hide the item in a location you can reach, but cannot see. In this case, the air return would be a good place I could reach into and hide a small piece of wire by wedging into the drywall. Step 4. Distract. Take the other boxes of paper clips and scatter them throughout the house. Welcome to the haystack. Step 5. Admit nothing. If they ever claim to have the paper clip, do not check the correct location until the time period has elapsed.
Straighten it and snip it into 4 brad nails. Tap them into your molding at random places in the house. Preferably places with unpainted brads in it, such as stained wood molding.
In a box of paperclips.
The detective... Is he like a Clouseau or a Columbo type? If the former, I could leave it in plain sight and still get the $100k but if it's the latter, I might as well confess the moment he walks in the door because there's nowhere I could hide it he wouldn't sniff it out and make me incredibly uncomfortable as he toys with me for hours before going in for the kill.
Or I could just toss it into a drawer with a million other paperclips and he'd never know which one is the one he's looking for.
Are there any rules on what you can and can't do to the paperclip?
I'm either dropping it down a register or bending it straight and putting it in a mechanical pencil.
Edit: Afterthought. Bend it straight and place it in the ink tube of a pen.
In my paperclip tray
Nice try, detective
Not saying. Any half-decent paperclip detective will read this thread.
Remove an outlet cover, slide the paperclip through one of the wire openings so it drops into the wall, replace cover and figure out what to do with the next 4 minutes.
If I'm allowed to straighten it, I'd straighten it and then poke it into one of those small holes in the back of the inside of a microwave oven.
It's April now.... I'd take a small piece of wood from garage, drill small hole, straighten paperclip and place inside, seal with wood putty, draw crude image of a holiday present on wood with Sharpie, poorly write "merry x-mas mommy, 1986, 2nd grade" on it, rub "ornament" on floor a bit to age, drill hole near top edge, place ornament hook and twist and reshape to mock years of use, bury it in the Christmas ornament box up in the rafters of the garage.
Assuming this is like a neon green and magenta paperclip with a perfectly unique appearance.
My first thought is to bend it straight and stick it down the barrel of a Papermate Sharpwriter, then put said pencil in my pen cup or something.
My next thought is to put it in one of several dozen bottles of chemicals I have around the house. Laundry detergent, fabric softener, floor polish, 3-in-1 oil, car wax, chlorox, soft scrub, etc. But if you've got 24 hours to find it you might just think to empty out all the opaque bottles.
My third thought is to climb up on my roof and wedge it under a shingle.
If that one isn't accepted, I'd see if I could get it to fit in a cat turd in Izzy's litterbox.
My magical "You'll never find what you're looking for" box of cables. The moment I've unpacked and plugged in my newly ordered one, the one I knew I had spawns back in and I'll inevitably find it and curse.
Assuming they aren't allowed to destroy your property to look for the paperclip, I've got a small hole above the shower in the apartment I'm in where I could probably get away with shoving it into.
Straighten it out and slip it in alongside my bra underwire. Can't be any more stabby than it already is so hey
When you greet the detective:
- Slip it into the detective's pocket
- Tape/glue it onto the detective's back
Put it wherever TF the socks go that disappear after doing laundry. You’ll never see it again.
my ass hole, if he finds it.. i still win 😏
Eat it
Drop it in the ranch bottle. There's no way he'd look there and even if he did, it wouldn't be easy to see. Similar ideas would be a shampoo bottle or taped inside a drawer slide so a metal detector wouldn't work
In the sock dimension.
Since others have taken the in-their-ass approach already: inside my microphone. The end unscrews, which isn't really obvious unless you fuck with it. I used to hide my prescriptions in there to get them past room checks at my old boarding school.
Pull a kitchen drawer open all the way and stick it to the bottom of the granite with a bit a blu-tack
In a box of similar looking paperclips
Put it in a box with other paperclips on my office desk.
I just drop it in one of my "unsorted stuff" drawers.
I don't have to be able to find it again to claim the money, right?slip it in the vent of a random heavy appliance like the fridge
My partner has lots of jewelry and wire-wrapped things so... turn it into a wire-wrap piece and mix it up with the other few thousand.
My man, if you can sort through all of that in 24 hours AND find the paper clip you can keep the 10k
I'll hide a bunch of them at different places along with the target. So that they lose confidence or keep looking for similar places every time they find the wrong ones.
Straighten it, cut it into as many tiny pieces as possible with wire cutters for 4 minutes, then spend the last minute spreading them around random places in the carpet, vents, lawn, etc.
I don't know how plumbing works, but I think this would work:
I'd empty the hair from my hairbrush, tangle the paperclip in it and put the clump down my shower drain. Hair clump keeps it from draining away keeping it "in my house." Retrieve after with one of those spikey stick snake things. Spend the remaining 3 minutes touching other hiding places to throw the detective off the scent.
If that doesn't count as in the house I'd probably just slip it into a pocket of a coat in my closet. I doubt they'd think to check every pocket of every item of clothing. They're probably checking all the vents and window panels and little holes in my walls, and I don't think they'd catch me because I go in my closet a lot so it's not like I've disturbed dust to go in there during the 5 minutes.
Taped to my balls.
I'll assume the detective can use an x-ray device so I guess somewhere it won't stand out.
Maybe jam it into the frame if a sliding window.
Maybe into the body of the old wood stove.
Maybe jammed into the basket of the subwoofer.
Maybe wrapped inside a bayonet cap of a light bulb.
Maybe poked into a tube of the metal bed frame.
Maybe wedged into the mechanism of an old vcr.
Maybe in a gap between two corrugated iron sheets on the roof.
I dunno.
unscrew a screw from the wall, put it in some spare space behind it, screw again
In my home? Probably in a fruit.
Does the paperclip need to stay in shape?
Use a neodymium magnet on a long string to place the paper clip near the bottom of a long vent duct.
Sort of cheating - flush it down the toilet.
Playing by the rules - turn it into dust with an angle grinder.
I unfold it and then skewer it into the side of a drop ceiling tile.
Cat litter box, or the bottom of the hay bag for my guinea pig.
I have a bag in a drawer with about 100+ pens of all kinds that I collected over the years. I'd straighten it out and stick it in one of those. Good luck, detective!
inside a really weird sex toy.
Drop it into the dashboard of my car - good luck finding it there if you didn't know.
Open fridge, find bag of sweet peppers, poke paperclip into pepper, return to fridge.
The question is who cleans up afterwards?