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25 People Have Brilliant Answers: Where Do You Hide A Paperclip From A Detective Who Has 24 Hours To Find It?
Fan of detective TV shows and movies? One of your nighttime hobbies includes binge-watching true crime shows on Netflix? Well, now is a perfect time to prove it!
Imagine you're given five minutes to hide a paperclip in your home from a detective who has 24 hours to find it. If they don't, you get $10,000. The question is, where are you going to hide the paperclip?
Such a puzzle was posted by one Reddit user in one of the most popular subreddits of all time—r/AskReddit. With almost 80k people liking the now-viral thread, it was only obvious we'd find some amusing, hilarious, and smart replies there. Ranging from laugh-out-loud funny to alarming (you'll find some suspiciously genius answers below), these 30 replies will surely be entertaining to read. After you're done reading the list, think up a strategy of where you'd hide a paperclip in your home and share your answer with all of us in the comment section down below!
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#5
I'm gonna pass. Something tells me this detective is gonna do more than 10,000 worth of damage to my house looking for it. So unless he has a warrant I'm gonna say no.
#7
I’d glue it to the bottom of my shoe. I’d literally be standing there watching him look around my house, and trying not to look down.
#10
Force it down the corrugation of one of the Amazon boxes I've yet to take out to recycling.
#11
Push it through a drywall wall between studs and it should fall to the blocking at 4' increments off the ground code requires. If you can, put a nail into the hole and hang a painting or w/e to hide the small hole, or some Spackle. Later, use a magnet to attract it through the drywall and draw it back up to a hole or other opening in the wall. Even if the detective saw the hole, the paperclip isn't there, that's just the retrieval and drop point. It'd basically be impossible to find without ripping all the walls out. I doubt they could detect it, even using a metal detector because of all the background ferrous metal in nails, nail stops, Simpson clips, wiring, etc. that the detector would pick up everywhere else.
#13
Between the radiator fins of the split-type air conditioner. It's easy to insert, yet the position is not very accessible and would need to disassemble that aircon just to get a glimpse of it.
#15
Firstly I'd straighten it out so it doesn't immediately look like a paperclip. That might help both if it's spotted and in finding a place for it. I would then push it into the gathered fabric at the top of my living room curtains, where it would be absolutely impossible to distinguish from the curtain hooks.
#18
Behind the plate that's screwed into the wall for my carbon monoxide detector Straighten it out and glue it to the inside of a reusable straw Bra underwire Dryer lint trap
#19
Burn one of the many Yankee candles in the apartment until the wax melts, drop it in, let the wax solidify over it.
#23
I'll just temporarily make someone else the owner of my house and when I'm homeless I'll just chuck it in the woods somewhere.
#25
Inside the mattress or natures pocket
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