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Redditor Asks People To Imagine They Have 5 Minutes To Hide A Paperclip In Their Home From A Detective Who Has 24 Hours To Find It, And The Answers Are Brilliant (30 Replies)
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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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inside the rubbing alcohol bottle. that way the paperclip sniffing dogs can't find it.
Somewhere safe where ill find it later. Just like everything else I can't find.
I'd un bend it. Then force it down the tube of a near empty pen.
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.
Honestly, I would just put it in a pile of 100 paper clips. He/She would have a 1/100 chance of finding it.
I'd put it in my mask to form the nose bridge.
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.
In a septic tank. If they find it, they deserve to keep that $10,000.
Just hide a bunch of paperclips, when he finds one he'll stop searching
Force it down the corrugation of one of the Amazon boxes I've yet to take out to recycling.
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.
In the junk drawer. Good luck finding anything you're looking for.
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.
in the spine of a book (i have a room of ceiling to floor shelves)
I have a bookcase in my house that's three stories high, it goes from my basement to the second floor.
1. Push it into a fresh turd in the kitty litter.
2. Straighten it out and insert it into one of those pin and string pictures
3. Shape it like a large staple and then use that to staple together some papers.
I'd tape it on the inside of one of the fabric labels on my winter coat, which is currently in a suitcase in my closet with the rest of my winter stuff
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.
I would go into the roof and slide it in between two tiles in a random spot.
With the rest of the paperclips. He'll never know which one is the right one!
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
Burn one of the many Yankee candles in the apartment until the wax melts, drop it in, let the wax solidify over it.
Push it through a hole in the silicone lining of my tub. Then reseal it.
In the attic, stuffed between insulation. I doubt he/she will want to risk fiber glass splinters looking for it.
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.
I expected someone to say underneath the family cat. That's where my remotes like to hide until kitty changes the channel.
I just realized I could put it openly on my cat's collar, and no detective is getting it, b/c my cat vanishes when strangers enter the house!
Load More Replies...Straighten it out, then curl it around my finger and wear it as a ring.
Unfortunately this post was actually created by that detective so he will look in all of these spots. you are all doomed
Slide it under the fridge. If I was the detective I would bring a metal detector with me. Knowing that, I'd hide it somewhere a metal detector would go off anyways and somewhere too inconvenient for him to want to search.
That's what I said. Nothing that goes under a fridge is ever found until you get a new fridge anyway. Or not all of it, anyway.
Load More Replies...I'd stick it in my jean pocket and just not leave. Tape it on the inside of my dog's collar. Hide it in the fish food. Open my window and tape it to the wall next to the previously mentioned window. Put it on some papers in my filing cabinet. Shove it in the lawnmower (it stays in the garage) Hand it to the detective as soon as he walked in. He didn't find it, I gave it to him, thus he gets no money.
I think those people secreting it on their person would be found out very quickly. Detectives would expect that straight away.
i'd give it to my cat...he kinda has a hoarding problem. we r yet to find two mini-rubber balls, two mouse replicas, hundreds of hair ties, bobby pins...the list is endless. we live in a 750-sq foot apt. it's like he has a key to another dimension.
all your stuff will be pushed under a drawer unit or something just out of the cats reach
Load More Replies...Swallow it. We’d have to make an appointment to get an x-ray done of my stomach, which could take weeks. Or wait for me to poop it out, which would take more than 24 hours.
I don't think you'd want to experience the feeling of the ends of the clip making their way through your r****m.
Load More Replies...First I'd straighten it out. Then I'd hide it in a mechanical pencil. Then put that mechanical pencil in my desk drawer. Good luck to the detective. Either that or get 10 pieces of paper and draw x's on them. Put a paper clip on each and hide it somewhere. On the back of the of one, I'd draw in invisible ink a checkmark.
Put it in my black ink bottle. I use a dip pen a lot and have a fair-sized bottle of ink that I could store it in. The detective would probably find it, but I'd love to see the mess he makes during the attempt. That or put it in the sharps bin (my cat is diabetic, so we keep all the used needles in a bin).
Inside my tube of ointment then put that under the fridge - where my cat hides stuff.
id tape it to the bottom of a door or slide it into my dog's fur. they have super thick hair that can conceal almost anything if you try hard enough!
I'd hide it inside my pocket. If they tried to search ME, well... *flashbacks to the first detective who tried*
Id just have it in my palm........... then wen he says "i cant find" id go and "find" it from some obscure place .
Id send it to my sister, together with her books, back to her thru the post
I would carefully wrap the clip around my ponytail and then cover it with a hair tie or two.
Lets see.... things not already mentioned, though my first thought was in my but crack... (what it's, quick, it's accessible, and I guarantee you they're not gonna wanna search there...) there's also behind the molding along the walls and door frames and windows, as well as any of the few dozen planters in the indoor house...clip it to the doggo's collar and tell her to go heard the geese of the park. (she's an australian shepherd. she loves it... and the park people love the lack of geese poo.)
I would say inside a bag of flour or inside pasta (like a long macaroni or similar).
These are all hilarious. I still cringed whenever I read 'he'. Girl detectives rule!
I have some small holes in my ceiling, maybe hide it there the camouflage that hole.
I expected someone to say underneath the family cat. That's where my remotes like to hide until kitty changes the channel.
I just realized I could put it openly on my cat's collar, and no detective is getting it, b/c my cat vanishes when strangers enter the house!
Load More Replies...Straighten it out, then curl it around my finger and wear it as a ring.
Unfortunately this post was actually created by that detective so he will look in all of these spots. you are all doomed
Slide it under the fridge. If I was the detective I would bring a metal detector with me. Knowing that, I'd hide it somewhere a metal detector would go off anyways and somewhere too inconvenient for him to want to search.
That's what I said. Nothing that goes under a fridge is ever found until you get a new fridge anyway. Or not all of it, anyway.
Load More Replies...I'd stick it in my jean pocket and just not leave. Tape it on the inside of my dog's collar. Hide it in the fish food. Open my window and tape it to the wall next to the previously mentioned window. Put it on some papers in my filing cabinet. Shove it in the lawnmower (it stays in the garage) Hand it to the detective as soon as he walked in. He didn't find it, I gave it to him, thus he gets no money.
I think those people secreting it on their person would be found out very quickly. Detectives would expect that straight away.
i'd give it to my cat...he kinda has a hoarding problem. we r yet to find two mini-rubber balls, two mouse replicas, hundreds of hair ties, bobby pins...the list is endless. we live in a 750-sq foot apt. it's like he has a key to another dimension.
all your stuff will be pushed under a drawer unit or something just out of the cats reach
Load More Replies...Swallow it. We’d have to make an appointment to get an x-ray done of my stomach, which could take weeks. Or wait for me to poop it out, which would take more than 24 hours.
I don't think you'd want to experience the feeling of the ends of the clip making their way through your r****m.
Load More Replies...First I'd straighten it out. Then I'd hide it in a mechanical pencil. Then put that mechanical pencil in my desk drawer. Good luck to the detective. Either that or get 10 pieces of paper and draw x's on them. Put a paper clip on each and hide it somewhere. On the back of the of one, I'd draw in invisible ink a checkmark.
Put it in my black ink bottle. I use a dip pen a lot and have a fair-sized bottle of ink that I could store it in. The detective would probably find it, but I'd love to see the mess he makes during the attempt. That or put it in the sharps bin (my cat is diabetic, so we keep all the used needles in a bin).
Inside my tube of ointment then put that under the fridge - where my cat hides stuff.
id tape it to the bottom of a door or slide it into my dog's fur. they have super thick hair that can conceal almost anything if you try hard enough!
I'd hide it inside my pocket. If they tried to search ME, well... *flashbacks to the first detective who tried*
Id just have it in my palm........... then wen he says "i cant find" id go and "find" it from some obscure place .
Id send it to my sister, together with her books, back to her thru the post
I would carefully wrap the clip around my ponytail and then cover it with a hair tie or two.
Lets see.... things not already mentioned, though my first thought was in my but crack... (what it's, quick, it's accessible, and I guarantee you they're not gonna wanna search there...) there's also behind the molding along the walls and door frames and windows, as well as any of the few dozen planters in the indoor house...clip it to the doggo's collar and tell her to go heard the geese of the park. (she's an australian shepherd. she loves it... and the park people love the lack of geese poo.)
I would say inside a bag of flour or inside pasta (like a long macaroni or similar).
These are all hilarious. I still cringed whenever I read 'he'. Girl detectives rule!
I have some small holes in my ceiling, maybe hide it there the camouflage that hole.