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How would you hide a paperclip in your home/apartment to win a contest against an investigator? (self.asklemmy)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by Usernameblankface to c/asklemmy

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This time, with rules.

The other post got me thinking, here's my version.

For 5 million dollars, the task is the hide a paperclip in your home from a professional investigator. You have 15 minutes to hide it, they have 12 hours and subcontractors to find it. You cannot leave your house or have anything shipped in during your 15 minutes. You have to leave immediately after the 15 minutes is up, and you cannot have the paperclip on your person. Any family members, friends, and all pets will also be removed from the premises, and they aren't allowed to have the paperclip.

You must be able to produce the original paperclip at the end in order to win the challenge. It is marked in some way that you don't know but the investigator can verify. Absolutely no substitutions. You can bend the paperclip, but not cut it.

The paperclip must be inside the building. Not in a shared entryway, not outside the walls in any way. Between the studs of the outside walls of whatever you own or rent as living space are as far as you can go.

Any damage done by the investigator or subcontractors will be repaired back the way it was at no charge, win or lose. They are not allowed to harm the structural integrity of your home/apartment.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Firstly, if you can, get a bunch of boxes of paperclips and put them in plausible hiding places. Depending on how they are marked, it might buy you some time.

Some ideas:

Lock it in a safe or strongbox only you know the code for.
Unscrew a plug socket or light switch from the wall, put it in the cavity, and then reattach it.
Get a photograph with a metal frame and slip the paperclip behind the picture itself.
Find some other metalic easy to dismantle thing and hide the clip inside.
Throw it down a drain or other hole, you can use a magnet on a string to retrieve it.

I assume the investigator will systematically remove everything and sweep it with a metal detector. Hopefully these hiding places won't be as obvious.

[–] Usernameblankface 2 points 7 months ago

I figured the investigator would start non-destructively, just moving things around, pickup up loose objects, etc.

But who knows, maybe they go full destruction mode immediately.

They do have a way of verifying, and it would buy some time as they pick up every single paperclip they find and verify it somehow.