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.
I would straighten it out and then sew it into a pair of jeans near the fly. They would need to inspect every fly seam in every pair of jeans to find it.
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Grab a necklace made with wires and weave it through the metal. Put the necklace in with a bunch of other necklaces. Then take other paperclips and hide then around the place until time is up.
Straighten it, drill a small hole perpendicular to the hinge of one of your doors, put it inside and cover the hole up. If there’s enough time, add some paint to it, otherwise just use the sawdust mixed with some glue. The hole is certainly tiny enough to get unnoticed and any metal detector would hopefully pick up the larger metal hinge instead of the paperclip. Finally, if you also paint it up, it would practically be invisible. Just make sure you use a paint that doesn’t smell too strongly.
Ooh, you wouldn’t even need to do that… knock the pins out of your door hinges, remove the door, put the unbent paperclip INSIDE one of the pins and re-install.
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I think I would open an air vent and hide the paper clip inside the vent, with a small piece of duct tape over it. I think it would just look like someone patched a hole in the air duct.
Pop up some of the quarter round behind one of the toilets and drop the paperclip between the flooring and the studs then a quick tap down of the quarter round. With the extra time I might quickly paint a few spots in other rooms to distract them.
I think this could work.
Distraction paint is a nice touch.
I’m not sure it’s possible. A team of people with the singular goal of finding something with no regard litterally anything else could strip a home in 12 hours.
That said, I would drill a small hole on the backside of one of the roof joists in the far corner of the attic, put the paperclip in that and then use wood putty to seal the hole.
I’m not sure it’s possible.
The time I got caught growing weed, several officers “searched” my home and they literally just didn’t see a massive jar of crushed weed I had on my kitchen table.
Like in plain sight, and some 70g of cannabis, in a large glass jar. And those cops did not ignore it on purpose.
It’s a different situation but still
They were so hyper focused on looking for hiding spots they missed the obvious lul
Even if it’s marked, I think putting in a container full of other paperclips would still work if it’s a big enough thing that even if they started with it, it would take more than 12 hours to find.
Yeah, if you already own enough paper clips, it could come down to chance. They might possibly pick up the special paperclip, but they still have to verify them one at a time, so the odds are in your favor.
I’d unbend it and slip it into the end of an unterminated Ethernet cable and then terminate it. I’ve got boxes of cables that may or may not have ends on them, both factory, home made and hybrid (repairs) cables, and it takes no time to terminate it. Slip the unbent clip into the cable, terminate and throw into the middle of the box, maybe even mix up all the cables so they start to nest.
Good luck fuckers.
I put it through a laminator and cut it into a business card size. I then go up into the attic and press it down into the uninsulated interior wall between my office and son’s room. The size of the laminate should allow me to flex it slightly and pin it between the walls with tension. If they try to remove the wall it will fall into the crawlspace below the house and be caught by a pad of insulation.
Alternatively, tuck it into the barrel of the washing machine in said laminate. It won’t rattle and without fully disassembling it you won’t be able to retrieve it.
Rules here say “can’t cut it”.
I presume they mean cut the laminate, that would make sense then as to business card size. Still not cutting the paperclip
Cutting the clip wouldn’t work, but cutting the laminate is within the rules
I have several boxes of paperclips at home, spread them out and as decoys, and put the real paper clip inside a mechanical pencil after straightening it out and put the pencil into a box of many different pencils, make a tiny mark with a file and mix it up.
The paperclip boxes will distract them for a few hours, but logic will dictate that mixing the paper clip with other’s is dumb as I need to be able to retrieve it with in a resonable timeframe.
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Hmm
I didn’t factor in interrogation. The competitor would leave the premises without contacting the investigator.
No interrogation, no spying on you as you leave. Checking for the paperclip on your person is done by a separate person/machine, away from the investigator or any of their crew.
I think 12 hours of interrogation is long enough to break anyone.
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Aw man, I forgot to add a stipulation that you can’t bribe the investigator.
Just tell them you want your lawyer present ez
Remove the wall plug, straighten the paper clip and insert it into the cable in between the wires, reinstall the wall plug.
Swallow it.
That counts as having the paperclip when you leave. So no, that doesn’t work
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.
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.
