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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)

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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#1

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) inside the rubbing alcohol bottle. that way the paperclip sniffing dogs can't find it.

Bubacxo , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

97points

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#2

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) Somewhere safe where ill find it later. Just like everything else I can't find.

craic-house , Jeanne Report

Final score:

95points

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#3

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) I'd un bend it. Then force it down the tube of a near empty pen.

8urfiat , Jacqui Brown Report

Final score:

89points

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#4

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) Burying it with the last detectives who tried.

GreyJedi56 , Michal_Buksa Report

Final score:

88points

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#5

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) 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.

Blatheringman , DVIDSHUB Report

Final score:

87points

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#6

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) I'd put it in my mask to form the nose bridge.

Greenfireflygirl , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

79points

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#7

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) 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.

fishasaurous , needpix Report

Final score:

79points

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#8

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) In a septic tank. If they find it, they deserve to keep that $10,000.

terpdeterp , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

77points

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#9

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) Just hide a bunch of paperclips, when he finds one he'll stop searching

Dikketapir63 , Andrew Kelsall Report

Final score:

65points

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#10

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) Give it my toddler...never to be seen again

lemon_depression , Tamekia Andress Report

Final score:

64points

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#11

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) Force it down the corrugation of one of the Amazon boxes I've yet to take out to recycling.

John__Weaver , Stock Catalog Report

Final score:

61points

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#12

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) 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.

Numinae , needpix Report

Final score:

55points

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#13

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) In the junk drawer. Good luck finding anything you're looking for.

SingleFunction1 , Eugene Meidinger Report

Final score:

51points

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#14

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) 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.

UpvotesKitties , pisauikan Report

Final score:

49points

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#15

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) in the spine of a book (i have a room of ceiling to floor shelves)

rosereprise , Alan Levine Report

Final score:

44points

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#16

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.

Saganasm Report

Final score:

38points

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#17

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) 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

Phaesporic , Wikimedia Commons Report

Final score:

37points

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#18

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.

spiderbabyinapram Report

Final score:

37points

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#19

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) In the attic insulation

Stingwing4oba , Mark Doliner Report

Final score:

36points

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#20

I would go into the roof and slide it in between two tiles in a random spot.

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Final score:

34points

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#21

With the rest of the paperclips. He'll never know which one is the right one!

Final score:

30points

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#22

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

Ufoshark Report

Final score:

28points

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#23

Burn one of the many Yankee candles in the apartment until the wax melts, drop it in, let the wax solidify over it.

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Final score:

23points

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#24

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) In an electrical socket.

Azuenz , Sery Content Development MT Report

Final score:

20points

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#25

Push it through a hole in the silicone lining of my tub. Then reseal it.

monica_9090 Report

Final score:

18points

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#26

One extra ring in a spiral notebook.

uainecas Report

Final score:

17points

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#27

In the attic, stuffed between insulation. I doubt he/she will want to risk fiber glass splinters looking for it.

SteakSauce995 Report

Final score:

17points

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#28

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.

SmartestIdiotAlive Report

Final score:

16points

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#29

Between two slices of bread in the freezer.

__INIT_THROWAWAY__ Report

Final score:

13points

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#30

Inside the mattress or natures pocket

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Final score:

9points

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What do you think ?

les 4 years ago

I'd use it to hold trumps tax returns together, it will never be found

41points

Bob Belcher 4 years ago

LMAO!

4points

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danielw 4 years ago

this implies you can get to them inside of five minutes. I imagine there's whole loads of people who'd pay a fortune to get their hands on them. And I imagine there's another who'd pay a fortune he doesn't have to keep that from happening.

1point

CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago

What if you just put it into your mouth?

0points

angelicabeads 4 years ago

les what

0points

d bradley 4 years ago

i'd put it in Hunter Biden's safety deposit box. nobody will ever look there

0points

Blakkur Sverrir 4 years ago

I have 3 kids. On good days you can't even find the floor

20points

Stille20 4 years ago

Some interesting suggestions but a lot of people seemed to missed that they need to do it in 5 minutes and then leave no evidence of where they have hidden it. Like fibers from insulation.

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les 4 years ago

I'd use it to hold trumps tax returns together, it will never be found

41points

Bob Belcher 4 years ago

LMAO!

4points

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danielw 4 years ago

this implies you can get to them inside of five minutes. I imagine there's whole loads of people who'd pay a fortune to get their hands on them. And I imagine there's another who'd pay a fortune he doesn't have to keep that from happening.

1point

CATMONSTER2018 3 years ago

What if you just put it into your mouth?

0points

angelicabeads 4 years ago

les what

0points

d bradley 4 years ago

i'd put it in Hunter Biden's safety deposit box. nobody will ever look there

0points

Blakkur Sverrir 4 years ago

I have 3 kids. On good days you can't even find the floor

20points

Stille20 4 years ago

Some interesting suggestions but a lot of people seemed to missed that they need to do it in 5 minutes and then leave no evidence of where they have hidden it. Like fibers from insulation.

20points

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