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Hey Pandas, You Have 5 Minutes To Hide A Paperclip In Your Home. A Detective Will Have 24 Hours To Find It. You Get $10,000 If He Doesn’t. Where Do You Hide It?
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#1
If my husband was the detective I put out in plain sight. He'd never find it.
Otherwise top of the bedroom door frame.
Final score:
25points
Jane Cortez 2 years ago
I would: *Take the rubber feet off of our metal bar stools in the garage and insert it up into one of the legs, then glue it in place with Krazy glue *Pull away the rubber backing that holds the metal rubber tipped pins in our dog grooming brush and poke both ends out to look like hairbrush pins. *Stick it a feather pillow - we’ve only got about 40 of the in the house! *Put it down the kitchen garbarator !
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#2
If the detective only has one shot at saying, "this is the hidden paperclip," I'd put it a container of identical paper clips.
Otherwise, I'd probably tape it under that recess behind the kitchen sink. It's hard as hell to see or reach up there when there's a leak. As long as the detective isn't allowed to remove my plumbing fixtures, I should be winning some money.
Final score:
25points
#3
Inside a sock, then wash it and dry it. The sock fairies will steal it and it will never be seen again.
Or the bottom of my purse. When something goes in, it never comes back out. 😂
Final score:
23points
#4
I unfold it so it's straight and push it through one of the thumbtack holes in the drywall.
Final score:
15points
#6
Page 2 of Google
Final score:
11points
Cheese and rice, Moony! (Submission author) 2 years ago
In all seriousness though, I'd straighten it, then use my sharp tweezers to open a gap in one of my plushies, and shove it inside my plushie. Am I ever getting it out, probably not. Will he find it though? Probably not.
#7
I would anesthetize the detective as soon as he entered my house and surgically implant the paper clip in his stomach along with some very high fiber food. Throughout the 24 hours he would feel the need to use the bathroom more and more. Every time they asked I would say No. Finally, during the 23rd hour I would say, “Oh, OK. You can use the bathroom.” The detective would unknowingly deposit the paper clip into my house right before they were about to win and leave the house with it. Then I would use the money to start a school for detectives to train them in techniques on how to avoid being unknowingly anesthetized. Cash cow.
Final score:
10points
#9
I break it into lots of pieces and hide the little bits and pieces around. If that isn't allowed I will put in the couch's hole, nothing will be found in there.
Final score:
9points
#10
Take the plug off an appliance, straighten the paper clip, slide the paper clip inside the wire casing of the appliance cord, replace plug, collect money.
Final score:
8points
#11
Unfold it and put it in my chandelier
Final score:
7points
*Displayname*=idk 2 years ago
And when he doesn't find it you can sing 🎵🎶"I'm gonna swing from the chandelier" 🎶 🎵
#12
I would hide it in an enormous box of paper clips.
Final score:
7points
Shei Darksbane 2 years ago
This was my first thought. Then I'd hide the box of paper clips too just to be safe.
#14
I would carefully lift one of the houseplants out of its pot, stick the straightened paperclip through into the soil partway down pushing it in far enough neither end is visible, then repot the plant and water well enough to disguise any soil disturbance. Oh, and then quickly wipe up any spilt soil and spend the rest of the five minutes watering the other plants so it doesn't look odd that this one has been watered.
Then in the last minute, flush the toilet so the detective hears the cistern re-filling when they come in, so wastes at least some of their time thinking I've flushed it.
Final score:
6points
#15
I would straighten it out, cut the tiniest hole in the wall-to-wall carpeting, near the tacks (so a metal detector wouldn’t pick it up), and push the paper clip through so it was lying against the subflooring. The detective could be walking over it all night long and never notice.
Final score:
5points
#16
I would unfold the paper clip, twist it into the shape of a bobby pin, and stick it in my hair.
Final score:
5points
#17
That depends. Is it a single specific paperclip that says "Kilroy was here" in miniscule writing and glows in the dark, or any old paperclip?
Final score:
5points
ohjojo (you/your's) 2 years ago
First you must discover if it was giving off any kind of signal, like in this one is a glowing in the dark? Is it radioactive?
#18
Tape it to the top of my ceiling fan, then leave the fan on for the rest of the day.
Final score:
5points
#19
Slide into stick of butter, run finger over hole to hide, rewrap stick & replace in box with other sticks.
Final score:
5points
#20
Am I allowed to carry it on me personally? Easy then - Put it into my luna cup and in it goes! Will take me less than 30 seconds to hide it, cannot fall out by mistake and I am quite sure they are not allowed to search me there without a very good reason and a warrant. I doubt that would be possible within 24 hours. And no, I am not worried about leaving the cup inside for 24 hours. Metal detector? Yeah, piercings, you know... Where can I collect my money?
Final score:
5points
#21
I would fold it into an (almost) ball, then stick it into a plastic straw.
When the detective's not looking, i'll blow into the straw like another human would with blow darts. Onto their head, right as they take off their hat.
In case the detective isn't from the late 1800s, I would simply hide it in my cats litter box like the other 589 people from this post.
Final score:
5points
#23
I will stick it in the jar of a year old peanut butter sitting in the back of the fridge.
Final score:
4points
Marie Dahme 2 years ago
You put your peanut butter in the fridge…what are you? Some kind of sociopath???
#24
Put it in my cats litter tray, just before i clean it
Final score:
4points
Catte West 2 years ago
That was my first thought! Ain't nobody gonna search Mr. Mistoffelees litter without a barf bag handy.
#25
I would unfold it, and stick it in an air vent.
OR
I would Hide it inside of the bale of hay in my backyard.
Final score:
4points
#26
I take a pair of socks. I put it inside one of them and pop them both in the washing machine. I have a fifty percent chance that the sock with the paper clip inside will never be seen on this Earth again. (If necessary, I'll repeat with more pairs of socks until - pouf! - it is gone.)
Final score:
4points
#27
Move the cover from a light switch and push the paper clip in to the space between the electrical box and the drywall. It would fall into the wall cavity below.
Final score:
4points
#28
I'll either stuff it in the rest of the insulation wool I have in the attic or put it under the rear left leg of the table in the cellar. It's full of old stuff and super heavy. Or I'll put it in a carton of milk and close it so it looks unopend - what will he do? Empty all off my milk cartons?
Final score:
3points
Amused panda 2 years ago
I'd check first if the detective allowed to eat/drink from your kitchen during the 24hr search?
#29
Straighten it and stick it into the caulking in the back at the base of the toilet.
Final score:
3points
#30
I would hide it in a bag of sex toys or a poopy baby diaper. I can’t imagine anyone desperate enough to look in either. 😈
Final score:
3points
#31
unfold open my chromebook( IN the chromebook) unfold paper clip shove it inside it then close the gap OR give it ti my little brother every thing he takes never returns.....
Final score:
3points
Cheese and rice, Moony! 2 years ago
As someone who goes to a school that uses chromebooks, that first one is an s-tier hiding spot
#32
Melt a candle down. Put the clip around the wick. Tie a piece of fishing line around the clip and hold it so it's suspended in the middle of the candle. Let the wax resolidify. If needed, light the candle to explain away the scent. Viola, a place the detective is unlikely to look.
Or better yet, just eat the paperclip.
Final score:
3points
Amused panda 2 years ago
I think you will be eating that paperclip, no way you can complete option 1 within 5 minutes.
#33
The dryer, it eats zippers so a paperclip doesn't have a chance.
Final score:
3points
#34
My mum makes quince paste and cuts it into cubes, I would just stick it in one and put it in the bottom of the box and put the box at the back of the fridge. Easy. THE MONEY IS MIIIIIINE!!!!
Final score:
3points
#35
Shove it into a poop in the cat's litter box.
Or if the detective is a man, inside an old tampon in the disposal bag under my bathroom sink. Nasty, but there's no way he'll look there.
Final score:
3points
Sardonyx_3 2 years ago
Or, if the detective is a [human being capable of visible disgust], they wouldn't touch an old, dried-blood(y), crusty tampon of doom.
#36
I would hide my paper clip in the container that holds paper clips.
Final score:
3points
#37
For $10K? Inserted in a turd, in the bottom of one my cats’ litter boxes.
Final score:
3points
#38
I'm not telling! Find it or give me my money
Final score:
3points
#39
In my attic there's cracks between floorboards where you can drop a small item down inside the walls of the house.
Final score:
3points
#41
There's a little crack were the wall meets the floor in my office. A paperclip fell inside and not only is it impossible to see, because that crack goes down into the wall deeply, it's impossible to get it out as well.
I'd put it in there. The detective might suspect it's in there, if he ever finds that little crack, but he'd never be able to prove it.
Final score:
3points
#42
I'd bend so it's shaped like a hair clip/, Bobby pin, and slide it under the tiny spot in our carpeted bedroom along with a couple of small hair clips and/or Bobby pins. Then I'd use something small enough to get under the carpet, like a chop stick, and push the paper clip further under the carpet.
Final score:
2points
#43
I'd put it in the fire place, then the detective wouldn't check there if it was burning wood
Final score:
2points
Amused panda 2 years ago
Only works if you are able to keep the fire fed for the duration of the search (or at least, long enough that the ashes will be too hot to search during hour 23.
#44
Inside the mechanisms of the treadmill. If they scanned it would blend in
Final score:
2points
#46
Hide it in the dog food, not for the dog to eat but just keeping it in the fridge. It’s all wet so they wouldn’t want to touch it.
Final score:
2points
#47
In a dvd case
Final score:
2points
#48
Inside the computer, tarned as a wire
Final score:
2points
#49
I will take our sugar jar when it's only 1/4 of the way full. I will put the paper clip in there and fill the jar up with sugar.
Or take off my bed sheet and cut a tiny hole into my mattress and put it in there. Then put the bed sheet back on
Or in our crafty room, that place is a mess no one can find anything
Final score:
2points
Amused panda 2 years ago
If you make it look like you've hidden it in the crafty room (leave the light on, door swinging etc) you might get a tidy room by the end of the 24hrs
#50
In my big bin of Lego
Final score:
2points
#51
Hide it in a pile of rancid food that has been mixed together and fermented for a week in the garbage bin, and pile a ton of other gross foods and dog c**p and stuff on top.
Final score:
2points
#52
Easy I would put it in my Phone case,Then the detective would never find it
Final score:
2points
#56
Easy I swallow it or shove it up where the sun don't shine or put it inside of a paperclip box. He won't know if the paperclip he found is the one he needs to find or not. OR straighten it and put it into my sword's sheath or in a books binding or just put it under my extremely heavy bed or mess of boxes in my closet
Final score:
2points
#57
I'd turn off all the electricity in my house, go inside, make a bunch of red herrings, then eat it.
Final score:
2points
#58
I would put it in my radiator (it is a tad broken) and have it taped there, paper put over it and painted and also in a lil hole that is somehow in the wall. If not that then I would put it in my pocket.
Final score:
2points
#59
Behind the shelf in the cupboard in my desk. I’d put some stuff on the shelf aswell.
Final score:
2points
#60
I have a lot of wool. Like, a LOT. I would sick the paperclip inside one of the balls of wool, not quite in the middle of the pile, but not on the edge
Final score:
2points
#61
Inside the electrical panel behind my refrigerator. Then I would hide an additional 200 paperclips throughout my house.
Final score:
2points
#64
Seeing as I can't find a marker In my room it's so messy, the answer is my room all I have to do is chuck it in that black hole and enjoy my money
Final score:
2points
#66
I make it the smallest it can be and hide it in a little crack in the fireplace (and hide the evidence of me making it smaller)
Final score:
1point
#69
I would put it in my closet there is a space behind the clothes and the front is so messy you could reach or the attic is above or I have a bunk bed I would put it in the hole and no one could get it out
Final score:
1point
#71
Just one paperclip? I'd paint one with clear nail polish, let it dry, and put it in my box of paperclips.
Final score:
1point
Amused panda 2 years ago
You've only got 5 minutes. I hope you've got quick drying nail polish.
#72
I swallow it.
Final score:
1point
#73
I would detach a part of the decorative magnet that has metal in it and hide it in between and glue it back together and put it back on the fridge door among the other magnets. A metal detector wouldn't be much help. My second choice would be a self-made game character whose inner frame is iron wire. Dismantling it could feel bad even for the detective.
Final score:
1point
#74
I'd put it inside of one of my wool balls. Other options are: behind the oven, within the soil of the snails, in that tiny broken part in the sole of the guest-slippers.
Final score:
1point
#75
i would put it in a ball of yarn, then put that in my yarn stash in my incredibly messy craft closet, impossible.
Final score:
1point
#80
Under a drawer like taped to the bottom or in a picture in a box in my attic
Final score:
1point
#81
Straighten it out (notice a pattern here?) and slide it vertically into the window track--no matter how far you push the window up or down, the way it's constructed will keep the clip from falling down and being detected.
Final score:
1point
#82
Unfold it, insulate it with shrink tube, solder it onto an old curcuit board that's lying around in the box with broken electronics.
Final score:
1point
#83
I put it inside the shower curtain pole..surely the detective won't look there.
Final score:
1point
#84
In the cat litter... I buy 35 lbs. of cat litter in plastic tubs. No one except me changes the litter and in fact, will suddenly have a million other things to do when it's time for a litter change. I'd say it's a 1000% that it would never be found there.
Final score:
1point
#85
I would bend it up so it’s small and then put it in the light fixture on my back patio. It would blend in with all the other bugs!
Final score:
1point
#86
Put it in vegetable drawer of the refrigerator. My husband would never check there. I'm not sure he even knows what a vegetable drawer is!!
Final score:
1point
#87
*eats the paperclip*
Final score:
1point
#88
I would put it in a Tampon box. Most men would never look there.
Final score:
1point
#89
Inside a Baby Ruth inside a "dirty" diaper inside the diaper genie.
Final score:
1point
#91
I would make a hole in the dry wall, push the clip onto the wall itself, patch it up, and repaint it.
Final score:
1point
#93
Probably….
Ok I think I would either flush it down the toilet, that or bend it up and hide it in my backyard.
Final score:
1point
#94
Ok I have a second one that would work better…
So do yall ever hear of a safe box?
And if he gets into the safe imma put it in a container full of identical ones but will slightly bend the one so I can show him later as the cash rolls in
Final score:
1point
#96
Simply put it in front of my doggo. I will never be seen again...
Final score:
1point
#98
Inside the piano. Or the thermometer. Or the back of the toilet, if I’m feeling evil.
Final score:
1point
#99
Inside the attic crawlspace, inside the lighting fixture. If they use a metal detector it might as well blend in. If not I would straighten it it and resend it in a different way to blend in with my metal balls, in the basket, on my table.
Final score:
0points
What do you think ?
Yoga Kitty 2 years ago
Pandas are creative, who would have thought? However, I am even more amused by the army of pearl clutching pandas who downvotes every suggestion including body openings or something a bit more... you know what I mean. Swallowing the clip, however, seems to be okay for some reason... 🤔
Mentally unstable on a table 2 years ago
Not you guys completely outing your hiding places- the BP detectives will check all of these places now /j
Yoga Kitty 2 years ago
Pandas are creative, who would have thought? However, I am even more amused by the army of pearl clutching pandas who downvotes every suggestion including body openings or something a bit more... you know what I mean. Swallowing the clip, however, seems to be okay for some reason... 🤔
Mentally unstable on a table 2 years ago
Not you guys completely outing your hiding places- the BP detectives will check all of these places now /j
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