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

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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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[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 20 points 6 months ago

Straighten it and use a needle to push it into a tube of toothpaste.

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 6 points 6 months ago

That's a good one. Can't metal detect inside a metal tube, not an obvious hiding spot at all

[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

What about a CT/xray though? Id imagine investigator would be motivated enough to use one

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

What sort of x ray machine could be transported to the site? What size things would fit in a portable x ray machine? How long would each exposure take?

[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Xrays can be pretty immediately viewable they are used by airport security all the time there are smaller portable imaging machines that are more portable but really if i was investigator id start by having my team removing everything from the place and transporting it to the machine. The one half does the imaging and the other half starts tearing into the residence. Whoever finishes first gets to look through every xray image so that every person has inspected every image at least once

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 2 points 6 months ago

Oh right. It would take some time, but not 12 hours to run everything in the house through the X-ray. Including breaking down larger items for scanning.

[-] Nindelofocho@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Yea and some items could be grouped together like toothbrushes and pens/pencils. It would definitely at least take half the day but if assuming unlimited funds/manpower you could have multiple machines manned by teams

[-] Usernameblankface@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

Oh man. Seems there would have to be a limit on manpower and machinery available to the subcontractors

[-] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 1 points 6 months ago

And it's usable. Might need to brush up before my 15 minutes is over. Even less suspicious. (I think).

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