I would get a giant pile of all kinds of paper clips, and put it in the center of the room. Then sprinkle several thousand clips all over the house. The clip in question would be one of the many.
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How would you find it at the end? One of the rules is you have to be able to produce it if they don't find it.
Perhaps memorize the location, or keep a piece of paper on your person (or a note on your phone) that tells you where it is?
Eh, the crew would undoubtedly gather up all the paperclips they find and one would start verifying the clips one by one while the others search. If you win, the piles would be smaller but you would still have to search through the piles they didn't get to in order to prove your victory.
Exactly. And while they waste their time searching the obvious ones, I'd have it hidden in one of hundreds of much less obvious places. Of course I could identify it. I never said the key clip would be in the thousands of obvious ones.
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Put in into the wall using an existing screw hole for a photo then rehang the photo. Take a hammer to the wall later to get it back.
Hmm. I think tearing down all the drywall would be a logical step for the investigator, given that they have extra help. I think they would find it within 12 hours.
Time becomes the constraint, they can't just start smashing walls, that makes everything around harder to search. With something the size of a paperclip they could easily miss it if they just hammer a hole between each stud.
They would have to check the entire room as best they can before they start smashing things and sorting through the rubble... Hmm yes, 12 hours is not too long to give them.
Maybe but there are a lot of wires and pipes running through the walls too. They would spend longer rebuilding the house if they broke every wall and took apart every appliance
They have unlimited time and money on to put the place back together. The only incentive they have to avoid tearing things apart is that finding the paperclip early in the day makes a short day for them, and bragging rights.
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.
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.
Taped to the inside of the blower housing of my furnace.
A pro wouldn't think of that in 12 hours time?
Straighten the paperclip and hide it:
Inside a ballpoint pen. In a spool of wire. Shove it into a side of a cardboard box. Drop it down a drain. Taped to the backside of a shelf. Inside the foam of my headphones. inside an extension cord - make sure to not use it afterwards.
Well, you have to show the paperclip for verification after the 12 hours, so your cord is fine again?
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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.