Give it to my ADHD wife and tell her its important. it will never be seen again.

I’m just giving it to the detective and losing the money. The detective would do more than $100k damage to my house looking. Checking behind the drywall, under the carpet, tearing open my mattresses, opening my appliances, etc.

Cheaper to save the repair bill.

Now if they pay to fix everything, I use a hammer to open holes in every wall as a misdirection and hide it in the flooring or framing.

I am handing it to my toddler and saying “this is important, don’t lose it”.

Detective has a zero percent chance of ever finding it.

Turn off the power to the house

Stick the paperclip in an outlet

Turn on power to the house

When the detective goes to grab the paperclip, he dies, you take the 100k

You're all fools. This is clealy posted by a detective stumped looking for the paperclip. Stop giving him ideas!

(Cut up the paperclip with wire cutters, put it in food. Eat food through the day)

How honest is this detective? Perhaps one can simply offer them 50k of the resulting prize money to not look too hard.

I would buy a few thousand dollars worth of paperclips and hide them all over the house. The detective will have to waste time verifying which paperclip is the right one while i laugh and laugh

Step 1. Mask the item. Change its size, shape, outline, or appearance. In this case, straighten out to be just a bit of wire. Step 2. Fight gravity. Items fall down normally, so hide it somewhere against gravity. Anywhere you couldn't normally reach is a good start. Step 3. Reach around. Hide the item in a location you can reach, but cannot see. In this case, the air return would be a good place I could reach into and hide a small piece of wire by wedging into the drywall. Step 4. Distract. Take the other boxes of paper clips and scatter them throughout the house. Welcome to the haystack. Step 5. Admit nothing. If they ever claim to have the paper clip, do not check the correct location until the time period has elapsed.

My house was built in the early 1900s and was used to secretly store and distribute liquor to the town and surrounding areas during prohibition... that money is as good as mine.

Straighten it and snip it into 4 brad nails. Tap them into your molding at random places in the house. Preferably places with unpainted brads in it, such as stained wood molding.

OP asking how to hide drugs from the police.

In a box of paperclips.

Its going up my ass.

Filming the new series of Taskmaster already?

The detective... Is he like a Clouseau or a Columbo type? If the former, I could leave it in plain sight and still get the $100k but if it's the latter, I might as well confess the moment he walks in the door because there's nowhere I could hide it he wouldn't sniff it out and make me incredibly uncomfortable as he toys with me for hours before going in for the kill.

Or I could just toss it into a drawer with a million other paperclips and he'd never know which one is the one he's looking for.

Are there any rules on what you can and can't do to the paperclip?

I'm either dropping it down a register or bending it straight and putting it in a mechanical pencil.

Edit: Afterthought. Bend it straight and place it in the ink tube of a pen.

Tape it to the bottom of a door

In my paperclip tray

Nice try, detective

Not saying. Any half-decent paperclip detective will read this thread.

In my anus

Remove an outlet cover, slide the paperclip through one of the wire openings so it drops into the wall, replace cover and figure out what to do with the next 4 minutes.

If I'm allowed to straighten it, I'd straighten it and then poke it into one of those small holes in the back of the inside of a microwave oven.

Nice try detective, I'm not giving you away my secrets

It's April now.... I'd take a small piece of wood from garage, drill small hole, straighten paperclip and place inside, seal with wood putty, draw crude image of a holiday present on wood with Sharpie, poorly write "merry x-mas mommy, 1986, 2nd grade" on it, rub "ornament" on floor a bit to age, drill hole near top edge, place ornament hook and twist and reshape to mock years of use, bury it in the Christmas ornament box up in the rafters of the garage.

Hand it to the detective and split the $100K. Less work involved for both of us.

Or, it’s going into an empty ice cube tray in that cabinet above the fridge I’ve never been able to reach.

Unscrew the hinge on a door in the house. Stick it behind, screw it back in. You could look there detective.

Turn off breaker (without clock attached), unscrew a wall plate for an outlet, unbend and drop paperclip in wall, below outlet, by sliding it between the electric box and the drywall, put wall plate back, turn breaker back on, put the kettle on for a tea.

Assuming this is like a neon green and magenta paperclip with a perfectly unique appearance.

My first thought is to bend it straight and stick it down the barrel of a Papermate Sharpwriter, then put said pencil in my pen cup or something.

My next thought is to put it in one of several dozen bottles of chemicals I have around the house. Laundry detergent, fabric softener, floor polish, 3-in-1 oil, car wax, chlorox, soft scrub, etc. But if you've got 24 hours to find it you might just think to empty out all the opaque bottles.

My third thought is to climb up on my roof and wedge it under a shingle.

If that one isn't accepted, I'd see if I could get it to fit in a cat turd in Izzy's litterbox.

Assuming they aren't allowed to destroy your property to look for the paperclip, I've got a small hole above the shower in the apartment I'm in where I could probably get away with shoving it into.

My magical "You'll never find what you're looking for" box of cables. The moment I've unpacked and plugged in my newly ordered one, the one I knew I had spawns back in and I'll inevitably find it and curse.

Put it wherever TF the socks go that disappear after doing laundry. You’ll never see it again.

Straighten it out and slip it in alongside my bra underwire. Can't be any more stabby than it already is so hey

When you greet the detective:

• Slip it into the detective's pocket
• Tape/glue it onto the detective's back

my ass hole, if he finds it.. i still win 😏

glue it to a leaf. insert leaf in rain gutter.

Eat it

Buy 10,000 paperclips and scatter them throughout the house. Hide the target one somewhere obscure. It'll take more than 24 hours for him to find the exact right one.