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You are given 23 minutes to hide a paperclip in your house. Afterwards, a detective will be given an hour to find it. Where do you hide it?

QA：你有23分钟的时间把一枚回形针藏在家里的一个地方。之后，将有一名侦探在一个小时内找到它。你会把它藏在哪里？

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Jules Green, worked at McDonald's (2019-2021)

I would throw it into a container full of other paper clips.

我会把它扔进一个装满其他回形针的容器里。

Tomaž Vargazon, Practicing atheist

Eh.

I need to bake bread anyway. I do it without kneading the dough, just put more water in it and let it rise overnight.

I put it in the oven about twenty minutes before he is due to arrive, so it’s nice and hot enough to burn any detective foolish enough to sift through it.

If the detective goes through all of my house including the 2 liters worth of an icky sticky goo heated to searing temperatures, in an hour he can have the paperclip.

诶。

反正我要烤面包。我从来不揉捏面团，就只是在面团里多放些水，让它在一夜之间发酵。

我会在他到达前大约二十分钟把它放进烤箱里，所以它拿出来的时候足够烫，足以逃过任何愚蠢的侦探的探查。

如果侦探搜查把我的房子翻个遍，包括2公升加热到灼热温度的粘糊糊，那么一小时内他就能拿到回形针。

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Michelle Steele - MAD PIRATE QUEEN, Ex-Rookie - Now: Bemused Quora user - 2 year mark achieved

That depends.

If the detective’s job is to find a *specific* paperclip then I’m going to place it in a bathtub full of identical paperclips. Good luck finding the right one, b!tch.

If it’s to find *a* paperclip… then I’m going to pop one of the hooks off of the curtains and replace it with a paper clip by hooking it through a slider.

#devious.

那要看情况。

如果侦探的任务是找到一个特定的回形针，那么我会把它放在一个装满相同回形针的浴缸里。祝你找到正确的那枚，婊子。

如果只是想找到一枚回形针…那么我要把窗帘上的一个钩子拆下来，用一个回形针代替，用滑块钩住它。

#狡猾。

Franklin Liu, lives in Kepler-452b

One lazy Saturday morning, I wake up to find a slip of paper beside me with a paperclip on me.

“You have exactly 23 minutes to hide this paperclip, starting now.”

Across the room, a timer of 23 minutes started. Panicking, I run to the closest store that sells paperclips with some money to buy around 100 of them. 10 minutes left.

Then, I put the paperclips everywhere, and make sure to put one in my pocket.

I get out my viola and put one in. Then, I get out my old violin and tape the actual paperclip in there (probably at the top so nobody can see it) and put a decoy in there too. I put the violin back in the corner of the closet.

Then, I open the top of the piano and tape one to the side of it. Then one behind the TV. A few in front of the TV. A few in the kitchen drawers. Some more in random hiding spots. I also fabricate some possible hiding spots (as in leaving dust tracks, making things seem just used, leaving a few tools lying around somewhere).

After that, I just scatter the paper clips in random hiding spots. I put one in my phone case and one in the metronome.

0 minutes left.

…

一个懒洋洋的周六早晨，我醒来发现身边有一张纸条，上面贴着枚回形针。

“从现在开始，你有整整23分钟的时间来隐藏这个回形针。”

房间的另一端，一个23分钟的计时器启动了。我惊慌失措，跑到最近的一家卖回形针的商店，带着一些钱买回了大约100个回形针。还剩10分钟。

然后，我把回形针放得到处都是，并确保在我的口袋里放一个。

我拿出中提琴，放了一枚进去。然后，我拿出我的旧小提琴，把真正的那枚回形针粘在里面（可能粘在顶部，这样没人能看到），然后在里面放一个诱饵。我把小提琴放回壁橱的角落里。

然后，我打开钢琴的顶部，用胶带将其中一枚粘在钢琴的侧面。然后一个在电视后面。电视前面放几个。厨房抽屉里有一些。还有一些在随机的隐藏点。我还制造了一些可能的隐藏点（比如留下灰尘的痕迹，让它看起来像刚刚用过的东西，在某些地方放一些工具）。

在那之后，我要做的就是把回形针分散在随机的隐藏点。我把一个放在手机壳里，一个放在节拍器里。

还剩0分钟。

…

The detective comes into my house. First, they make me turn out my pockets. I fake a panicked and guilty look as I flip out my pockets and hold the paperclip in my hand (because the detective would know it’s a decoy if I just show it). Then, I quickly hide it in my sleeve and hold the sleeve by the cuff. The detective isn’t pleased and grabs the cuff. The paperclip falls out.

I let them sit in their glory for around a minute and then give them the “no that wasn’t it” talk. 57 minutes left.

Then, the detective goes to check all the bags. They see the viola lying in plain sight. They go through everything (and given the amount of violence) it may or may not get broken. Or the detective finds a paperclip by shaking it around and finds a paperclip.

“Ya think you’re so clever,” I say, laughing.

The detective then goes into my closet. Gets out the violin, does the same. This time, I pretend to be guilty again (as in telling them not to touch it and stuff). Thank goodness I had disturbed the dust there a bit, just to throw them off, but then, I messed around with the entire house.

Then, they spot the screwdriver next to my metronome. They take apart the metronome, and discover the paperclip. “That’s not it,” I say, laughing.

侦探来到我家。首先，他们让我掏出口袋。当我翻开口袋，手里拿着回形针时，我装出一副惊慌失措和内疚的样子（因为如果我把回形针拿出来，侦探会知道这是个骗局）。然后，我迅速把它藏在袖子里，抓住袖口。侦探不高兴了，手拿起了手铐。于是回形针掉了出来。

我让他们沉浸在自己的荣耀中坐了大约一分钟，然后对他们说“不，不是那枚”。还剩57分钟。

然后，侦探去检查所有的包。他们看见中提琴躺在显眼的地方。他们做了所有的杂七杂八的事情（并考虑到暴力拆解），中提琴可能会也可能不会被破坏。或者侦探通过摇晃它找到回形针，然后拿出回形针。

“你觉得你很聪明，”我笑着说。

然后侦探走进我的衣橱。拿出小提琴，做同样的事。这一次，我再次假装惊慌失措（比如告诉他们不要碰它和其他东西）。谢天谢地，我把那里的灰尘弄乱了一点，就是为了做给他们看，但之后，我把整个房子弄得乱七八糟。

然后，他们发现了我的节拍器旁边的螺丝刀。他们拆开节拍器，发现了回形针。“不是那枚哦，”我笑着说。

By this point, at least 30 minutes would have passed, and the detective had already checked the violin. I pretend to be vigilant and continue to follow the detective around.

Finally, the hour is up and the detective gives up. “Where is it?” they ask.

I get a long thin flexible rod and fish it out of the violin, making sure that I take the tape off, too.

Fooled you, I shouted as I push the detective outside the door and slam it in their face. They didn’t even find all the paper clips I hid. This was a piece of cake, until I realize that I’d be finding random paperclips in my house for years on end.

Edit: well, this thing completely blew up overnight. So I think I’ll add a warning here. If for some reason you’re given 23 minutes to hide a paperclip, don’t sue me if these ideas don’t work.

Edit 2: don’t put a paperclip inside your instruments. Don’t sue me if someone tells you to hide a paperclip in 23 minutes and then you tape it inside some instrument and can’t get it out.

…

run like the wind, but every once in a while, remember to stop and look back

这时，至少30分钟过去了，侦探已经检查过小提琴了。我假装很警惕，继续跟着侦探到处走。

最后，时间到了，侦探放弃了。“它在哪里？”他们问。

我拿来一根细长的鱼竿，从小提琴上把它钓出来，确保我也能把带子取下来。

“你被骗了，”我一边喊着一边把侦探推到门外，狠狠地打他们脸。他们甚至没有找到我藏的所有回形针。这是小菜一碟，直到我意识到我会在接下来好多年在家里随机找到回形针。

编辑：嗯，这个答案一夜之间就火了。所以我想我会在这里加上一个警告。如果出于某种原因，你有23分钟的时间藏回形针，如果这些想法行不通，不要起诉我。

编辑2：不要把回形针放在你的乐器里。如果有人告诉你在23分钟内藏一个回形针，然后你把它粘在某个仪器里却拿不出来，不要起诉我。

…

像风一样奔跑，但每隔一段时间，记得停下来回头看看

Mark Harrison, Part-time CTO for several companies

I would give it to my 15yo son, and ask him to “put it away in his room, please.”

If the detective would like to bring friends, I’ll happily give them tea if they agree to let me know if they also find his iPad.

我会把它塞给我15岁的儿子，让他“请把它好好放在他的房间里。”

如果侦探想带朋友来也无所谓，如果他们能顺便找到我儿子的iPad，我会非常乐意给他们喝茶。

Anthony Zarrella, Conservative Catholic, Attorney/Councilor, Constitutionalist

One detective? With one hour?

This is really easy, even if the detective is Sherlock Holmes—people underestimate how long a thorough search can take.

I’m going to make myself a few additional rules, just to eliminate some of the really cheap options:

The paperclip must be both detectable and retrievable without damaging or disassembling the house or any obxt in it (e.g., no plastering it into the wall, or sewing it inside the lining of a suit jacket, or dropping it into a crack in the floorboards). [Opening or removing parts of obxts that are meant to be frequently opened or removed does not count.]

The hiding place cannot be hazardous to the detective in any way (e.g., no dropping it in the garbage disposal or sticking it in a live electrical socket).

The paperclip cannot itself be altered in any way (e.g., no unbending it to make it into a straight wire or painting it to camouflage).

There can only be one paperclip in the house, including any obxt that could easily be mistaken for a paperclip (i.e., no decoys).

It cannot be hidden on my person, nor can the hiding place involve any other living creature (e.g., no hiding it in an orifice, inside my shoe, or under a pet’s collar).

On the other hand, to avoid cheap solutions in the opposite direction, I’m going to assume that the detective has no special equipment like metal detectors or imaging devices—he has to search with his own senses.

只有一个侦探？还有一个小时的时间？

这真的很容易，即使侦探是福尔摩斯，人们也低估了彻底搜查所需的时间。

我将自己制定一些附加规则，只是为了消除一些真正作弊的选项：

回形针必须可检测且可回收，不得损坏或拆卸房屋或其中的任何物体（例如，不得将其塞进墙里，或将其缝在西装外套衬里内，或将其扔进地板裂缝中）。[需要经常打开或移除的物体部件不算在内。]

藏针处不得以任何方式危害到侦探（例如，不得将其扔进垃圾处理器或将其插入带电插座）。

回形针本身不能以任何方式进行伪装（例如，不能将其伸直以使其成为直的针，也不能对其进行喷漆以进行伪装）。

房子里只能有一枚回形针，包括任何容易被误认为回形针的物体（即，没有诱饵）。

它不能藏在我身上，也不能藏在任何其他生物身上（例如，不能藏在孔里、鞋内或宠物项圈下）。

另一方面，为了避免相反思路的廉价解决方案，我假设侦探没有像金属探测器或成像设备这样的特殊设备，他必须用自己的感官进行搜索。

With those rules in mind, here are just a few hiding places that come readily to mind:

Taped to the top side of a drop-ceiling panel.

Taped behind the upper doorfrx of a hanging cabinet.

Sewn to the inside of a t-shirt in the hamper (with just a few threads, so that it can be removed without harming the shirt).

Taped to the back side of a filter screen of an air conditioner.

Inside a mustard bottle in the refrigerator.

Taped to the back wall of a full freezer, behind the back edge of the shelf.

Hung by a nail from the far side of a roof beam in the dark side of the attic.

Taped to the inside of a recessed light socket (between the bulb and the housing, not in the electrical socket).

Inside a shampoo bottle.

考虑到这些规则，这里只是一些容易浮现在脑海中的藏身之处：

贴在天花板的顶部。

贴在挂柜的上门框后面。

缝在篮子里的t恤衫内侧（只需几根线，这样就可以在不损坏t恤衫的情况下取下）。

贴在空调滤网背面。

塞在冰箱里的芥末瓶里。

贴在冰箱的后壁上，在架子的后缘后面。

在阁楼黑暗的一边，用钉子挂在屋子顶梁的远侧。

贴在嵌入式灯座内部（灯泡和外壳之间，不在电气插座中）。

塞在洗发水瓶里。

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