Attach a weight to it and throw it over a pier into the ocean (use a fishing magnet to retrieve)
Surgically implant it in yourself
Surgically implant it in a volunteer
Use your bank’s safe deposit box
Pay someone else to hide it for you
Hide it inside a notable artifact that’s already in a museum
Hide it inside a public monument, so you know that it’ll be safe over the duration
Decoy pen
Make a chest of drawers with a false bottom
Hide it in a regular chest of drawers, underneath all the clothes
Place it underneath the floorboards
Disassemble it and reassemble its components into non-pen objects then reassemble it later
Dissolve it in acid (a nobel prize winner once used this to hide their medal)
Invent thermos flasks, and once they are popularised hide the pen in the vacuum between the exterior wall and the interior wall
Sneak into a construction site, and bury the pen underneath drying concrete
Hide it in an attic
Hide it in a basement
Hde it inside a tree
Bury it underneath the ballast of a railway track
Dissasemble it into single-material components, and then surround each component with a block of identical material. Use as paperweights
Hide it in between the double walls of a house
Invent bin liners. Hide between a bin and its bin liner
Cut open a teddy bear, and hide inside
Make a plumbing-standard pipe, with a mesh at each end. Hide pen inside pipe. Insert into your plumbing system
Hide it inside a hat
Coat in precious metals, attach a chain, wear as jewelry
Hide inside a fake book
Hide inside skirting boards
Hide inside a door frame
Hide inside a door
Hide inside the barrel of a gun
Hide inside the shaft of a spear
Hide inside a rail on which curtains are mounted
Hide on top of a tall shelf to tall for the forces of evil to reach
Give it to a miner to hide inside a mine
Hide it inside a teacher’s cane
Hide it inside a window pane
Hide it on the underside of a train (if the force of evil are blindly following magic einstein-pen-trackers this should throw them for a loop)
Sneak it onto a ship under construction, and hide it inside the material of the ship
Give to someone onboard a ship you know will sink on that voyage and whose wreck will not be investigated for the relevant duration
Hide it inside a corpse’s burial clothes
Hide it inside a casket/coffin/whatever-is-the-correct-name-for-the-boxes-people-are-buried-in
Reveal myself to a government of my choice and explain the dilemma. Leave the hiding to them
Throw it up into a gap inside the ornaments on the roof of a historical building
Hide inside a walking stick
Disguise as a different type of pen. Gift to political leader (so it will be both safe and well-kept)
Hide inside a conductor’s baton
Time: 47 minutes
Notes:
A couple of times I found myself adding an ‘honourable mentions’ box, and then finding a way to include it in the main list (‘Gift it to someone → that’s not exactly hiding it → disguise it first’ and ‘Hide it underneath a bin liner → bin liners weren’t invented yet → invent bin liners first’). I used some somewhat absurd solutions the previous two challenges, and inspired by the more down-to-earth answers of others so I tried to limit myself to the possible (nothing outside the technology range available to me, so no inventing AIs to do the job for me) although in the spirit of babble I generally tried to make every idea somewhat workable.
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Keep it in your pocket
Hide it inside a chair leg
Bury in it your garden
Attach a weight to it and throw it over a pier into the ocean (use a fishing magnet to retrieve)
Surgically implant it in yourself
Surgically implant it in a volunteer
Use your bank’s safe deposit box
Pay someone else to hide it for you
Hide it inside a notable artifact that’s already in a museum
Hide it inside a public monument, so you know that it’ll be safe over the duration
Decoy pen
Make a chest of drawers with a false bottom
Hide it in a regular chest of drawers, underneath all the clothes
Place it underneath the floorboards
Disassemble it and reassemble its components into non-pen objects then reassemble it later
Dissolve it in acid (a nobel prize winner once used this to hide their medal)
Invent thermos flasks, and once they are popularised hide the pen in the vacuum between the exterior wall and the interior wall
Sneak into a construction site, and bury the pen underneath drying concrete
Hide it in an attic
Hide it in a basement
Hde it inside a tree
Bury it underneath the ballast of a railway track
Dissasemble it into single-material components, and then surround each component with a block of identical material. Use as paperweights
Hide it in between the double walls of a house
Invent bin liners. Hide between a bin and its bin liner
Cut open a teddy bear, and hide inside
Make a plumbing-standard pipe, with a mesh at each end. Hide pen inside pipe. Insert into your plumbing system
Hide it inside a hat
Coat in precious metals, attach a chain, wear as jewelry
Hide inside a fake book
Hide inside skirting boards
Hide inside a door frame
Hide inside a door
Hide inside the barrel of a gun
Hide inside the shaft of a spear
Hide inside a rail on which curtains are mounted
Hide on top of a tall shelf to tall for the forces of evil to reach
Give it to a miner to hide inside a mine
Hide it inside a teacher’s cane
Hide it inside a window pane
Hide it on the underside of a train (if the force of evil are blindly following magic einstein-pen-trackers this should throw them for a loop)
Sneak it onto a ship under construction, and hide it inside the material of the ship
Give to someone onboard a ship you know will sink on that voyage and whose wreck will not be investigated for the relevant duration
Hide it inside a corpse’s burial clothes
Hide it inside a casket/coffin/whatever-is-the-correct-name-for-the-boxes-people-are-buried-in
Reveal myself to a government of my choice and explain the dilemma. Leave the hiding to them
Throw it up into a gap inside the ornaments on the roof of a historical building
Hide inside a walking stick
Disguise as a different type of pen. Gift to political leader (so it will be both safe and well-kept)
Hide inside a conductor’s baton
Time: 47 minutes
Notes:
A couple of times I found myself adding an ‘honourable mentions’ box, and then finding a way to include it in the main list (‘Gift it to someone → that’s not exactly hiding it → disguise it first’ and ‘Hide it underneath a bin liner → bin liners weren’t invented yet → invent bin liners first’). I used some somewhat absurd solutions the previous two challenges, and inspired by the more down-to-earth answers of others so I tried to limit myself to the possible (nothing outside the technology range available to me, so no inventing AIs to do the job for me) although in the spirit of babble I generally tried to make every idea somewhat workable.