The paper clip- test has been used to identify lateral thinking ability.
100 Paper clip uses cheat sheet
If you’re using this as a cheat sheet to impress someone, remember to show a range of different task categories.
For example, 5 ways to use a paper clip as a scratching tool, 5 ways for decoration…etc.
Simply listing all the different ways that it can be used to clip things together isn’t a sign of mental agility.
See The 2023 Updated and Revised ‘100 Uses for a Paper Clip’ and How to Facilitate the Activity at this link.
1. Nail cuticle remover & cleaner
2. Bubble wrap popping tool
3. Carve fine details into nail polish on finger and toenails and bad boyfriend’s car
4. lock picker
5. Graffiti on plastic scratch tool
6. Worm hook
7. Paper note / memo hanger
8. To make pixel holes in paper
9. Narrow crack dirt remover
10. Pixel Stamp
11. DVD drive opener
12. Aerial for radio
13. Aerial for small tv
14. Plastic hole maker
15. Scratch beneath a bandage or plaster of paris cast
16. Finger / toe splint
17. Ear rings
18. Make into alphabet letters
19. Make into numbers
20. Decorative string for hanging light ornaments
21. Necklace
22. bangle
23. Nappy clip
24. Nozzle unclogger
25. Water divining rod for idiots
26. Metal detector annoyance
27. Marshmallow sticks
28. Cheese picker
29. Mini skewers at a little people braai
30. Cherry stalks holders at a buffet
31. Eye stalks, cherry on top for decorative cakes
32. Porcupine quills on a papier mache sculpture
33. Punch holes through polystyrene
34. Animal whiskers on a cake
35. Heat up and use as hair curling tongs for dolls
36. Dredlock detangler for when you change your mind
37. Hair accessory for sputnik hairstyles
38. Hair accessory for buns
39. Clean a tiny gun
40. Clean your cats nails
41. Scratch annoying black dirt away on oven dishes
42. Scratch ex’s car, scratch can go on forever as scratching sharpens clip
43. Scrape little chips of paint off surfaces
44. Gradually fray the rope of your rock climbing enemy
45. Suspend sheet in trees to make a canopy
46. Hold a small creeping vine in place
47. Sausage skin popper
48. Make holes in baked potatoes
49. Advanced sushi sticks
50. Meat skewer
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Nice ideas
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What were your motivating factors for each of these uses? Is there a pattern?
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Thanks for your question Ronald! Categorise functions into groups – i.e what can you do with it as an etching tool? How ca it be used decoratively? etc…the more ‘groups’ or functions you can cover, the more you expand your range of solutions.
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bend into shape for a stencil
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Great idea!
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Biner straps
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Damn straight nigger
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Lol…I’m snow white but I’ll take that as a heads up pudding!
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Damn
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for popping the sim tray on an iphone
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How about opening SIM-cards on mobile phones…
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i like the one scratch ex’s car im about to do dat
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Lol…I hope you didn’t!
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helllll yes
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Both dont! Lol it would not be worth it. Rather embellish the lesson learnt on your memory forever!
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