How to Tell If Your Room Was Searched

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0:00 - billboard
0:21 - cold open
1:32 - jason offers a quest
3:16 - the timer starts, brian encounters the first trap
4:43 - brian encounters the second trap
6:19 - brian encounters the third trap
7:22 - time runs low
8:31 - discussing the traps not tripped
11:39 - brian safely explores the space
13:49 - brian discovers the hiding location
14:43 - roman ad
16:19 - cta

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[ModernRogue]

Congrats to the winners of last week’s Butterfly Bottle Opener giveaway: Michael James Duran, Mohammed Amir Kahn, Anthony Gadd, and Alex Gallego (we will contact you via email within the next two weeks).

[cvanceter]

You could purposely leave fingerprints in certain places, so that if someone went through your stuff and then cleaned it, you would notice.

[JamesGregory]

Tricks to see if someone’s searched your room.

1. Half toggle the light switch up. When someone comes in if they turn the light on, they will flip it all the way down when they turn it off leaving.

2. Place a Toothpick in the door jamb at a level of your choice, if it’s missing or put back at a different height you know the doors been opened.

3. Rotate your screwheads on light switches and power outlets to perfect X’s and +’s. If anyone removed the plate to install bugs and put the covers back on the screws will be out of line.

4. In that back of the breakfast at Tiffany’s picture frame the tabs that are holding the backing you should have all but one of them secured.

5. The coat hangers (with clothes hanging) in the closet could be arranged in a specific spaced pattern. So you know if someone checked the back of the closet.

6. A small piece of clear scotch tape folded over itself (so it’s not sticky.) placed under the right corner of a pillow on the bed or couch. If anyone moves the pillows, they will not set them back in the exact way where the tape was.

7. Use a BIC pen/ permanent marker to leave a desk drawer open an exact amount. Anyone searching a room will look in an unlocked drawer to see what’s in it. And when they are leaving if they don’t accidentally close it entirely (habit) they might leave it open a little. When you return Simply use the pen or marker that’s on the table to see if it’s still and exact fit/gap.

[linklink-_-]

If you’ve watched death note. The main character balanced a piece of pencil lead on his door hinge so if the door was opened the lead would snap.

[samottery]

Put clear tape with the adhesive side up on the floor, sticks to people's shoes, you know that someone has been there and can check people's shoes later.

[photoshopuserr]

i enjoy how the episodes how jason is just hiding everything from brian now so he's as confused as the audience

[random]

If you made sure the room was pitch black, you could leave a camera film cartage exposed so when the lights are turned on you could tell by the film reacting.

[firefly]

I seriously cannot emphasize enough how Brian, Jason, and everyone else involved with TMR are important to me, a dude in my 20s feeling myself get older RAPIDLY, as examples of people who didn't just lose all trace of being able to have fun when they turned 28.

[endlessoul]

Jason is well practiced in swooping into a room with a cape.

[stocktonjoans]

i really hope we get the opposite episode to this where we're shown ways to toss a room without leaving a trace, on a totally unrelated note, carrying a small pocket sized first aid kit means you will always have a set of latex gloves on you . . . so you don't spread any germs while administering first aid, obviously, i can't think of any other uses for them ;)

[imstupid]

"I've read 1984! I know the thing with the hair!"
*Falls for the hair trick*

[DanteCorwyn]

Wait, there's going to be a Dungeons and Dragons episode? Don't tease us like that Jason!

[TheRealAlpha]

I half expected the book to be attached to the back of the door, I've always been a big fan of placing something in a door like a small piece of paper to show when something has been opened, or using things in the environment like a water bottle, USB cable, or headphone wire stretched across something that would be hard to place back the same way or just be missed because it appears to be just the state of the item in the room normally. I also tend to make patterns only I would recognize, maybe with coins, it looks random to anyone else, but makes sense to me.

[parasite]

One of the more obvious methods for identifying if a room has been searched in to simply put a small wooden peg inbetween the main door and the doorjam, low enough that it wont cause too much of a sound, and small enough that it may go un-noticed.
A good example of this can be seen in the 2011 movie adaptation of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy.

[oblivionfade]

protip: put a bomb in the room. If it explodes and it kills you when you come back, it means no one's been there.

[Magnum_Dong]

I think putting small, easy to miss seals on things is a great strategy cause they will be exceptionally hard to fix, unlike the books, or the powder since a spy might have some anyways. But more importantly, the more traps, the merrier, If you have to go through like 20 different traps for each red herring, eventually you'll get tired, feel rushed, and slip up somewhere.

[actuallyasriel]

I love that the theme of The Modern Rogue this year has just been Jason flying further and further off the handle

[fakermakerprops]

Once again bring back
CAUSE IMMA MODERN

[trevor]

12:10 my tip is to duct tape a claymore to a roomba and call it a boomba.

[ChrisKing]

Put a little wax on a hinge. It will crack when the hinge moves.