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** In ''[[Discworld/The Fifth Elephant|The Fifth Elephant]]'', Vimes tries to blast open a secret compartment with a siege weapon. While struggling to aim it, he sets off the opening mechanism. He tries to pretend that that [[I Meant to Do That|was his plan all along]].
** [[Invoked Trope|Invoked]] (with little success) in ''[[Discworld/The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents|The Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents]]'': Malicia insists that the best way to find secret passages is to give up after searching, then lean casually against something and accidentally trip the hidden switch. They do find a secret passage, but only by noticing the cleverly hidden switch.
* ''[[Good Omens]]'': A variation was subverted in Pratchett and Gaiman's novel. Among the search techniques the heroine attempts in trying to find her lost book of prophecies is giving up theatrically and letting her gaze fall organically on a patch of
* Sort of in ''[[The Thrawn Trilogy]]''. Leia and others, looking for the Delta Source that is reporting things to Thrawn, rest for a bit in the room where most of the spying happens, and then Leia looks at a droid tending one of the decorative color-changing trees and notices the red ripples forming and spreading each time the droid clicks
Similarly, in the [[X Wing Series]] Corran Horn, while infiltrating on Coruscant, goes walking without paying attention to where he's going because he's thinking. Yes, he does this on a hostile planet. But the Force was with him, since not only did he ''not'' get jumped while [[Contemplate Our Navels|contemplating his past]], but he ended up outside of a [[Wretched Hive]] where an enemy was having a drink, and in the following pages he ends up finding some friends he hadn't seen for a while.
* Happens to Hamlet in [[Tom Holt]]'s ''My Hero'', during a sequence that's ''supposed'' to be demonstrating that the [[Theory of Narrative Causality]] no longer applies but keeps getting undermined by the fact that (this being a Tom Holt novel) the [[Rule of Funny]] is still in full effect.
* Averted in Darren Shan's ''Demonata'' series in ''Lord Loss''. Grubbs seems like the kind of impulsive young kid to stop searching early and accidentally trip the switch, but he somehow has the patience to try every single wine bottle in his uncle's cellar until he finds the one that's a hidden switch. He goes through dozens of bottles.
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* ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' had a list of options to search a secret wall, such as examining it, poking it, shoulder barging it etc. After a while it came up with the option "rest"... which led you to lean back on the wall, and open the door. Justified in that this was in the upside-down/backwards castle, so the the best way to get through the wall was to apply the smallest amount of force possible.
** A similliar event happens in [[Breath of Fire 3]] when the gang of [[Loveable Rogue
* Colette from ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' is [[Dojikko|incredibly clumsy]], but when she trips she tends to fall on the exact thing she's looking for.
* In a lot of [[Point and Click]] games, randomly clicking on everything is a good way to find things.
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