If your office is anything like CityLab’s, there’s always a bottle of wine stashed in someone’s desk. Office booze has a long tradition in journalism: Toasts to award-winning or retiring colleagues, schmoozy happy hours, any given Friday around 5 p.m.

But what if the worst happens? What if there is no corkscrew to be found? Who will save the day with MacGyver-esque improvisation? Thanks to the exhaustive research of CityLab Labs, it could be you.

We assembled five items commonly found around the office (or its bicycle garage) and put them to the test. Peruse our scientific guide and consider your options the next time you and your officemates are caught sober, thirsty, and unprepared.

Here are 5 useful office tools to use when the corkscrew goes missing.