The Gluey Shampooey Prank

This prank is simple and straightforward, but you need to be careful. Any prank involving superglue can backfire spectacularly if you stick yourself to something. Instead of playing a trick on someone else, you're the one who looks silly when you need help getting your hands free!

Just glue the lid of a shampoo container shut. Glue the top part of the lid (the part that snaps open and closed), not the bottom part (where it meets the bottle) -- you don't want to get any glue in the shampoo, which would be dangerous, and you want to make sure you can get the lid on and off so that people can still use the shampoo after your surprise.

This is another prank that requires patience. Don't tell people you think their hair looks dirty (which sounds suspicious) or ask if everything went okay in the shower (which sounds very suspicious!) Just keep quiet, and if it works you'll be sure to hear about it!

This Prank is the Pits!

Deodorant sticks are important, because without them everyone stinks. Everyone.

Which means this prank can work on everyone!

Wait until someone's used up an inch or two of their deodorant stick, then screw it back down so there's an empty space at the top of the container. Then use some cream cheese of the same color to refill it (take care to level off the top so it looks good or this won't work!) then screw it back out a bit.

The next person to use their deodorant will get a cheesy surprise ... in their pits!

The Donkey Call

Of all the prank phone calls in the world, the "Donkey Call" is, without a doubt, the easiest.

Here's how you pull the Donkey Call: you simply phone a friend, shout "DONKEY!", and hang up. It's fast, it's efficient, and there's simply no way to deal with that. Imagine your friend on the other end. What donkey? Why a donkey? Was that a mule-hunter calling people at random, hoping to find one? It's a moment of strangeness and humor in an otherwise normal day.

For the Donkey Call to work correctly, they have to be expecting the joke. So tell a friend about the idea behind the Donkey Call, then give them a steely glare and say, "And I'm going to Donkey Call you ...

The Turbo Google Prank

A big part of pranking is promising the impossible, an impossible so sweet that some people just can't resist being tricked. Imagine if you could improve Google!

NO ONE can resist trying new Google options, and Turbo Google is an Internet user's dream! They'll try to click on the new search bar so hard they might break their mouse -- only to find you tricked them. The "Turbo Google" bar doesn't do anything at all, because it's fake.

Even better, it's easy to set up. Simply download the correct Turbo Google background for your friend's computer below, and use the new "Change background image" (in the bottom-left corner of the Google page) to upload a background!

Download the Turbo Google background (1024 pixels wide)
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Download the Turbo Google background (1600 pixels wide)
Download the Turbo Google background (1680 pixels wide)

Attack of the Tiny Pigs!

Sometimes stunts don't have to be spectacular, simply strange -- a single odd moment which will give your friends a smile when they weren't expecting it. You can give a friend an unusual scavenger hunt by buying a bunch of tiny plastic pigs...

...or tiny soldiers, tiny trucks, or tiny babies, then hiding them all around their house. You can usually find these tiny toys at party supply stores, or online.

Put the tiny toys in strange places they wouldn't expect: on top of cupboards, in the back of the freezer, hiding behind their computer keyboard. The key is to take your time -- squirrel (pig?) them away in unusual places and don't get impatient.

For the most fun, there are a few things you must remember:
- DO NOT pull this prank on a family with pets or a small baby. You know what's not funny? A choking pet.
- Don't use too many! If you're surprised by a tiny pig once a month it's pretty funny. Being bugged by a pig every day is just annoying -- unless it's bacon.
- Don't put them anywhere they could hurt people. That means not putting them inside shoes (it hurts even to step on a LEGO!) or anywhere in the kitchen.

Happy pigging!

FREE PRANK: Ridiculously Long Startup Sound

Patience is a virtue: it makes it easier to wait for birthdays, it helps you relax when other people are panicking, and it makes you harder to prank! The easiest time to trick someone is when they're impatient, and no one waits as hard as when they want to get onto the internet.

A great trick is to make them wait even longer, by replacing the startup sound on a Windows PC with a super-long one (we've got one you can download free!) Now, instead of the sigh of a depressed orchestra, they'll have to wait for four and a half minutes for the file to play all the way through.

To change the sound:
- Download the sound here
- Click Start Menu > Control Panel
- Click on "Sounds and Audio Devices"
- Click on "Sounds"
- Scroll down to "Start Windows"
- Click "Browse," then select the new sound!

What if your friend owns a Mac? Well, then we're afraid they've beaten you -- the startup sound is built into Mac computers, and if you could change it, you'd probably be able to build a robot to trick them instead!

Sticky Tricky

The best pranks are the most surprising ones. Just shouting "Boo" at someone isn't original -- they've seen it before, and you're not a ghost. It's more surprising when simple things they take for granted suddenly turn on them ... and there's nothing simpler than a door handle!

No one expects this to play a joke. Or do anything. Except maybe open a door.

Simply wrap some double-sided sticky tape under the handle, and the next person to use it gets an unexpected feeling! Make sure people can't see it, or they'll just be asking, "Is the door handle broken? And who fixed it so badly?" You don't need very much, just enough to give the person who opens the door a weird feeling.

Don't do this to bathroom doors -- sometimes people are going there in a hurry. You don't want this prank to result in your grandmother having an "accident." Then this prank would get sticky indeed.

Flock O' Flamingos

This is a big prank, so you'll want to save it for a special occasion (and get some friends to help). You'll need a lot of something simple and silly that goes in the garden, like garden gnomes, or those pink plastic flamingos. Something that makes a serious place look silly.

Make sure they're cheap! You can find things like this in the Dollar Store, or stores like Big Lots that sometimes buy huge quantities of wacky items.

The next part is important: pick a good time to set it up! Suddenly seeing a lot of flamingos is fun, but seeing a squad of people putting them out can be awkward.

"Excuse me, what are you doing?"

"Er, we're delivering the flamingos."

Very embarrassing.

The best time is early in the morning, so you'll have to organize permission and help, but it will be well worth it when they see their garden or school lawn decorated with hundreds of unexpected visitors!

Google Gravity!

We all know that Google's great -- in fact, many people set Google as their homepage, which means you can play a really easy prank: making it look like Google is melting off the screen.

When they're not around, load up the Google Gravity page on their browser -- you can either leave it for them to find it, or set it as their homepage. Make sure you keep the mouse off the page, up over the menubar, or you'll be the one pranked! (Don't worry if that happens -- just reload the page and the prank will restart.)

When they try to use their computer, the site will collapse! Try it yourself by clicking here.

You Woke Up WHERE?!

If you know anyone who's hard to wake up -- who's always late for school, or who's still in bed when you call them on the weekend -- this is the perfect prank: make them wake up somewhere different than where they went to sleep.

Get a friend or two to help you -- not only will you need them, but this prank is more fun with more people. Sneak into the person's room when they're asleep, and carefully move their bed to a different part of the room. It doesn't have to be far, just a different place (or even a different angle) than they normally wake up -- when they do, they won't know what's happened and for a few sleepy seconds will be completely confused!

Tip #1: Make sure to plan where you're moving the bed before you do it -- you don't want to break anything or drop them by tripping over toys on the floor.

Tip #2: Everyone may want to stuff socks in their mouth, because you'll be laughing so hard while you're moving the bed that you might wake them up.