Active Practical Jokes & Pranks Posts
How To: The World's Creepiest McDonald's Drive-Thru Prank Ever (Chucky Wants His Big Mac!)
Who doesn't love a good prank? Taking advantage of unwilling and gullible bystanders is an obvious recipe for success—and some hilarious amusement.
How To: Make a needle float in midair using magnets
You can make a needle hover in midair! Get a few magnets, and see how far away you can make the needle float. Thread your needles with just the right length of string to make needles hover around your magnet.
News: This DIY Arduino Device Rickrolls Anyone Who Walks Near It
Even though it seems like forever, the phenomenon of "rickrolling" has only been around since 2007. It was started as an inside joke by a 19-year-old who just wanted to troll his buddies, but ended up becoming one of the Internet's most popular memes with over 66 million views (as of this writing).
How To: Make Your Own Creepy 'Puta Putin' to Guard Your Stuff (Or Scare Your Roommate)
Earlier this week, we learned that you can get people to put more money in a tip jar simply by drawing eyes on it. But what if you want to keep them away from something? Eyes can do that, too, especially when they're Putin's.
How To: Do a trick with 3 matchbooks
Need a new prank to play? Wait no more! In this video from Scam School, you'll learn how to do a simple trick with 3 matchbooks. You'll fool your mark into thinking you have magic psychic and weighing abilities. Just watch and follow the steps, and you could be on your way to scoring free drinks!
How To: Pull the bloody toothbrush prank with food coloring on a roommate
Brushing your teeth is pretty mundane. Why not enliven the experience for a friend or enemy by pranking them into thinking that their mouth is gushing blood? This video will teach you how to use food coloring and an oven to set up the Bloody Toothbrush Prank. All you do is cook the food coloring into it's powdered essence, apply the powder sneakily your victim's toothbrush, and wait until they brush.
How To: Make someone think you broke a glass
This how-to video will teach you how you can create a sound effect much like that of breaking glass. You can make your unsuspecting victim think that you broke a glass or that you broke something made of glass with this handy instructional video. This trick uses a coffee mug, plastic wrap, and a key. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Do a Diet Coke and Mentos bomb explosion prank
The Diet Coke and Mentos Explosion prank is one of those classic pranks that everyone should experience at some point. When combined the Diet Cola and Mentos become volatile, basting your victim in stickiness. Watch this video to learn how to make a Diet Coke and Mentos bomb, a simple, yet devious exploding prank. Next up: how to con your victim into cleaning up the mess. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Make a great prank exploding cigarette
Some one you know smoke? And want to give them a scare? In this video you learn how to make the tip of a cigarette explode using toy gun caps. You can't hurt anyone with this prank, and it is really easy to do. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Pull 8 great household pranks
Because life's just not fun unless someone is getting pranked. Whether you need to pull these pranks out for a party or to get back at your younger brother for stealing that last piece of fried chicken, you'll learn a whopping list of 8 different pranks in this video.
How To: Prevent airplane seats from reclining
There just isn't enough space on airplanes for any one, even those on the shorter end of the spectrum. Top flight nightmares are usually being seated next to a screaming child, a person of large girth, or behind that jerk who reclines their seat for the entire flight. Most people aren't going to respond well to even polite request for courtesy, so that's when a little chair subterfuge comes in handy. Come prepared with a plastic zip tie and this simple trick. Watch this pranking tutorial and ...
How To: Set up the ultimate ketchup prank
You must have a certain attitude to appreciate practical jokes and pranks. Your friends (or targets) may not appreciate pranks as much as you, especially messy ones. The messy pranks are the ones that are less likely to provide a laugh from your victims, at least not right away. This ketchup prank is one of those.
How To: Set up the water balloon and messy cup prank
Pranks that involve liquid are always funny. Unexpected liquid splashing or spilling all over someone is always a laugh riot, unless it's gasoline. This cup prank involves a cup (obviously), straw, needle, lid, and… water balloon. Watch this video to see how the prank works.
How To: Pull the styrofoam ice-bottom cup prank
Imagine… your friend is drinking an ice-cold soda out of his/her styrofaom cup, and everything's fine, until… it's starts leaking everywhere! It could be utterly hilarious, or disastrously evil, depending on who your target is.
How To: Pull off a great prank with a styrofoam cup and a straw
This prank is simple, creative, easy to set up, messy and embarrassing. Five of the first things that we at Wonderhowto look for in a prank. All you need are some basic household materials:
How To: Pull an awesome prank by booby-trapping a pizza box
Everyone is drawn to a box of pizza- the possibility of fresh, hot, cheesy goodness is simply too great to be ignored. So if you are looking to pull a prank on someone, the pizza box is the perfect lure.
News: Johnny Knoxville Delivers Shock to the Nuts Live on Jimmy Fallon
Congrats to WonderHowTo Jackass 3D prank contest winner Grayson Robison! His winning idea: Connect Knoxville to a real life Operation game with shocking devices. Every time a player screws up and the buzzer goes off, the "patient" gets a burning shock to the correlating body part.
Friday Fresh: Prank Your Friends Into Licking Kangaroo Gonads & More
Every day of the week, WonderHowTo curators are hard at work, scouring the web for the greatest and most inspiring how-to videos. Every Friday, we'll highlight our favorite finds.
News: Send secret messages with hard-boiled eggs
This may look like a regular, innocent egg… What you are about to see is eggs-actly what makes this tutorial so special!
How To: Sabotage Someone's Takeout Lunch with a Messy Prank
There's never a bad time to pull a prank on someone, right? Well, how about you consider setting up this prank during lunchtime? Next time you see a co-worker leave his/her takeout food unattended, that's when you'll strike. Follow the simple steps below and you'll be known as the master prankster at work. Tools and Materials Needed
How To: Ruin Someone's Salad (Prank Their Favorite Bottle of Dressing)
Do you have a friend who's a vegetarian? Well, this prank is perfect for them. It's pretty simple, where the objective is to tamper with their favorite bottle of salad dressing, and no... it's not the loosened cap prank, but it does have a similar result. You Will Need:
News: The Prank to Avenge All Who Have Dealt With an Evil Customer Service Operator
If you've ever had to call a large communications company with a customer service issue, you've most likely experienced the hopelessly not-at-all helpful operator from hell. Thanks to a program on VRT Belgium, you can now experience a small sense of vengeance for tortured customers everywhere.
How To: Ruin Your Roommate's Breakfast Oats
The idea is to trick your roommate into opening a can of oatmeal that will be booby-trapped. The outcome will be hilarious, considering your roommate doesn't punch you in the face.
How To: Pull a cream cheese arm pits deodorant prank
For some reason most women favor white creamy deodorants. This is a disadvantage for women with prank-happy roommates and significant others who have seen this video. It will teach you how to pull the cream cheese pits prank by replacing someone's deodorant with cream cheese.
How To: Prank Your Co-Workers With a Nasty Surprise Easter Egg
Easter isn't the typical occasion for pranking your friends, co-workers, or boss (if you dare). But this Easter egg-inspired prank by Redditor cheesewing is pretty ingenious, and handing out chocolate eggs any other day of the year might raise some suspicion.
How To: Turn a mechanical pencil into a staple gun
All you need is a regular mechanical pencil and a bunch of staples. Then follow this short tutorial and learn how to turn your basic pencil into a staple-shooting gun. Make sure the pencil you choose can easily have the cap screwed off.
How To: Rig a bathroom prank by running the toilet water tube to the sink
Toilets are some of the best prank aides, and this video will teach you a novel way to use them. All you do is connect the hose that fills the tank with water to another longer hose, then run it to under the sink and attach it in a position to spray outward. Then wait for your victim to flush.
How To: Use blue food coloring and martini mix to pull a blue mouth martini prank
Blue martini mix can make any party more festive and ravey, but can also be used for this great prank. Watch the video for a guide to using food coloring and blue martini mix to dye the mouths of martini drinkers blue for hours. Great fun.
How To: Pull a chocolate soap prank
Many modern American women are fixated on cutely-shaped and fun-smelling soaps. Take advantage of that fixation by watching this video and then using a make-your-own-soap kit to make soaps that look exactly like chocolates. Then trick someone into taking a bite. Hilarious.
How To: Make prank Wasabi Guacamole
Wasabi and Guacamole are two of the best condiments on Earth, and could even be great combined. But not in these proportions. This video will show you how to pull an awesome prank on someone with only three tubes of Wasabi and some Guacamole.
How To: Pull an Icy-Hot body wash shower prank
Icy-Hot has relieved and caused intense pain for decades, and this is one of the best Icy-Hot pranks we've ever seen. All you need is a victim who uses body wash regularly, some Icy-Hot, and a desire to cause someone intense but not long-term harmful pain.
How To: Pull a bleach blonde shampoo prank
Girls around the world bemoan their boyfriends constantly stealing their shampoo when they run out, and now it's time for payback. This video demonstrates a hair bleach and shampoo prank that will devastate dark-haired shampoo-stealers.
News: Russian Pranksters "Dick" Bridge
A radical art group of Russian political pranksters, who go by the name of Voina, have delivered a giant "Up Yours!" to the Russian government... in the form of a 213-foot-tall penis.
How To: Set up a booby trap in a plain office stapler
For this tutorial, you will need the stapler you intend to booby trap and then a few paper party snaps. Open the stapler and put one or two party snaps inside. Then just sit back and wait for someone to come by and use the stapler!
How To: Make a timed Mentos and Diet Coke bomb with minty strips
It's been done before, but this Mentos and Diet Coke prank never gets old! Really— who knew those Mentos fresh mints and some acidic Diet Coke could create such an explosion? Astonishing.
News: Meanwhile, At the Eiffel Tower... Photoshop or Real?
Some prankster... ahem, erected... a giant penis crop circle at the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, this past Friday. My first thought? Photoshop. BUT, according to French journalist Aude Baron the... ahem, erection... is real:
How To: Embed floss into your neck with this prank
You can scare the hell out of your friends with the neat trick, or you can use it in your next horror-filled independent movie, to scare the hell out of your viewers. Watch this prank video tutorial to learn how to embed floss into your neck.
How To: Rig up a TV remote that will turn off the TV when someone sits on the couch
Now here's a prank for the more sophisticated and technologically knowledgeable among you. This video will teach you how to rig up a TV remote and a simple DIY pressure sensor to a couch in such a way that whenever someone sits on it, it will turn the TV on or off depending on what it was before. It's really not that hard, hilarious, and a great way to learn about electronics while you prank you friends.
News: Two Scientists Prank (Err, Demolish) Another Scientist. Faux-to?
Oh my God. So awesome. 0:41. How they did it:
How To: Be a successful street performer with Brian Brushwood
Street performers don't get a lot of respect from the establishment, it is a great way to hone your skills at magic and other performing arts. This video will give you tips on working a crowd and other aspects of street performing, as well as teaching you a puzzle you can use in your act.