How to Play Harmless Prank

There’s nothing more fun than pranking your friends, siblings or roommates. You can prank your friends by taping their cars or playing with their hand sanitizer. Alternatively, you can invite the victim to eat Oreo cookies with toothpaste to create a culinary nightmare. If you want to prank a sibling or roommate, stick an insect picture on the inside of a lampshade or sprinkle salt on their brush head.

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Create your own prank

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Find someone to prank. Choose a relative or acquaintance with a similar sense of humor, such as a parent, teacher, sibling, or best friend. Avoid playing pranks on people you don’t know. They may misinterpret the joke and think you are bullying them. Other subjects to avoid include:

Parents are tired and confused
New student at school
Someone often disagrees with me

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Brainstorm to generate ideas. Find a pen and paper. Choose a comfortable, quiet place to sit and think. ^{[1] X Research Sources} Next, jot down the ideas that come to mind. Don’t worry about whether the idea is good or bad. Instead, focus on jotting down as many ideas as possible.

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Eliminate any malicious or malicious ideas. Pranks should not cause harm or danger to others. ^{[2] X Research Source} because then it’s no longer a “harmless” prank. Some examples of joking situations that cause danger or injury include:

Destroying someone else’s valuable property
Use sharp objects or fire to play pranks
Threatening someone makes them angry
Setting traps puts them at risk of suffocation or shortness of breath

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Choose the best idea. The most amazing prank will be fun, harmless and realistic. Also, the joke should be interesting enough to surprise, but not so shocking as to be suspicious. ^{[3] X Research Sources} Select ideas:

Play pranks on subjects in their safe zone so as not to raise suspicion
No need to prepare too much
Bring joy to pranksters and “victims”.

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Plan implementation. After you’ve come up with the perfect joke, it’s time to plan. Carefully outline the outline of the plan on paper. Re-read the plan a few times, visualizing it as you read it. This helps detect fatal flaws in the plan. For example:

If you need a lot of balloons to execute your plan, make sure you have time to buy balloons.
If your friends aren’t feeling well, they may take time off from work or school and the prank scheme will go bankrupt.
If the prank requires water and it’s cold that day, the water may freeze.

Play pranks on friends

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Place a sign that says “voice control” next to something. This prank will be very successful if your friends are also your colleagues. Bring an electric toaster or other common appliance to work and place it in the break room. Next, create a small sign that says this innovative oven has voice control. All that’s left is to spend the day laughing at people screaming into electric toasters.

If you want to encourage friends to use the oven, put a loaf of bread next to it and tell everyone to serve themselves.
Other small items include a coffee maker, an electric stove, and a capsule coffee maker.

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Seal your friends’ cars with paper. Go to the stationery store and buy as many stickers as you can. Then, apply a layer of paper to the car, including the windows. The person being pranked by you will have to peel hundreds of pieces of paper before getting in the car. ^{[4] X Research Sources}

Use colorful stickers to diversify your decor. Example: Use green, white and brown stickers to make the car look like the Shrek monster.
The sticker usually sticks to the car that has just been washed.

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Swap their hand sanitizer for lube. This prank is perfect for someone who always carries a bottle of hand sanitizer in their purse or on their desk. First, buy a clear bottle of lube at the drugstore or grocery store, then pour away the hand sanitizer and refill their jar with lube. When using the solution to wash their hands, they will get sticky grease.

Remember to keep the hand sanitizer in another cup or buy a new bottle for the victim before doing this prank. Maybe they will be angry if they have to buy more hand sanitizer.

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Send something funny in the mail. Many companies offer prank delivery services. You can send your friends sparkly bombs, eggplants, insects, and more. Search the internet to choose the service that best suits your purposes. ^{[5] X Research Sources}

If possible, you should send the package to work or school to see the object open the “gift”.

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Post an ad looking for someone with a Chewbacca-like roar. Design a flyer promoting a roaring competition like Chewbacca and print your friends’ phone numbers below. Next, spread the flyers around the neighborhood. If lucky, the victim will have to receive dozens of voicemails from contestants with a roar similar to Chewbacca. ^{[6] X Research Sources}

Avoid using your friend’s work phone number in this prank. Voicemail can be overloaded and they will miss an important call.

Using food to prank someone

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Make “candy apples”. First, you’ll make a batch of the traditional candy apple toppings. Next, peel a few medium-sized onions, then stick wooden skewers into each onion to make a handle. Dip each tuber into the candy coating and place them on top of wax paper to dry. The onion will look like a delicious candy apple.

Once it’s dry, you can invite your friends to eat “candy apple” naturally and watch their reaction when biting an onion.
Remember not to treat people who are allergic to onions this dish.

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Disgusting cheese “orange juice” concoction. Bought a box of cheese pasta and a small bottle of orange juice. Drain or pour the orange juice into another cup, then pour the cheese powder from the cheese macaroni box into the empty bottle. Add more water to the bottle and screw the cap back on. Shake the bottle well until there are no lumps of cheese left in the liquid mixture. ^{[7] X Research Sources}

When the bottle is finished, invite your friends to drink and watch them throw up.
You should cool the bottle before using. A bottle of warm orange juice can make friends suspicious.

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Make an Oreo with toothpaste. Bought a box of Oreo cookies and a tube of toothpaste. Next, carefully separate the two pieces of cake and scrape off the frosting. Squeeze some toothpaste onto a piece of cake and then squeeze the two pieces back together. When eating the cake, your friends will be surprised by the horrible taste of mint. ^{[8] X Research Sources}

Put mint crackers on a plate and then invite your friends to eat and watch them throw up.
For a skeptical friend, just place a plate of Oreo cookies with toothpaste nearby to lure them in. You may not get to see them eat, but you will hear about them later.

Indoor prank

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Sprinkle salt on the toothbrush. Sprinkle salt on the bristles of your roommate or sibling. The next time they brush their teeth, they will think the tube of cream tastes salty and disgusting.

Use sea salt or fine grained salt. Otherwise, they may spot a grain of salt on the brush head and be suspicious.

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Release “insects” into the lampshade. This prank is quite fun for people who are afraid of big insects. First, you will print a picture of a large cockroach or other hairy insect. Next, cut and paste the shape onto the inside of the lampshade. When your roommate or sibling turns on the light, they will see the shadows of the large hideous insects and believe that the insect is inside the lampshade.

Search online for hairy insect photos to print.
Use clear tape to stick the insect pattern on the lampshade.

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Craft a useless bar of soap. Look for clear nail polish bottles and dry soap bars. Apply a few coats of clear nail polish on the bar of soap and wait for it to dry. Next, you will place the bar of soap in the shower or next to the sink. When your siblings or roommates use soap, they will find that the soap doesn’t produce any lather.

Apply at least four layers of clear nail polish. The more layers you scan, the more effective the prank will be.

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Cover the bed with cling film. Buy a few boxes of cling film at your local grocery store. Next, wrap your sibling or roommate’s bed tightly by wrapping multiple layers around the entire bed frame. Before going to bed, they will have to spend a few minutes struggling to remove the covering. ^{[9] X Research Source}

Try to use several long pieces of wrapper instead of many small pieces. This will make it more difficult for the victim to remove the paper.
You can wrap each pillow and blanket separately, or wrap everything tightly in an airtight package.

Advice

Watch out for your friends to retaliate.
Make sure others don’t become unwitting victims; otherwise the subject will know that you have intended to prank them.
Choose the “victim” carefully. If your friends don’t have a sense of humour, you should play pranks on others.
You can attach a coin to the top of the faucet (don’t seal it!) and the water will splash when the victim opens the faucet.
Remember, a great prank is one that makes both of you laugh. Evil pranks can be taken as real and hurt others.

Warning

Choose the right time frame to prank your friends. If they’re stressed or upset, they probably won’t respond to the joke.

Steps