21 Easy, Hilarious April Fools' Pranks
Ready for the best April Fools' Day ever? Show off your sleuthing style with these techie, geeky ideas that'll confuse the heck out of your co-workers, friends, significant others, parents — you name it. And if this year is anything like years before, there will be tons of pranks on the web that you can send, too.
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Cover the mouse laser with a Post-It.
Please oh please re-create this incredible spider phone prank.
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Try one of these brilliant autocorrect pranks, like creating a shortcut on your mom's phone so every time she types "dirty clothes," it says "acid."
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Nicolas Cage-ify the photocopy machine.
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Use a Chrome extension that turns webpages upside down.
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Pull that infamous cat facts prank on someone with this Cat Facts app.
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. . . Or the Cornify Chrome extension that's all about the unicorn rainbows.
Hide creepy Lego figurines throughout someone's place.
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Hack the printer to say something funny.
Glue googly eyes on the mouse.
Drizzle onions in caramel sauce.
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Get friends to accidentally send you a selfie with this hilarious picture trick.
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Alphabetize a keyboard.
. . . Or rearrange the letters to leave messages like "You can't ge7 m3."
Block their desk with a bunch of balloons.
Change the WiFi name to something creepy.
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Install the blue screen of death screensaver.
Grow a garden in your co-worker's keyboard.
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Cover a keyboard with weird ransom-note decals.
Change the look of your friend's app icons so that she gets superconfused. Here's how.
Start early enough and you can make a video like this one that captures selfie expressions on video instead of photos.
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