Practical joke ideas

Need practical joke ideas? Have fun with these harmless practical jokes you can play on your unsuspecting victims!

Keep in mind that although it can be a lot of fun to pull a prank on someone some will just not appreciate your sense of humor. You may just upset someone enough to be in big, big trouble ... Be warned!

If you life in an area where it gets really cold in the wintertime: take your victim’s mattress outside, soak it in water and leave it until it is frozen solid.

When you are sure it is frozen, replace the mattress on your victim’s bed, and make the bed up to look like before. The shocked look on their face when they go to bed will be priceless.

Warning: you will most likely ruin the mattress - be prepared to replace it!

For this practical joke idea to work, you will need an empty water jug that is non-see through. When you are having dinner, keep the empty water jug near you on the table. When someone asks for the water to be passed on, pretend (when lifting the jug) that it is very heavy and full of water.

Place it close to your victim. A bit later on – ask your victim for water. He/she will lift the jug with what he/she considers to be appropriate amount of strength to lift a heavy jug full of water. This will cause the empty jug to jolt into the air and a great surprise for your victim.

If you can somehow film this – it will be a precious keepsake!

Before your victim takes a shower, take the showerhead off and place a life-safer (candy) in it. Your victim will not notice anything while taking their shower, but will be sticky when trying to dry of with a towel.

The usual reaction is to get back into the shower to rinse off, and then drying with another towel – just to deal with the same stickiness … The life safer will have dissolved after a couple of showers!

For this prank you need access to your victim’s house. When your victim is away, go into their house and rearrange the furniture. You can do this on a small scale (swapping the contents of drawers) or do a full scale rearrangement of their whole home.

Coming home to find your dining room in your bedroom and the kitchen in the lounge can really freak people out! Doing a small swap around can be more harmless and will have them puzzling over it for a long time.

Warning: Some people will freak out and call the police. Your innocent prank can get you into a lot of trouble!

You will need a few of your strongest friends for this practical joke idea. Go to where your victim’s car is parked in the street. With your friends help switch the car around (lift the car and move it around so that it is now parked back to front)

This is a harmless prank since your victim will still be able to get out of the parking, but it will leave him puzzling over this and a little freaked out as well.

Warning: this will not work on a car with a sensitive alarm system, or with somebody that freaks out very easily that will call the police on you!

For this practical joke idea you need a victim that is a bit homophobic. Get an envelope that is official looking and use a font on it that is formal, small, to the point and look like the real deal. Put your victim’s postal address on the front and return-address on the back along the lines of “Gay & Lesbian Society” (include an address that looks real)

Now … on good quality paper, print a letter along these lines:

Dear Mr. John Smithd

It is a pleasure to inform you that we have received your membership fee for the amount of $55 that will entitle you to gold membership status. We would like to welcome you to the Atlanta Gay and Lesbian Rights Association.

We appreciate your support and encourage all our new members to participate in all our association activities. To personally welcome you into our elite gold membership group we will like to invite you to a small function at …… that will be held in your honor. We are looking forward to seeing you there.

If you have any questions, please call our office at 123-555-555.

Truly Yours,

Tom Piper
President

Use a real phone number where you have a co-conspirator ready to play along with the prank. When your victim phone to cancel his membership, make it close to impossible for him to withdraw from this elitist club. Tell him that the new membership list has already been printed and will be published in the local newspaper. Make him sweat.

This practical joke idea can be adjusted to suit any of your victims. Just figure out what your friend feels strong (and uncomfortable) about – it can be certain types of music he dislikes, poetry he hates, sport-associated issues, faith-based, food related – there is no limits to your imagination!