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“It’s just a prank, bro!”

If you hear this, the prank went too far.

But you know what won’t go too far? AskReddit. I mean, they can, they are very capable, but not this time around as folks online started asking for pranks that wouldn’t be too elaborate or expensive, yet still funny and harmless for the receiving party, usually a family member, a friend, or a significant other.

And folks delivered, across two whole threads here and here with everything from Chrome extensions to putting up signs to not even pulling a prank at all, just to watch chaos ensue.

Whatever the case, there’s tons of suggestions and you’re more than welcome to partake in April Fools’ this year by scrolling through our curated list below and pulling a prank or two on unsuspecting (or suspecting, some people follow calendars, you know) folks at home, the office, school, or the comment section below!

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#1

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online I did this one last year. I work at a restaurant. We have these spray bottles with a light pink solution we use to clean tables and such. I went and grabbed a brand new one and filled it with watered down pink lemonade.

I would be cleaning near my co workers , while chatting with them and nonchalantly unscrew the top spray/ trigger piece and just started downing it like I was dying of thirst.

The look of horror on some of their faces was priceless.

tharkus_ , Arria Belli Report

#2

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Bring a box of creme-filled donuts to work. Regular creme-filled donuts. Put a note on the box that says "Happy April 1!" Watch everyone get paranoid about what you didn't actually do to the donuts.

KillerEggplant , Ernesto Andrade Report

#3

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Here's one my 5 year old daughter pulled on me:

For a few days leading up to the 1st, she was talking about how her and mommy were going to bake me brownies. Totally hyped it up.

I should have seen it coming, but on April Fool's Day, she brings me a plate with a bunch of brown construction paper cut out letter E's.

She made me brown E's.

N8theGr8 , puuikibeach Report

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#4

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online There are 4 doors to our building and my co-worker put a sign on each one that says "Door broken use other door" with an arrow pointing left.

ProudTurtle , Taz Report

#5

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online piece of opaque tape over the lazer on everyones mouse. IT was pretty angry, I need to take that one to the grave with me.

[deleted] , Erin Kohlenberg Report

#6

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online I'm a female kindergarten teacher. I wore a mustache all day long and pretended it wasn't there...even with the parents. Everyone got a kick out of it except for one student who cried because I "looked scary."

HotTamalesYum , Joe Goldberg Report

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Shyla Clay
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I worked at a daycare. I had really long hair. I cut it on impulse one night. The next day, three year old Michael refused to come into the room, because he didn't know that strange teacher he'd known his entire life.

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#7

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Here's what I've got planned: Got the IT guy to give me a broken keyboard. I'm going to take a bunch of chia seeds, plaster them underneath the keys, spend a few days watering it, and then switch it for my coworker's keyboard that morning.

pukkileroux , generalising Report

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#8

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online If they use Google Chrome, install the extension "nCage It". It changes EVERY image (including google logo, thumbnails, etc.) into randomly generated pics/gifs of Nicholas Cage.

The best part? There is an option to hide the extension from the task bar. They would actually have to go into their internet options and find it under the "extensions" tab just to turn it off. It's great.

Acoustibot , rmak321 Report

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#9

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online We put googly eyes on everything in the fridge to shock the kids in the morning. We thought it was freakin hilarious and were totally impressed with our cleverness. Our kids were not impressed in the slightest. Not sure they even noticed.... Next year, we made them cereal and milk with a spoon in the bowl and put it in the freezer overnight. When we gave them breakfast, one burst into tears and the other threw it on the floor. Our kids can't hang :(

babeegotback , Geoff Greer Report

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Jill Chambers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

I like this. Somewhere there will be kids that are really disappointed that their parents don't do anything for April Fools Day. They weren't born on 1st of April were they? Maybe somebody swapped them as a joke.

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#10

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Put dry macaroni under the toilet seat, so it'll sound like the toilet breaks when someone sits on it.

tonightelvisisdead , jules Report

#11

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Put notes on people's cars telling them "sorry about the damage". They will spend forever looking for it.

that_guy_fry , Sergey Rodovnichenko Report

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Jill Chambers
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Nah. No good if you can't see the results. And if you put your contact details on they might find something and expect you to pay.

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#12

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Take screenshot of desktop.

Remove all icons on desktop.

Close all applications.

Set taskbar to "auto-hide".

Set screenshot as wallpaper.

Result: computer looks just as they left it, but when they try to do anything, it doesn't work.

Amigara_Horror , Mark Ordonez Report

#13

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online My favorite I did is to zip tie the cabinets and fridge shut. Then when they go to get the scissors, they find it they are zip tied shut too. Make sure to have an extra pair... I forgot to do that last year and had to buy another one...

Mooseymoose32 , donkeyboxx Report

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#14

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Open up the spray option on your kitchen sink, aim at face. Gets the wife every year.

Protip: don't forget you did it the night before: I get myself every year as well.

thorstad , Bill Smith Report

#15

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online I replaced a picture of one of my friend's family members with a black and white picture of Boris Johnson.

RugbyTime , BackBoris2012 Campaign Report

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mulk
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You must sign the picture on the back, like: "April fool joke from XXX, 2022" So when they notice and remove the fake picture, they will realize it stay here during X years and know who to "blame"...

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#16

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Create scheduled tasks on their computer to play an annoying song, at an annoying time.

We did this to a co-worker. Every day, 1:15, his computer would start to play Nickleback. 3:45, Taylor Swift.

Tax_Dollars_at_Work , Kai Hendry Report

#17

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online I work in Sales, and it seems like we always have a new guy around April. I like to write down on a post it "Please follow up with Mr. Baer at..." and then the number for the San Francisco zoo.

Facefoxa , Phil Roeder Report

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#18

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Move every piece of furniture 2 inches to the right. Subtle but sweet.

NutOnMeDaddy , Kara Babcock Report

#19

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Day before April Fools during my highschool years I tell my parents that "school was cancelled". Tomorrow during the middle of the school day I say "April Fools". Oddly enough I wasn't met with the laughs I was expecting.

Rag546 , Stefan Report

#20

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Freeze mashed potatoes. Scoop frozen mashed onto cones. Serve the kids vanilla ice cream cones for dessert. The look on their faces after they take a big bite is amazing! Cheap, funny and harmless.

Shelsstuff , Meal Makeover Moms Report

#21

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Put a picture of Slash from Guns n Roses on a coworker's tires and tell them you slashed their tires

mutboi , glowingforest Report

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#22

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Pulled this on my wife two years ago. I logged into her Facebook and changed her birthday to April 1st.

Wishes came flooding in.

Psyrkus , English106 Report

#23

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online I have a key to the vending machine at work. I've been wanting to buy a bunch of bananas and replace all the chips and candy with them.

LivingInTheVoid , Dave Report

#24

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online A few years ago I bought 200 packets of mayonnaise and hid them all over my boyfriend at the time's room. I tucked them in the pockets of all his clothes, in his board games, behind his wall art- anywhere you could think of there was mayonnaise. He was still finding mayo a couple years later.

aimeesaysgrowl , ortolina Report

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STress
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Better one: buy some vanilla puddings. Empty the mayo jar. Put the pudding inside the jar. Take a spoon, sit somewhere outside and start eating. Faces around you - priceless!

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#25

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online At the office, fill a bowl with trail mix, but remove all M&M's and replace with Skittles.

cgrant993 , Mike Mozart Report

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#26

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Take off the lid to the shower drain. Shove in a plastic bag with some chocolate milk powder mix in it. Secure the bag with the drain cover and cut off any excess bits of plastic. Wait for sounds of disgust as brown water starts coming up from the drain while they're showering.

Dysthymike , F_A Report

#27

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online My mom used to be a hunt-and-peck typer, so one year I pried all the keys off of her keyboard and re-arranged them in alphabetical order.

She got pretty mad, but she decided that maybe she should learn to type properly, so she did. That prank wouldn't work today.

LaboratoryManiac , Adikos Report

#28

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Got this from Rooster Teeth years ago, but it works wonders. Get a group of friends together and start texting a specific person with everything in 'quotes.' Don't say any about, don't even acknowledge it. Then the next day suddenly stop.

Littleartistan , Melina Sampaio Manfrinatti Report

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#29

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Replace their Purell with Lube. Watch them rub their hands together forever. The lube washes off harmlessly, the shame never will.

Muadibz , Mike Mozart Report

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Dylan Dowds
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

As long as it's a specific person's sanitizer that you know, not general use... There are people out there allergic to some lubes

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#30

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Paint all the bars of soap with clear nail polish.

[deleted] , soapylovedeb Report

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#31

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Get Tupperware and fill it with water. Tell the victim you're going to show them a magic trick. Hold the container up to the ceiling and have them support it with a broom handle. Once the broom is supporting it, walk away.

[deleted] , Collin Anderson Report

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Man in the ceiling
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This one’s good! (Saw a video once of a guy who easily got the water down with the broom, look it up it’s legendary)

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#32

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Depends on how your plumbing is set up, my friends and I went into another friend's house, unscrewed the head of the shower in the bathroom, and filled it up with a packet of red Kool-Aid, then screwed it back on.

To the same house, we turned off the ceiling fan and then we had one of my taller friends line the top of the ceiling fan blades in the living room with rice krispies from their kitchen.

hokieseas , Jason Brisch Report

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#33

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Working at a fast food restaurant, this guy asked for a couple of ice cubes in his drink. But I only put in one.

musicbpc , Andy Rogers Report

#34

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Buy someone a smoothie but put the end of their straw in a mustard packet

Kyle1337 , cherryliciousblog Report

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Twodogsandapicnictable
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Tricking someone into eating something gross is a serious boundary violation that deserves a very serious asskicking.

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#35

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online Cover the top of the ceiling fan with glitter

081301 , Roger Mommaerts Report

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José Vitor Lobo
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2 years ago (edited) DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Glitter can be highly dangerous. It can do severe damage to de eyes or even blind someone. It can also cause serious lung problems if inhaled

Casey Payne
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

You wouldn't laugh long. From that moment on, you would not rest until every spec of glitter was recovered. Think 'Curse of the Black Pearl' level of no rest. For certain my soul be damned for cursing you like that but really? Glitter? You had it coming. Who could tell me that I was wrong?

Kady LaHaie
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

This is my husband's actual worst nightmare. Would only do this if I wanted him to divorce me.

Bruce Ferrier
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1 year ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Put all of it on a bunch of tape if you don't want to clean it up. Do this prank in the winter (if you don't want to wait for April) and it will take a lot of time until they set it off

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#36

30 April Fools’ Pranks You Might Want To Try This Year, As Shared By People Online "Mom, I think my girlfriends pregnant."

[deleted] , Janine Report

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Dirk Daring
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2 years ago DotsCreated by potrace 1.15, written by Peter Selinger 2001-2017

Fake pregnancy pranks are not cool. You never know who has been trying for years, who had a miscarriage, who found out they are sterile... etc.

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