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April Fools’ Day is the one time of year when mischief isn’t just accepted — it’s expected. Whether you’re trying to trick your coworkers, prank your family, or get a laugh out of your friends, this list of 50 April Fools’ pranks offers clever, harmless fun for everyone. Keep it light, playful, and most of all — believable. The best pranks are the ones they almost fall for.
Classic and Easy Pranks
Put a piece of tape under someone’s optical mouse.
Set all the clocks forward one hour.
Freeze their morning cereal overnight.
Put googly eyes on everything in the fridge.
Fill a donut box with vegetables.
Swap the salt and sugar containers.
Cover the remote sensor with a small piece of tape.
Replace Oreo filling with toothpaste.
Hide the toilet paper and leave a note: “Emergency use only.”
Tape down the phone’s handset button, so it doesn’t answer calls.
Office and Work Pranks
Cover a coworker’s desk in sticky notes.
Flip their desktop screen upside down (Ctrl+Alt+Down Arrow).
Unplug their keyboard and mouse and act confused.
Put a fake “Out of Order” sign on the bathroom door.
Change the language on their computer to something obscure.
Auto-correct common words in Word to something silly.
Send a fake company-wide email about a dress code change.
Fill their drawers with packing peanuts.
Set their desktop wallpaper to a screenshot and hide icons.
Tape an airhorn under their desk chair.
Food-Based Pranks
Make “brownies” using brown construction paper cut into E’s.
Offer them caramel onions disguised as apples.
Serve mashed potatoes in an ice cream cone.
Replace jelly in a doughnut with mustard.
Freeze Mentos inside ice cubes and serve with soda.
Fill a sandwich bag with sponge slices instead of bread.
Hand out “chocolate chip cookies” made with black beans.
Put a raisin in their toothpaste tube.
Serve juice that’s actually jello.
Put a few drops of food coloring in their milk.
Pranks for Family and Friends
Tell them their favorite celebrity is in town.
Claim you’re moving to another country.
Say you’re switching to a new name and insist everyone uses it.
Pretend you’ve adopted a strange new hobby — like worm collecting.
Act like you forgot what day it is and overreact when reminded.
Send a fake text saying “We need to talk. It’s serious.”
Say you broke something valuable (then show it’s fake).
Pretend you can’t hear them, no matter what they say.
Keep texting random facts with “BREAKING NEWS” at the start.
Tape a fake spider under their lamp shade.
Tech and Digital Pranks
Replace all of someone’s app icons with the same image.
Set a recurring alarm on their phone for every hour.
Change your contact name to “Boss” and send weird messages.
Auto-play a creepy sound using a hidden Bluetooth speaker.
Turn off their autocorrect and let the chaos begin.
Change their ringtone to something embarrassing.
Flip their screen colors in settings.
Add “LOL” to the end of every saved Wi-Fi name.
Pretend you’re voice typing into a remote control.
Turn on screen reader mode on their phone and hide the setting.
Always remember: pranks should be fun, not mean. Avoid anything that causes real panic, damage, or discomfort. Keep it clever, playful, and respectful — that way, everyone laughs (including your target).
Happy pranking!
