redhead450 548 5
01/29/2010 07:00 AM

Take advantage of your roommate leaving for the weekend by TP-ing her entire side of the room. Collect a few of those giant rolls of toilet paper from the dorm bathroom and go crazy decorating. Get tacks or tape so you can make it stick to the ceiling.

blabs 626 5
01/29/2010 07:11 AM

Celebrate a friend's birthday by wrapping all their dorm room possessions in gift-wrap. Make sure to get all the big furniture first: the desk, the bed, and the dresser. Then use the extra wrapping paper to wrap everything else in the room, from their lamp to their shower basket. Don't forget to get each piece of clothing. There's nothing like unwrapping underwear.

Jenni Maier 1,458 13
01/31/2010 07:51 AM

Do you have a roommate that doesn't get the hint when you want to be alone? Relocate your roommate for the night by moving his entire half of the room into the dorm lounge. Rearrange all his furniture so it looks identical to way it is inside your dorm room. Don't forget the small details, like the socks he never picks up or the overflowing trash can. Top off this prank by leaving a legitimate-looking note in your roommate's mailbox saying there's been an urgent room change.

ROFL1984 344 5
01/31/2010 08:01 AM

Turn a friend's dorm room into a bathroom by switching a few pieces of paper. Remove the RA-made name on their door and put it on the bathroom door. Make sure it covers up the bathroom door sign. Next put a bathroom door sign on your friend's door. Floor mates will be do a double take at the bathroom-turned-dorm room. Not only that, your friend will get a lot of people just walking into his room thinking it's the bathroom. A lot of great confusion all around.

redhead450 548 5
01/31/2010 08:15 AM

If you have a class where your professor uses a listserv to contact all the students, you have the opportunity to pull off a great prank. A day or so after your final exam send an e-mail out your class (remove the professor) saying you have horrible news. You just went by to ask the professor a question and he informed you that he accidentally spilled coffee on a stack of exams. Certain students will have to retake the test. The professor is figuring out now which tests are still readable and which aren't. After he figures that out, he's going to send out an official e-mail with the news. Emphasize that you just wanted to give the class a heads-up that they might have to retake their exam. Get ready to see a lot of your classmates have a full-on heart attack.

Jenni Maier 1,458 13
02/01/2010 06:47 AM

Drive your roommate crazy during his exams by wrapping all his textbooks, notebooks, and flashcards in gift-wrap. When he asks why you did it, put on a sad face, and say "Belated birthday gift?"

redhead450 548 5
02/01/2010 06:54 AM

Grab a huge stack of old student newspapers and start balling up the pages. Once you have about 3-5 trash bags full of balled up paper, head over to your biggest neat freak friend's dorm room, and go wild spreading the paper everywhere.

blabs 626 5
02/01/2010 07:30 AM

Turn an average dorm room into a life size spider web with just a few balls of yarn and some tacks. Recruit two or three friends and ask them each to bring a ball of yarn and box of tacks. Target a room and wait for the victim to leave. Once your victim is gone, you should go in and start tacking up the yarn like crazy. Start by tacking a piece from the wall to the ceiling to another wall. End that piece by tying it to a bedpost. Everyone should continue doing that around the room until it looks like a giant web. Make sure you don't trap yourself in.

blabs 626 5
02/01/2010 07:30 AM

Do you have a messy roommate who just won't pick up after himself? Help him tidy by putting all his belongings on the bed. Once all his items are on his bed you should Saran Wrap the whole pile until the entire bed is covered in plastic. Run a roll of duct tape over the Saran Wrap a few times just for a good measure.

birdistheword 526 5
02/01/2010 10:23 AM

If your dorm bathroom is big enough, try relocating one of your friend's bedrooms into the bathroom. Move as much as possible and try to set it up exactly like it is in his dorm room. The final step should be moving the name tag on his door to the bathroom. This prank not only gets your friend (who now lives in the bathroom), but also everyone else on the floor who doesn't get why someone sleeps next to the toilets.

ROFL1984 344 5
02/01/2010 10:42 AM

Do you have a friend that hates a celebrity for no reason? Make her hate the celeb more by decorating her room with that celeb's face. Find a few decent pictures of the celeb where she's staring into the camera and print out 100 copies (total). Then grab some tape and put them all over your friend's room. Her entire wall, door, desk, and bed should be covered.

Jenni Maier 1,458 13
02/01/2010 10:54 AM

Turn your roommates deodorant into spray paint. [Step-by-step instructions here.]

Fill a friend's room up with water cups. He'll have to chug fast or empty quickly if he wants to get in his room. [Step-by-step instructions here.]

Turn your roommate's world upside down by reversing their room. [Step-by-step instructions here.]

blabs 626 5
02/01/2010 11:30 AM

Go Post-It note crazy in some one's dorm room. While your friend is out one day, put Post-It's everywhere. If you have time, you should color coordinate. Something like green for all electronics, yellow for all bedding, pink for all walls.

Naleigh 341 5
02/01/2010 12:37 PM

Turn your dorm hall into an obstacle course. Get a bunch of old tires (or new if you have that kinda extra cash on you) and set them out two by two so they block the hallway. Make it so that the only way people can get from the elevator to their room is to walk through the tires. Put a finish line at the end for good measure.

redhead450 548 5
02/02/2010 06:42 AM

Dorms are notorious for always having a lot of popcorn. Add to the fun by popping around 20 bags and filling a friend's floor with it. Go above and beyond by getting string and needle so you can string up the popcorn and hang it from the ceiling. Put a warning note on your friend's door that says "movie night."

Jenni Maier 1,458 13
02/02/2010 06:57 AM

Show a journalist friend how much you care about the student paper by decorating his room in recycled papers. Wrap every single item in his room in newspaper. Don't forget to tie it up with ribbon and a bow.

birdistheword 526 5
02/02/2010 11:45 AM

Get a bunch of empty cans (100 or so) and build a wall of them right inside someone's room. Make sure to be careful so you don't knock over your hard work. When you victim returns from class he'll be stuck at the entrance to his room staring at a wall of cans.

ROFL1984 344 5
02/02/2010 11:48 AM

Make up a bunch of fliers advertising a non-existent restaurant's free pizza offer. Slip the fliers under everyone's door. Any student that shows up to their opening night gets a free small pizza. Since college students will do anything for free food, people will definitely go. Make the address someplace totally random like a CVS.

Naleigh 341 5
02/02/2010 11:54 AM

Buy a greeting card that sings when you open it. Cut out the sound box and attach it to the door hinges. Every time someone opens the door, the music will play. Try doing this on a classroom door so every time a student comes in late, it will be extra awkward.

redhead450 548 5
02/02/2010 12:19 PM

Help a sick floor mate get healthy by quarantining him into his room. After the sick guy goes to bed, get a giant sheet of plastic and tape it all around his door entrance. Put a skull and bones (and any other scary warning symbols) on the plastic. Place a giant quarantined sign on the plastic and slip an official looking letter under the door saying that the university thinks it would be best for the community if he stayed in his room until he's better.

birdistheword 526 5
02/03/2010 02:18 AM

If you're an RA with a sense of humor, you should try out this great prank. Get string and tie together all the doors together that are across from each other. Then call an emergency floor meeting and let the chaos begin. Have a pair of scissors handy before you get in trouble for creating a fire hazard. Note: this only works if the doors open inward.

Naleigh 341 5
02/03/2010 02:27 AM

This is a great prank if you have a roommate who is always drinking colored bottled drinks, like Gatorade. Wait until your roommate leaves for the night. Then buy Jell-O the same color as the Gatorade and empty out the Gatorade bottle. Follow the Jell-O making instructions and use the bottle to store it before it sets. Leave the bottle in a fridge overnight and wait for your roommate to grab it.

blabs 626 5
02/03/2010 02:28 AM

Do you have a roommate who will sleep through anything? Perfect! Grab a few friends and silently rearrange the room the next time he's sleeping. All you have to do is reverse the room so he'll wake up on your side of the room.

ROFL1984 344 5
02/03/2010 02:33 AM

Create a snow day to get class off. Get to the classroom early with trash bags of shredded paper, white and silver glitter, fans, white streamers and shaving cream. Put the shredded paper all over the floor, sprinkle glitter everywhere and hang the snowflakes and streamers from the ceiling. Line all the windows with shaving cream. Turn this winter scene into a snow storm by turning all the fans on. Finally put a note on your door that says, "Class canceled due to freak blizzard."

ROFL1984 344 5
02/03/2010 02:34 AM

When your roommate goes out to run errands, put 50 bowls of cereal all over his side of the room. When you're done doing all the damage, call him up, and ask him to pick up some milk.

Jenni Maier 1,458 13
02/03/2010 02:35 AM

This is a great prank for someone who has crappy apartment furniture. Every week saw an inch off the your kitchen table legs. Your roommates will slowly start to think that they're getting bigger. Take this prank to the next level by getting all their pants hemmed up an inch.

birdistheword 526 5
02/03/2010 02:43 AM

Grab your smallest friend and a big box to pull off this prank. Go right outside your dorm room and make your friend strip down to his underwear. Then tie his hands and legs together and loosely gag him. Put him in the box, fill it with peanuts, close it up (loosely of course), and label it like a real package. Go in your room and tell your roommate a package came for him but the idiots downstairs thought it was for you. Watch his shock and horror when he opens the box and sees what's inside.

birdistheword 526 5
02/03/2010 02:43 AM

Steal all of your roommate's clothes while he's sleeping, put them in the quad, and take a picture. Then remove all of yours from the room as well. Leave one outfit in the closet (a clown suit, formal tuxedo, anything ridiculous) and leave a note saying all of his clothes are on the quad. This is a great prank for the winter time -- when he'll have no choice but to put on the costume to stay warm.

redhead450 548 5
02/03/2010 02:45 AM

Wait until your roommate is asleep and then change all her clocks to an hour ahead. Make sure to get her alarm clock, watch, cell phone, and computer. She'll get to her first class an hour early and have no idea how that happened.

Naleigh 341 5
02/03/2010 02:51 AM

Buy a bunch of cheap wristwatches with alarm clocks. Find out when your roommate is going to the library to study and set all the alarm clocks to go off within that time span. Hide them all over his stuff so he can't find them when they start to go off. Put one in his coat, one in his laptop bag, one in a zippered part of his backpack, one taped to the bottom of his backpack etc. They'll go off at the library and everyone will want to kill him as he searches for the source of the noise.

Jenni Maier 1,458 13
02/03/2010 02:51 AM

While this prank involves some manpower and time, it's well worth it. Move your friend's entire dorm room to the middle of the quad. Take care to recreate it exactly. The ideal time to do this prank is while your roommate is in a class on the quad. He'll be in for the quite the surprise when he leaves class and discovers his entire room outside.

blabs 626 5
02/03/2010 02:53 AM

Take advantage of a huge snowstorm by turning a dorm room into a winter wonderland. Get a tarp, cover the floor of a friend's room, and remove all of his electronics. Open the windows up so the room gets nice and cold. Then start bringing in buckets of snow and dumping them on the floor. Once the floor is covered in snow, make snow angels, build a snowman, and tell the victim to come home ASAP.

Dave Goldberg 1,458 13
02/22/2010 10:18 AM

Booby trap someone's dorm room door with a ton of empty soda cans.

[Step-by-step instructions here.]

Dave Goldberg 1,458 13
02/22/2010 10:19 AM

Flip a friend's dorm room upside down while he's away for the weekend.

[Step-by-step instructions here.]

Snarkolepsy 358 6
03/12/2010 11:05 AM

Three words for dorm dwellers: quickgrass, water, sheep.

soumyadip 25 5
04/05/2010 06:07 AM

Fill the teacher,s chair with chalk dust before he enters the class.You will observe the effects,once the class is over...

albinofrog 8 5
09/21/2010 01:28 AM

Shower hogs in your dorm room/hall? Easy, quick play back for you to try out next time:

Right after you shower (so that you'll have plenty of time for your prank to wear off before your next bath), unscrew the shower head carefully; the shower head needs to be put back on and shouldn't be damaged in the process of this prank! Take some instant drink mix (Kool-aid, Lemonade, bug juice mix, etc.) and stuff it up into the inside of the pipe which fills/sprays through the shower head. Re-attach the shower head (simply reverse the dismantling process), and voila: you give your roommate, suite-mate, or hall-mate a pleasant little fright upon their next rinsing!

steveduck 83 5
03/18/2011 09:39 AM

an easy gag: replace your dormmates clothes with togas.
Instant toga party!

RamenNoodles 11 4
10/07/2011 04:33 PM

This one is a simple prank we pulled just last week: First things first one needs a trash bin or recycling bin (preferably in a rectangle shape) and some water. You then fill said bin about halfway full with water and lean it up against someone's door. (An aside: the dorm doors must open inward and the victim must already be inside their room) From there, simply wait until they have class next or be proactive and knock on their door.

A variation we found was a little more favorable as it didn't soak the floor was to fill the bin with fake spiders and other insects instead of water. As long as the victim isn't a zombie they will jump and scream, however if that person happens to be afraid of creepy crawlies then you're in for a show!!

Sprog 8,633 12
10/07/2011 05:21 PM

Wow. I'm so glad the previous poster gave instructions on how to put a bucket of water above a door. Not sure if I could do it because it still seems really complicated. Original though.

Jeeni is ready for Halloweeni 43,386 49
10/07/2011 05:30 PM

Naw, the way I read it, you tip the thing to rest ON the door (it's on the floor) and when they open the door inward, the thing tips over toward the victim. I could see that working really well with creepy crawlies.

Sprog 8,633 12
10/07/2011 05:33 PM

Obviously my sarcasm precedes my literacy.

RamenNoodles 11 4
10/07/2011 10:06 PM

hahaha touche gentlemen touche

collegechick2015 4 3
10/09/2011 09:15 PM

Simple but it works. While your friend isn't in their room, take all of their bedding off of the mattress, pick up the mattress and drag in the bathroom...

Thud 66,695 17
10/09/2011 09:25 PM

pick up the mattress and drag in the bathroom...

If I may ask, drag the bathroom to where?

amazonk 5 4
02/09/2012 01:09 AM

Fill their umbrella with Confetti. When it rains and they go to use it, they will be dry but full of colour bits of paper. Especially effective when the target has longer curly hair, harder to get all the confetti out.