College Prank Ideas
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Contributed by ZUG reader Brian:
If you're especially fond of someone, take some underwear from their room, and hang a pair on each doorknob in your hallway, with a note that says something like "With love, from (owner of underwear)."

Contributed by ZUG reader Heather:
You know those Christmas cards that play jingles when you open them? You can remove the music chip from cards and affix it to the insides of door hinges. Every time someone opens the door, the jingle plays -- over and over. Also works well on the bottom hinge of a dark closet. Can take months to discover -- or run out of power.

Contributed by John Hargrave:
At my college dining hall, they gave us these tiny glasses for beverages -- just enough to wash down one swallow of food. One day I got a glass of milk, set my tray on the table to get some napkins, then came back to join my friends a few minutes later. Later in the meal, I was calmly drinking my milk, when suddenly I was terrified to find something HARD in it. I nearly shot out of my chair, and my friends cracked up. The glasses were the perfect size for putting in a hard-boiled egg, which someone had done when I left the table. The milk is white, and the egg is white, so you don't see it. Bizarre and frightening!

Contributed by ZUG reader Toddster:
One of the simplest and funniest pranks I ever experienced in college: a group of us were in a dorm room talking about the deep mysteries of life. Next, we heard a rustling noise, then a sound like a soft, wet burp. Instantly, the room was covered in shaving cream! The prankster had filled a very large manilla envelope with shaving cream, slid the mouth of the envelope under the door, and stomped on it. The shock of it was splendid!

Contributed by ZUG reader xinxspuz:
Get a tube of glue, and a bag full of those googly craft eyes from Wal-Mart. Glue pairs of them to anything: toilet seats, computer monitors, doorknobs, peoples' dishes ... then hide somewhere and watch for their reactions.

Contributed by ZUG reader Heather:
If you go to a party in the room of someone you don't really know, but who is in one of your classes, "borrow" their clothes and wear them to class. Then return them via the school post.

Contributed by ZUG reader Heather:
If you go to a party in a suite of rooms, wait until people get drunk enough, and then try to switch as much stuff from one person's room to another's.

Contributed by ZUG reader Therlin:
You know those little firecrackers with a string on each end, that explode when you pull on both strings? One night at the dorm, we fastened a bunch of those poppers to people's doors with duct tape. One string to the door, the other to the doorframe. Around 6:30 am, when people started waking up, they'd open the door, and the firecracker would go off. Of course, other people would have to open their door to see what was going on outside, setting off a chain reaction.

Contributed by ZUG reader AmyJK:
This prank requires a group of people to help you out, along with a LOT of aluminum cans and some ribbon.
Step 1: Collect an assload of empty aluminum cans. (Just don't recycle for a few months.)
Step 2: Take all the empty cans and ribbon to a different residence building on campus, a rival college, the President's house, etc., when everyone will be asleep.
Step 3: Put a very long strip of ribbon on the floor, and put a row of cans on top of the ribbon. Then put another ribbon on top of the cans, and put another row of cans on top of that. Continue this until you have a huge stack of cans. Make sure to leave enough extra ribbon hanging out as a "starter." You might also want to stack the cans along a wall so that they don't fall over while you're stacking them.
Step 4: When stacking is complete, grab the extra ribbon that's between all the cans, give it a huge pull and run. If all is successful, you will wake up everyone in the building, as well as neighboring counties.

Contributed by ZUG reader fieldy:
Gather up a small stack of paper, some tape, and a couple hundred aluminum cans. Start layering the cans against your victim's door. Tape the paper to the doorframe as you go up, to keep the cans in place. When the cans are all the way up, remove the paper gently. As soon as the victim opens his door the next morning, the suction will send 400+ cans crashing down on him.

Contributed by ZUG reader FlipperOnAPlate:
Icy Hot on the toilet seats.

Contributed by ZUG reader Dicky:
Saran-Wrap the toilet bowl.

Contributed by ZUG reader Heather:
A friend of mine reversed the wires in the light switch every week, so that one week you clicked the switch up to turn on the light, and the next week, you clicked the switch down. After several months his roommate almost lost it.

Contributed by ZUG reader therealthinsadie:
Take those individual ketchup packets (the ones they have in dining halls) and bring them into the bathroom. Lift up the toilet seats, put two ketchup packets on top of each other on the rim, then gently rest the toilet seats back down on the ketchup packets. When we did this, we checked back into the bathroom every ten minutes, to find at least three other girls wiping ketchup off their butts. Too funny!

Contributed by ZUG reader B_Gogniat:
Obtain nine of the same type of animal (pigs, chickens, any animal that you can get your hands on). Then paint on their backs the numbers 1-10, but skip a number like 5 or something. Turn the animals loose in your dorm or student union building. Once they find all the other animals, they'll be looking for the "missing" animal forever.

Contributed by ZUG reader zarmatt:
Fill 18 55-gallon trashbags full of snow. Then pile them in front of your friend's dorm room door.

Contributed by ZUG reader sluggy_is_nifty:
Get a packet of instant milk and put it in someone's bed on a particulary hot night. In their sleep, they will sweat, and in the morning the milk will have mutated into SOUR STINKY MILK! They will stink for a week.

Contributed by ZUG reader Brian:
Many dorm room doors have peepholes installed, so you can see who's knocking. What most people don't know is that it's really easy, if you have access to the other side of the door, to reverse the peephole so that you can look in from the outside.

Contributed by ZUG reader Irish Joe:
Freeze cans of shaving cream. Then carefully use a dremel tool to cut through the can. Put the frozen contents into someones room, and when it thaws out it will expand to full size, which is a hell of a lot of shaving cream.

Contributed by ZUG reader Steven Kawski:
Get one of those industrial-sized rolls of plastic wrap, the kind they use to wrap up palettes of stuff in factories, and wrap someone's car in it. After you go around the car a couple of times, your target won't be able to just grab it and rip it off. A combination of knives, teeth, and blow torches will be needed.

Contributed by ZUG reader Heather:
Get a small group of friends to sneak into the bathroom of a suite of people you do not know well -- or at all =- and shower together. Be quiet at first and then start to converse. There is an amazing diversity of reactions to finding a group of naked people in your shower.

Contributed by ZUG reader Endymion:
Our college dorm had doorframes that were insanely deep, and the doors opened into the rooms. When we wanted to prank someone, we'd get three supplies: cardboard, duct tape, and a giant bag of popcorn kernels. We'd first wait until he'd gone to sleep for the night, then tape the cardboard over the outside of his doorframe (leaving an opening at the top). Then we'd pop the corn and pour it in between the cardboard and the door. When the prankee opened his door in the morning, he'd be greeted by a flood of popcorn!

Contributed by ZUG reader Irish Joe:
Hot sauce on the toothbrush. Only works if you use something strong like Dave's Insanity.

Contributed by ZUG reader Fireman_George:
For revenge on a vehicle: first, use shoe polish to write creative sayings on the windows, then re-write the sayings on the inside of the windows and watch them try to wash it off. Next: put confetti in the A/C vents and turn the blowers on high. Finally, fill the entire vehicle with packing peanuts. Make sure you have a camera, and an escape route!

Contributed by ZUG reader jtl87:
If you have friends that work in retail stores, have them collect a bunch of those security tags that are found on many of the more expensive items. If you break them open you will find what looks like a shiny white plastic strip. This is what sets off the sensors at the front of the store. Put a couple of those strips under the insoles of every pair of shoes your target owns. They will set off almost every sensor around town. Take them out shopping!

Contributed by ZUG reader jtl87:
Remove the bedsprings/slats from a bed. Replace the springs or slats with dental floss just strong enough to hold the matress up. Nighty-night!

Contributed by ZUG reader zarmatt:
If you know the prankee's roommate, and the person you want to prank isn't there, move all of his stuff outside, and tell him that his roommate's real pissed off at him. Then have the roommate play along. Always good for a laugh.

Contributed by ZUG reader zarmatt:
When someone's sick, cut up several large clear plastic bags and then tape them together in order to create a large sheet of plastic. Then at 4 in the morning, tape the sheet of plastic to the person's doorframe with duct tape and then tape a big sign that says QUARANTINED.

Contributed by ZUG reader zarmatt:
If your doors open inward, tie one doorknobs to another one with rope. Bang on both doors and watch the hilarity.

Contributed by ZUG reader sanderson4:
At the beginning of the year, most colleges will leave a small box with with various personal hygeniene products, including small cans of shaving cream. Take a can of shaving cream (Edge works best), and carefully drive a small finishing nail into the can near the bottom. Holding the nail inside the can, knock on the victim's door. When they open their door, yank the nail and toss in the can. Instant shaving cream grenade!

Contributed by ZUG reader Heather:
You can easily remove peepholes from doors (not just reverse them), and then use a super-soaker water gun to awaken your friend.

Contributed by ZUG reader zarmatt:
Put a condom filled with shampoo on someone's doorknob.

Contributed by ZUG reader zarmatt:
When one of your guy friends is in the room with a girl, find a cheap, disgusting porno off of e-Bay and throw it at him. Proceed to tell him that you were returning "Ass-Blasters 2000" or whatever the title may be.

Contributed by ZUG reader Timmiboy:
Go to the dollar store and get a bunch of those cheap travel alarm clocks, set them to go off every half hour in the night, and then hide them throughout the room. Drives them nuts!

Contributed by ZUG reader jaya25g:
Find a dead animal, tie a rope around it, then tie the other end securely under someone's car. Be sure to place it far enough under the car so they won't see it. When they drive away, the excess rope will allow the animal to trail behind the car, and the person will never know!

Contributed by ZUG reader bumknuckle:
Put condoms on all the doorknobs of your dorm. Nobody wants to touch a condom, even an unused one, since they don't know if it's been in someone's ass or not!

Contributed by ZUG reader Anonymous:
Take an assortment of your friend's underwear (bras, panties, boxers, tighty whiteys, skimpy lingerie, etc.) and put it on his or her desk before the class gets there, along with a note that says: "Dear ___, you left these in my office. Fondly, Professor ___. P.S. Great job on the final exam."

Contributed by ZUG reader dedit:
Draw a chalk outline of someone's body on a driveway or sidewalk, and surround it with caution tape. This is legal, as long as you do not use official police caution tape.

Contributed by ZUG reader Karim39:
Find the toilet of your victim, then empty the water basin, and replace the water with vinegar. Add baking powder into the toilet's water reservoir (the part that contains the water that is flushed in after you do your thing). When the victim flushes, the baking soda and vinegar will mix and expand, overflowing the place with their feces.

Contributed by ZUG reader QBallFra3:
If your victim blow-dries his or her hair, then just take a powder-like substance (flour, makeup, etc.) and put it in the front end of the blow drier. Clean the blow drier so it looks spotless. When someone uses the blow drier, the powder will shoot out.

Contributed by ZUG reader Too Funny:
Bring back an egg from the dining hall, then ask someone if they want to assist you in a magic trick. Have your victim stick his or her fingers in the slot between the door and the door frame, just above the hinges. Give him or her the egg, and walk away. Stuck!

Contributed by ZUG reader The April Fool:
A timeless classic: Lead a cow to the top floor of your dorm. Cows won't go down stairs, so people will have a hell of a time getting it down.


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