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In this tutorial, we learn how to cheat on a math test using a calculator. The first way to cheat is to go into your calculator where the programming is. After this, you can type in the information that you need to store into the calculator and then save it to look at later. The other way to cheat is to write down the information that you need on a small piece of paper. After this, tape it to the inside of your graphing calculator on the shell. If a teacher comes by, simply put the calculator...

In this tutorial, we learn how to cheat on a test using a rubber band. If you're desperate to pass a test, using a rubber band may just be your answer. First, you will just grab a simple old rubber band and wrap it around a VHS tape to help stretch it out. Then, grab a pen and start to write! Write down the information you need for your test around the rubber band. From here, you will be able to put the rubber band around your wrist or hand and use it for your test! This can mix in with your...

In this tutorial, we learn how to cheat on a test in a short sleeve shirt. First, take a piece of paper and cut out a circle from it. Make sure it's small so it can fit in the palm of your hand. After this, write down all the answers or information that you need onto this piece of paper. Once you're finished, take the paper and stick it into the palm of your hand. Make sure the writing is facing out towards you. Then, when you need the information you can simply open up your hand, then close it...

In this tutorial, we learn how to cheat on a test wearing a long sleeved shirt. First, you will need to take a white piece of printer paper and see how large you can cut it so it fits comfortably in your hand without being seen. After this, cut the paper to the size you want it. Then, write out the information that you need onto the piece of paper. From here, you can place the paper inside of your long sleeve, with the answers facing up. Then when you need it, simply pull it out from your...

Make your milk come alive using this at home science experiment! Mix a few drops of various colors of food coloring into a shallow dish of milk. Then add some dish soap, and put just a single drop into the middle. Then watch the ensuing cool effects!

You can make a needle hover in midair! Get a few magnets, and see how far away you can make the needle float. Thread your needles with just the right length of string to make needles hover around your magnet.

Get a red cabbage from the grocery store, and tear up about two or three leaves and put them in a glass jar. Cover the leaves with water and microwave, then strain out the leaves. You can mix the extract with different household chemicals and watch the color change!

Create a secret message for your friends without anyone knowing what you're up to! You can make some easy invisible ink using just some milk. Write your message in milk-ink using a Q-tip. Then let it dry for at least half an hour. The paper will look normal - only an iron will reveal your writing.

Here's a quick, simple prank to pull on anyone in under 2 minutes.  It works especially great for someone who has tons of icons on their desktop!  It makes the computer look the same, but nothing on the desktop works!

Congrats to WonderHowTo Jackass 3D prank contest winner Grayson Robison!

Want to protect your things from people you suspect might be snooping? This video shows you how to set up simple systems for your closet, refrigerator, dresser drawer and even find out if someone has been helping themselves to your liquor!

In this tutorial, we learn how to pick a padlock with a single paperclip. First, check your lock to make sure it isn't broken, busted, or damaged. After this, take your paperclip and bend it out. Next, use pliers to bend the paper clip into a loop shape. Once you've done this, stick the loop into the lock in the middle and twist it. Play around with the lock for a few seconds and continue to twist until the lock comes unlocked. If it's not working, create a bigger or smaller loop in the...

In this tutorial, we learn how to pick a cylinder door lock with a wire. These types of locks are very easy to get open because they have an easy turn inside to push them. First, take your wire and fashion a loop at the end of it. After you do this, stick it into the door lock and start to play around with it. Move the wire around until you hear and feel where the lock of the door is at. When you find this, you will hear the noise of the lock moving and then it will click when it has opened!

In this tutorial, we learn how to pick a locked door with a paperclip. First, open up your paperclip and then twist the end of it so it's a spiral shape. Then, scrub over the pins and create a spiral shape with these as well. Try your best to make the shape of the paperclip to look like the unlocking saw. Now, take a tension wrench and force it into the bottom of the lock. Then, stick the paperclip into the top of this and turn upwards several times going quickly. When you hear the lock come...

World of Warcraft is a super fun game, but as anyone who's ruling the game at level 80 (the level cap at the moment) will tell you, getting to 80 is a long and sometimes tedious journey.

How cool are smoke grenades? You toss 'em into the air and they explode into a vision of thick clouds and smoke, preventing your enemy from seeing you as you stealthily sneak past him and shoot him upside the head with a paintball gun.

Have you ever felt the need to escape a situation you couldn't? Be it a date with a "special" someone, an awkward conversation, or a board meeting, we all are often placed in situations that we rather would not be in. Personally, I would escape such situations by telling a friend to call/ text me when I felt it was time to take a break or leave. Most people, myself included, do not have a friend always ready to call him or her at the moment he or she need to leave. Recently, I stumbled across a...

You know those tubes that siphon money in banks? It's called the pneumatic tube system, and thanks to some clever con artists, it's now a rather large flaw in the banking system.

Henry Goodelman we commend you, sir. You have stunned and baffled us ... more than any of the other 1000+ submitters to the Jackass 3D Prank Contest.

Opening someone else's mail without permission is a felony offense, but if you really need to read someone else's mail and don't want them to know about it, watch this video. It will show you how to open an envelope and reseal it secretly, protecting you from anger and legal action.

There is something to be said for the idea that every person needs to know one really awesome magic trick. If you don't know one yourself, and need something to impress your friends and fellow bar patrons, you're in luck. This video will show you how to do an easy sleight-of-hand trick disappearing trick with a cork that will fill that hole in your skills lineup.

Chico Marx was the oldest of the Marx Brothers, but is not as well-remembered as some of his younger brothers. Apparently, he liked this trick, and now you can too. It works great for tricking people at bars. It involves a circle of dollars and a game of removing them that you can win every time with a simple trick.

This video will show you how to pull off a really cool bar tricks on your fellow drinkers using only an olive, a brandy snifter, and two napkins. The challenge is to move the olive from one napkin to another without touching the napkins using only a brandy snifter. The trick is spinning the olive the snifter and moving it upside-down to the other napkin.

The clock is tickin'... Time to get those Jackass 3D Prank Contest entries in. And to remind you of what's at stake, here's an exclusive sneak preview from the upcoming Jackass 3D, straight from the source.

Has the new season of Jersey Shore brought out your inner hooligan? Or better yet... does the anticipation of the new Jackass 3D movie have you itching to debase and humiliate your best pals? Fortunately, it's just about time to head back to school. And if you have a roommate, well....we pity him/her.

'Gleeking' is a funny trick with your mouth where you can secretly spray someone with saliva. This comedy staple can be achieved using just a few pieces of tart or sour candy hidden on your tongue and a practiced technique.

The Fake Adult Website Prank is an incredible trick if you happen to have the necessary access and work in the internet industry. Luckily, I had both.

Reading people's minds is something that most inquisitive and sensitive people have wished that they could do at some point. Well, what if you could? This video will show you a great multipurpose bar trick that will allow you to appear to read the mind or body of people in a variety of situations. It's really remarkable how easy this is and how well it works.

The padlocks that secure most of America's high-school lockers are one of the easiest types of locks to open in the world for thieves and other miscreants. The easiest, cheapest way to do so is using a shim. These can be bought online, but why both when you can make one yourself out of an old soda or beer can? This video features a professional lockpicker at a conference explaining exactly how to make your own can shim and use it to open any padlock. You little devil you.

Safecracking is something that most of us will only come in contact with in the movies, where strange men and women stick their head against safes and twist dials until the safe magically opens. If your interest in gaining entrance to safes that aren't yours goes beyond that, this video will teach you most of what you need to know. It features a prominent lockpicker giving a 30 minutes presentation on non-destructive safecracking techniques.

Card magic is generally done to amuse the elderly and to scam the gullible. This video will show you a great way to do the latter and get yourself free drinks at a bar. The outcome of the trick is that you and your victim both cut to the same card in a deck after you bet them that it will happen. Watch the video, then get out there and pull the prank.

There are a lot of ways to get free drinks from people at a bar. Being good-looking is one, having rich friends another. If you aren't or don't have those things, watch this video! It will show you a trick that you can pull on bar patrons to make them buy you beer using only some corks and a secret prank technique.

The pool hall is one of the most traditional places to meet and socialize with others in both East and West. If your crappy pool skills keep you from enjoying your time out at the pool hall properly, try pulling some of these pranks on people better than you! They range from the extremely simple beat-me-without-scratching gambit and other tricks that defy convenient naming but are hilarious and involve both pool and beer.

Matches may not be the ubiquitous part of every person's going-out equipment that they once were, but they are still useful both for lighting fire if you don't have a lighter and for pulling these two hilarious bar pranks. The first is a simple counting game where you manipulate your victim into making piles of matches of sizes you guess correctly, because you rigged the game. The second involves challenging the victim to make six equal half of eleven using a pile of matches. Both are funny,...

Whether you have a PC or a Mac, error message windows are a regular and infuriating part of your life. In this video, you will learn a cool way to harness them for your own amusement by creating fake error message windows to prank your friends and family members on their Windows computers.

Making anonymous prank calls got a little difficult for a while there in the early 2000's. Not anymore though! Between Skype and PrankDialer there are very few people that you can't prank call anymore without having to worry about them finding you. This video will show you how to use Prank Dialer to make prerecorded prank calls to whomever you want for free. Good times.

This prank is great because it combines the digital and the analog to create a multimedia prank. All you have to do is load up this web page, which looks just like the Google front end. If you follow the instructions in this video, you will learn how to make the two O's in the title disappear from the page. Combined with a little storytelling and misdirection on your part, this can be turned into a trick where you make your friends think that you have magically erased the two O's from Google's...

The mouse is the primary tool most people use for accessing their computer and the vast stores of information on the Internet. Wouldn't it be funny if instead of allowing you to click icons on the computer screen, your mouse just lit up and made noises when you pressed it buttons? Well now you can prank a friend's optical mouse and make it so. This video will show you how to do it using only a mouse, simple tools, and a light-up, noisemaking keychain cow toy.

Great pranks, like death and various other phenomena, come in threes. This video is a perfect example of that, and will teach you three awesome pranks that you can pull on a roommate, friend, or mortal enemy. First, you'll learn about placing a table over a sleeping persons head and waking them with an airhorn. Second, you'll learn how to rig a squirting toilet. Lastly, there's the fake tire explosion balloon trick. All classics, all easy, all things you should go try.

This video made by a loving wife while her husband is at work outlines three fun, safe, easy ways for families to prank each other without risking damage, injury, or rage. She starts by taping the laser on the bottom of her husband's mouse so it won't work. Then shut puts toothpaste under the light switches in dark rooms so that her hubby will get a sticky finger when he turns on the lights. Lastly, she put flour on the inside of his beloved window fan so that it will shoot out when he turns it...