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How To: Always win in napkin chess

This week: a rigged game of skill & a simple sucker bet! Check out this video if you want to learn how to beat anyone in a simple game that can be played anywhere with coins and a napkin. Some might call it magic, others call it skill.

How To: Change the hold music on the company phone system

Changing the hold music piped into your company phone is a prank some callers will appreciate—depending on what you replace it with.

How To: Play a keyboard prank on a coworker

Do you have coworkers who use the hunt-and-peck method of typing? This trick is guaranteed to drive them completely bonkers.

How To: Play a Desk Chair Prank on a Coworker

Lighten up your office with this quick and easy prank. You Will Need

News: Up Periscope! Cancel your Season Tickets

Why shell out for tickets when the view's just fine from the outside? Cheap, clever, fun. Make your own for the next big game.

How To: Pull the "break 2 eggs with a stick in 1 shot" prank

There's something hilarious about breaking eggs, but there's something even more hilarious, and that's breaking something else with a stick. Well, 'breaking' might not be the right word... bruising maybe.

News: Get revenge on junk mail perps

Turn the tables. Our buddy GreeenPro came up with this ingenious prank.

News: Prevent the dude in front from reclining

Don't want a reclining seat in your lap? Solution: Zip Ties

News: Beat the claw crane. Win the little piggy!

Sick of losing quarters to machines that promise you toys? Wanna win the stuffed piggy once and for all?

News: Prank a buddy with exploding ketchup!

Middle school lunch tables are begging for this prank. Wait, who are we kidding? Everybody's lunch table could use a ketchup explosion every once in a while!

News: Thwart traffic tickets with LED installs

Video: Add LED lights to avoid speed detection while driving.

News: Master 3-card monte

Michael Shermer is an authority on cons. As Editor in Chief of Skeptic Magazine, Shermer has spent most of his professional life in, as he likes to call it, "baloney detection".

News: Cook up fake vomit

Puke! SpacePaintings' recipe for vomit is ingenious. The ingredients seem random: a kitchen sponge, Elmer's glue and of course-- food coloring.

How To: Do a Wolf Whistle

Use the piercing whistle in this how-to video on strangers at your own peril. Although it's commonly depicted as a pick-up method, it may not be particularly effective in that regard. All the same, the wolf whistle is a classic and will definitely be attention grabbing. Watch this video, and you may even be able to apply it as a practical joke of sorts.

News: Prank a shower head with chicken bouillon

Mom, watch your back. I kid you not. Stealth. Super-annoying without being dangerous. No trace. Sublime in that Ian Fleming kind of way.

How To: Fake a virus on Windows by creating a shortcut

Okay, what's the greatest prank you can play on a friend in this day of technology? Mess with his computer!

News: Electric shock pen prank

Simple to make and cheap. Splice a pen with the igniter of a Bic lighter. Make sure you use a metal pen. Plastic won't zap. We look at this as a safer cousin to the camera taser prank.

News: Mod a cartridge to print invisible ink

We've all tried writing with lemon juice (a.k.a. invisible ink). It's a mess. And the main draw back is definitely efficiency.

News: Debunk the fake candy machine hacks

Candy machine hacks are so popular now, one might think it's easier to get candy from a vending machine than from a ... baby.

News: Blow a job interview - with mad style

Make your potential boss feel incredibly uncomfortable. That's right. Be completely offensive (yet appear earnest.)

News: Send secret messages with hard-boiled eggs

This may look like a regular, innocent egg… What you are about to see is eggs-actly what makes this tutorial so special!

How To: Make a secret candle safe for valuables

Need a way to hide your small pricey or memorable objects? Well, what better place to hide those cherished items than in a burning candle? Unless your robbers have a thing for scented and aromatic candles.

How To: Prank a showering friend with a school girl outfit

One way to really mock your friends on their behalf is to pull this awesome shower prank! This practical joke video tutorial will show you how to prank a showering friend with a school girl outfit.

News: Pull the classic Psycho shower ghost prank

The essential ingredient for this magical prank is RainX anti-fog car windshield spray. It's designed to repel the raindrops from a car's windshield.

How To: Play the Google language computer prank on a coworker

Watch this video tutorial to learn how to play the Google language computer prank on a coworker. Change your colleague's Google settings with this easy prank, and watch their head spin!

How To: Cheat with a blank piece of paper

Household Hacker brings you fun hack how to projects in a variety of areas: electronic hacks, computer hacks, pranks, etc. Search Household Hacker on WonderHowTo for more videos by this creator. In this video, learn how to cheat with a blank piece of paper.

How To: Set up an infinite boot loop with Household Hacker

Paste this code: shutdown -s -t 10 -c "Your Message Here" One of our viewers brought up that -s would simply shut down your PC, and not keep restarting it. To do so, substitute -s for -r and you should be set!

How To: Pull a door tug of war prank

Pranks are easy to do, and this prank is no exception, but that doesn't mean they aren't funny as hell. Check out this video tutorial to learn how to pull a door tug of war prank in any environment, preferably the dorm room setting. It's a really simple prank, where you simply tie string to do different, close by doorknobs, knock on both doors, then watch as they tug away at each other. Hilarious! See for yourself.

How To: Hack into locks with lock bumping techniques

Today, learn the basics of lock bumping. Lock bumping is a lock picking technique for opening a pin tumbler lock using a specially-crafted bump key. One bump key will work for all locks of the same type.

How To: Steal a computer password with a camera

Hacking into computer systems to steal passwords could be a bit complicated for the average everyday joe, but for all of your tech illiterate folks out there, there's any easy way to get that password, and all it takes is a camera.

How To: Win money with a newspaper con game

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How To: Steal a bed without getting caught

In this prank video tutorial, you will learn how to steal a bed without getting caught. To pull off this cool prank, you will need three group members, a bed to steal, and a place to stash the stolen bed when you are done.

How To: Embed floss into your neck with this prank

You can scare the hell out of your friends with the neat trick, or you can use it in your next horror-filled independent movie, to scare the hell out of your viewers. Watch this prank video tutorial to learn how to embed floss into your neck.

How To: Quickly copy keys using a camera, printer and Dremel

In this ten-step video tutorial, you'll learn how to quickly copy keys using a camera, printer and Dremel tool. With this ten-step process you'll learn the necessary steps to copy almost any key... even if you only have access to it for a brief period of time.

How To: Build the fake door wall roommate prank

2 roommates play a prank on another roommate that is away, they build a wall over the door to his room. This is a long and arduous process that involves lots of sheet rock, spackle and tools. You essentially need to cover his doorway building a false wall that blends in with the rest of the wall. This makes it look as though the wall was never there.