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How To: Hide your stash inside a candle
In this clip, learn how to mod an ordinary wax candle so that you can store a stash inside it. The best part about this stash box - other than the fact that its easy to make and basically free - is that the candle will still burn normally so no one will ever suspect something's up! So, no matter what you are hiding - try this cool hack and keep your stuff safe. Hide your stash inside a candle.
How To: Cheat on a test & not get caught
Learn how to cheat on a test and never get caught again! 1. Gather the required materials: pen, tape, and a scissors. The pen required is a special kind of pen found at any local store. The tube of this pen rotates inside the click at the top. 2. Type up what you'll need for the test and print the sheet out. 3. Carefully cut out the printed paper. 4. Take apart your pen, take out the tube, take the piece of paper and simply tape around the tube. Note: the size of the font determines the space...
How To: Pick a Masterlock 130
Here is tutorial lock picking video on how to open a lock without key. The lock opened in this video is a Master lock nr 130, The tools used to pick this lock are a tension wrench and a finger.
How To: Prank phone call somebody through the Internet
This video tutorial will show you how to make a crank call without a cell phone or a land line rotary... all you need is the Internet... the glorious Internet, and a little known website called prankdialer.com. Youcan't make any kind of prank call you like, you can even Rick Roll somebody with "Never Gonna Give You Up." After you dial and send the crank call, all that's left is to laugh.
How To: Trick your friends with two easy puzzles
If your preferred means of showing that you're smarter than others is to trick them with elaborate and tedious puzzles, then Brian Brushwood is your man. This video will teach you two easy bar tricks with matches and drawing that might get you a free drink with the right crowd.
How To: 7 Harmless (But Slightly Evil) Back-to-School Pranks for Your Gullible Dorm Mates
It's that time of year when high school students say goodbye the their past four years of coddling, ready to enter the "real world" and the next chapter of their lives—college.
Arcade Hacking: 6 Tricks to Getting More Prize Tickets Out of Game Machines
Arcade games have always been more about chance than skill (at least when I play them). Whether you're at a children's party at a Chuck E. Cheese's or drinking it up with your pals at a barcade like Dave & Buster's, you'll find similar games that hold the golden ticket to fun and cheap prizes that no one needs—boy, do you want them.
How To: Prank a Coworker or Friend by Flipping Their Computer Screen Upside-Down
The perfect way to avoid boredom at work or in the classroom is with a good old-fashioned prank, and this one is for tech-minded. In the video below, you'll see how to change your coworker's (or classmate's) computer screen to be display upside-down, which will totally freak them out when they return from lunch or the restroom. The best part is watching them try to revert it back to normal!
How To: Do the Land O'Lakes Indian Butter (Boob) Trick
The artwork for Minnesota's Land O' Lakes butter packaging is classic, dating back to 1928 when it was first created by Brown & Bigelow illustrator Arthur C. Hanson. The logo was updated ("modernized") once in 1939, again in the '50s, and has undergone minor modifications here and there since. The legendary packaging is good for two rather nerdy tricks: A) a very trippy optical illusion and B) a very infantile boob illusion.
How To: Make someone faint
This is NOT fake. To make someone faint, first have them squat down and breathe in deeply for about 10 seconds. Then, have them stand up straight against a wall and hold their breath. Get someone else to push hard against their chest. The person standing should then lose concsiousness for a few seconds! WARNING : This is dangerous and I am not responsible for any injuries/deaths that may occur. I do NOT encourage you to try this. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Cheat on a math test using a calculator
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...
How To: Exam Coming Up? Use This Anaglyph 3D Trick to Combine Two Cheat Sheets into One!
If you've ever taken a university course with an awesome professor, you're more than likely acquainted with the precious and all-glorious cheat sheet. Like the midterm, the professor usually allows a one-sided cheat sheet for the most important exam of the class—the dreaded final. I should work on my final, but I'd rather just sit here and be a douchebag.
How To: Shut down someone's computer from your own
In a boring lull after getting home from summer school and need some random play to perk your day up? Watch this video to learn how to quickly shut down someone else's computer from your own.
How To: 5 Secret Codes You Need to Know About Costco's Prices to Get Even Better Deals
It's no surprise that Costco has great deals, and that's why millions pay annual fees for the privilege to shop in their wholesale outlets. Just take their hotdog and soda combo for $1.50—it's the same price now as it was 27 years ago.
How To: 5 Easy to Do Booby Traps You Just Gotta Try on April Fool's Day!
These are 5 simple yet effective booby traps you can set up on friends and family. Not much is needed, you already pretty much have the household items so just follow the instructions and you'll be on a prank spree this April Fool's Day!
How To: The 13 Best Office Pranks for Torturing Your Coworkers on April Fool's Day
The best part about April Fool's Day is that everyone is fair game. Even big tech companies like Google and Twitter get in on the action every year. It encourages even the most uptight, unfunny party-poopers among us to have a little fun driving each other crazy with pranks — even at work.
How To: Hide your stash in a Ford truck
Did you know there are secret compartment in your Ford truck? This how-to video will reveal the secret compartments in Ford trucks. This is what smugglers don't want you to know! Hide valuables staches from cops, wife, etc., you get the picture...just watch this instructional video already.
How To: Make a Prank Popup Message in Windows That's Hard to Get Rid Of
This is a very simple, but very funny prank to play on your friends using Windows. Creating the file
How To: Get Free Drinks from a Vending Machine
Thirsty? Forgot your wallet? Well if you have one arm, you will be able to get a drink from a vending machine for free anytime you want! Well only if you can find the type of vending machine shown in the video. Watch this conning how-to video to see how easy it is to con a soda vending machine to get a free drink.
How To: Hack a Voicemail Account Using SpoofApp
Have you ever noticed that whenever you setup your voicemail account after getting a new cell phone number, it asks you to create a security pin to access your voicemail from other phone lines?
News: Top 10 Pranks for the College Freshman Dorm
We've gathered some of our favorite pranks with the seasonally appropriate for all you college kids out there. You're more than likely cohabitating with a complete stranger, and what better way to make a good first impression and develop a strong personal relationship than subject them to a hilarious prank?
How To: Get Free Snapple, Soda and Snacks from Vending Machines
Have you ever seen one of those Snapple machines with the lever coin return? I will show you how to get free drinks or snacks out of this type of machine.
How To: Make A Fake Computer Error Message
This article will show how to make a simple, fake computer error message. These message boxes are 100% harmless, and make for funny pranks. They will display any text you want them to.
How To: Do the cracked LCD prank
A step-by-step tutorial on how to pull the infamous cracked computer screen prank on your family members or friends!
How To: Hack a Pepsi Machine
Learn how to con a vending Pepsi machine and access a secret (but benign) debug menu with this hack how-to video. While this hack won't get you any free soda, you might, at the very least, impress your friends with it. For complete instructions for this simple, pushbutton hack, take a look at this instructional video!
How To: Save Money on Groceries! Scam… Er… Scan Your Own Stuff at Self-Checkout
If you're running into the grocery store just to get a quick drink or snack, self-checkout machines can save you a ton of time. Add a few more items to your list, though, and they are just plain annoying. When they actually work how they're supposed to, self-checkout machines can make your shopping trip more convenient, but those instances are few and far between.
How To: Pick a luggage lock with a paperclip
Learn how to pick a luggage lock with this lock picking tutorial. You need a baggage lock and a paperclip. Use needlenose pliers to bend the paperclip into a lock pick or a homemade key. Twist your lock pick around until the lock opens. Simple lockpicking tutorial.
How To: Break into a Locked Suitcase Without Leaving Any Trace
Have you ever found something in your suitcase that wasn't yours? Maybe it was, but you're almost certain it wasn't. Maybe a friend slipped something in your baggage before your departure flight? Maybe the TSA was playing a joke on you, since they have all the master keys for your approved travel locks?
How To: Con a Vending Machine & Get 2 Cokes for the Cost of 1
Follow these step by step instructions to learn how to hack a vending machine, giving you two Cokes for the price of one. You and your friends will love this cool vending machine con. Never go thirsty again. Just check out this instructional video and start hacking vending. Machines nowadays are SO smart that they know you haven't received your drink and give your money back. Humans nowadays are SO smart that we can make ourselves not receive drinks we paid for, get our money back, and then b...
How To: Do the Liquid ASS air freshener stink prank
Isn't the whole point of those battery-operated automatic fresheners to make things smell good? Normally, yes. But with a simple mod, it could be the world's best stink prank. Simply changing the liquid aromatic cleanliness of the freshener to something not so sterile and sweet is all you need to do.
How To: Make a Yes/No Question Error Message
This article will teach you how to make an error similar to this one (also by me). This error message though, is a yes or no question. Clicking yes and no will give different results. Like the previous error message, this is 100% harmless.
How To: Make a Stink Bomb from Things You Can Find Around the House
Here are three different methods you can use to make a stink bomb prank from things you can find around the house—just a pack of matches, an empty plastic soda bottle, and some household ammonia. Mix the tips of the matches with the ammonia and let it sit for three or four days, then stink it up!
How To: Perform the exploding soda can prank
If you want to prank a friend or family member, this next tutorial is one that is really easy to perform. This is called the exploding soda can prank.
How To: SMS or text bomb someone you dislike
Looking to annoy the heck out of someone you dislike? Why not spam their phone a hundred times with a "text bomb" or "SMS bomb"? In this video, learn how to send an SMS bomb by downloading this link. You will need Microsoft's .NET Framework in order to run this program, which you can get at:
How To: Fake your death online
Tired of the same old boring things on the internet. Learn how to fool everyone and fake your own death. Through careful planning you too can join the likes of Elvis, Bigfoot, and Nessie the Lockness Monster. Fake your death online and have a grand ole time fooling all of the people that know you. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks! Fake your death online.
How To: Pull a computer prank that will make a disc drive open and close randomly
Computer pranks are some of the most insidious because computer are so expensive, necessary, and misunderstood by the general public. This video will show you how to take advantage of all of that by writing a quick script that will cause a computer's disc drive to open and close apparently of it's own free will. Great for messing with friends and coworkers at the office.
How To: Make a loud bang sound with a piece of paper
Do you like making loud noises? We do here at Wonderhowto, and this video will show you one easy way to do so using only a standard sheet of printer paper. You just have to fold in a certain way, slam it against a table or other hard surface, and bang! You've made a loud banging noise without having to invest in poppers or anything! You can reuse the same sheet to create further bangs, but the noise level may diminish with repeated banging.
How To: Make fake semen
Learn how to make fake semen and trick all your friends. Use this as inspiration for one of your April Fools Day pranks!
How To: Buy Alcohol & Prescription Drugs Cheaper at Costco & Other Club Stores Without a Membership
Everybody loves Costco. The low prices, large bulk, and free samples are all just some of the reasons why Costco is such a great wholesale membership club. Their stores are always in tip-top shape and the customer service is great. Even their employees are treated well, making $17 an hour, while their Walmart counterparts make just $12.40 an hour (and that's only if they're full-time). What's not to love?
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.