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News: Wooden Combination Lock Demonstrates Inner Workings

Lockpickers, school yourself. The incredibly prolific, woodworking whiz Matthias Wandel demonstrates the inner workings of a combination lock with his wooden mechanical model.

News: PRANK WARS

WonderHowTo loves pranks. So, naturally we're big fans of College Humor, particularly Prank Wars. Prank Wars stars Amir and Streeter, best pals. Best pals that love to humiliate one another...to say the least... In their latest *life threatening* prank, Amir scares the crap out of Streeter. Check out the interview (and prank) on Jimmy Kimmel: Click through for the complete skydiving prank video (sans Jimmy Kimmel). To view all Prank Wars videos, visit College Humor.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

News: Cheat your education with a Coca Cola

Diligence is good. Cheating is not. Teachers, principals, and tattletales: if you see a student squinting and fixated on a beverage during an exam...think twice.

News: Prank 'em with the (covert) Mentos ice cube

When Eepy Bird performed the Bellagio fountain synchronized soda dance with Mentos, it was nothing less than majestic.

News: Force a head to table face smash at 22FPS

I both apologize and I don't apologize. This is quite procedural, and quite amusing. Now. As a keen student of anthropology, I notice that women rarely initiate pranks. How come? Beats me. (End of keen observation.)

News: Make your friend stink like KFC with a bouillon prank

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

News: Perform the Neck Crunch prank

So simple. So elegant. Like all of the very best magic and pranks. The best part? The odds are overwhelmingly in your favor, considering none of your friends have seen this.

News: Prank the microwave

Oh yeah. I finally found a sublime joke which every girl should try. That tasty concept, we at Wonderhowto call the "category-crossover." Food + Prank. Martin + Lewis. Ebony + Ivory.

News: Execute a perfect upside down coffee prank

Gameday! Bring on the best and most evil pranks. Humiliate those closest to you. This devastatingly simple office prank requires nothing out of the ordinary to perform. In fact, you could probably execute this right now, without getting up from your chair.

News: Cockberg.... Right ahead!

First off, this is not Photoshopped. Spotted off the coast of Antarctica, this iceberg is a naturally sculpted wonder. The UK Metro concluded it was another devastating, or beautiful, result of global warming.

News: Pull fire & water pen pranks

This one starts out pretty tame with the water prank. But rest assured, the second round pen prank satisfies. We very much appreciate the 'safety' of adding water to the pen body in case the flame gets out of control. Nobody laughs at third degree burns.

News: Open a locked door with a credit card

Locked out? Quit climbing through the windows or calling your ex to let you in. Get serious. Howcast says, do it yourself.

News: Rick Roll

Puzzled? We were too, when Bryan here at Wonder'HowTo punked us-- hiding this 80's music video in an email entitled 'WonderHowTo on Colbert Report'. Doh! Totally fell for it! Twice.

News: Hack a padlock with a soda can shim

Yes. It works.

News: Be the laziest person in the office

Hello New Year. Guess what? Vacation is almost over, and I don’t feel like going to work. The Puritans were so … 17th century. That was then. I am now. So, here is my resolution: I want to help usher in a new stage in American industry: enlightened entitlement. No more feeling guilty. I won’t sneak around. I just won’t work terribly hard. I am liberating the slacker within. To help ring in the New Year, join me in watching this inspirational video: How to be the laziest person in the office. ...