Funny Pranks to Do to Someones House

No uni experience is complete without a good old prank war. Here's the best of the best...

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As a student, you're basically in the prime of your pranking life – you're living with your best mates, and never again will you get such an opportunity to wind them up, night and day.

Having multiple housemates means you're spoilt for choice when choosing who to target (if you can't choose, prank them all).

If you pull off some good pranks, they're bound to create some of your funniest uni memories – just remember to keep it safe...

Do you live with one of these nightmare flatmates? We've got tips on how to deal with them.

Funny pranks to do at home

Here are our best pranks to play on your housemates without ruining friendships:

1. Take the labels off their tins prank

   This prank is great because despite only taking a couple of minutes, it causes months of headaches: break into your flatmate's kitchen cupboard and peel all the labels off their tins.

   Suddenly their cupboard becomes a Russian roulette of foody surprises – will it be baked beans or custard?

   The only way they'll be able to find out is by opening the tins – meaning they'll have to use up whatever's in there pretty quickly. So simple but so effective.

   Elite prank tip: Add in other tins, such as pet food or something equally gross, and remove the labels from those too.

2. Wrapping paper on furniture prank

   While there are loads of different bedroom pranks around, these are probably some of the funniest. However, half the time they take a lot longer to create than they do for the victim to put right, so you're just pranking yourself really.

   You can fill their bedroom with hundreds of balloons (fill some with baked beans, talcum powder or custard for added 'pop' factor), cover the floor with millions of water-filled cups, or sellotape everything to the ceiling.

   The classic uni prank is the wrapping paper one, though. If you're going to do it, you have to do it properly and that means wrapping the floors, walls, ceiling, bed, furniture and anything else on show.

   You can use wrapping paper, tinfoil or newspaper but keep it consistent. If nothing else it's good practice for when Christmas rolls around...

3. Fake cracked computer screen desktop prank

   

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   As every laptop-loving student's absolute worst nightmare (aside from getting hacked...), a broken screen is guaranteed to send your victim into a momentary meltdown.

   Download an image like the ones here and set it as their desktop picture – make sure to hide desktop icons for the full effect!

4. Hide an alarm clock in their room

   Housemate not a morning person? Buy a mini alarm clock, set it for 5am, and hide it somewhere in their room.

   You can then enjoy sweet dreams of them stumbling around trying to find the source of noise in the early hours.

   Ramp up the evil genius factor by hiding multiple alarm clocks, with their alarms set an hour apart. Just be aware that depending on how soundproof your house is, you could annoy quite a few housemates with this one...

5. Mess with their social media

   Getting your hands on someone's Facebook profile if they accidentally leave themselves logged in is old news – you probably did it hundreds of times back in school.

   But avoid the obviously fake statuses confessing undying love for someone, and go more subtle for maximum impact.

   Try changing the date of their birthday – it's something they'll be unlikely to check themselves, and there's no way every one of their Facebook friends will know when it rea lly is. Watch as the birthday greetings start rolling in and your friend has to awkwardly reveal it's not actually their special day.

   If you do want to go down the status route, choose something believable. Announcing that they've got a place on a TV game show, for example, is bound to draw lots of attention and could feasibly be true.

   Change their name to something really weird – they'll have to wait 60 days to change it back!

   Or change their privacy settings to 'Only Me' – watch at how frustrated they get when they don't get any likes on their posts.

6. Autocorrect their words

   This one is best to play on more technologically-incompetent parents, but works well at uni too.

   You basically set autocorrect on their phone or laptop to replace certain words with another phrase.

   If you manage to get hold of their iPhone, go to Settings > General > Keyboard and click 'Text Replacement'. There, you can make words they type autocorrect to something totally different.

   You can do the same on Google docs or Microsoft too. In 'Tools' select 'Preferences' for Google docs or head to File > Options > Proofing > AutoCorrect Options in Microsoft Word.

   You'll then be given the option to enter a word that you'd like to be replaced with something different.

   If they're studying Medicine, something like replacing 'health' with 'butt' would work well (e.g. 'smoking is bad for your butt') or if they're doing a teaching course, switch 'education' with 'toilet paper'.

   This one is particularly effective if you're on the same course, as you'll get to watch the confusion/frustration/embarrassment unfold like the cruel master prankster you are.

7. Paint all their pens with nail varnish

   Clear nail varnish is a godsend when it comes to pranking – try lacquering up a bar of soap so it doesn't lather in the shower, for example.

   Our favourite prank in this department is the disabling pens prank. Go through whichever bag they take to uni and paint the ends of every pen and pencil they have in there with a dot of clear nail varnish.

   They'll have a hard time trying to take notes in lectures the next day.

8. Freeze their things or put them in jelly

   Taking inspiration from The Office here, steal something really important and either put it in a big blob of jelly or freeze it. It's easy to do, and super inconvenient for your victim.

   Try it with their keys, student card or (the classic) stapler. You could even lock up their rucksack with a padlock and freeze the key.

   Evil but funny.

Pranks can be great fun and create some really funny stories – but don't take them too far! Shared living can be tough anyway, never mind when you throw brutal pranks in the mix. Make sure you know where the line is, and never use them for bullying.

If your housemates are in the habit of doing any of these annoying pet peeves, they deserve a prank or two!

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