Sam Hollyday's News: People Reveal Their Best April Fool’s Day Pranks Just In Time To Inspire You

Every year, we make a vow to be the very best versions of ourselves, to stop being so naive and not let anyone get in our way! However, on April Fool’s Day, we seem to forget about these self-made promises and we simply revert back to gullible kids again become the victims of other people’s wicked ingenuity.

This year, don’t let that be the case. Catch out your cheeky colleagues as they try to plaster your entire desk in post-it notes, stitch up your friends before they can edit your Tinder profile and serve up a slice of piping hot revenge for your family members who have meddled with your food every April 1. It’s time to get even.

Need some inspiration? Here are the BEST April Fool’s Day pranks from the not-so-kind people of Reddit:

1. I eggspect this went down well

“Create a craigslist ad for ‘free chickens’. Create something along the lines of ‘had a storm and the coop was destroyed, chickens need a home blah blah’. List a coworker/friend’s name and cell phone number. Wait for ensuing chaos on said phone.” – @GimmedatPewPew

2. When pranks come true

“I called my mom on April fool’s and told her my girlfriend was pregnant. I laughed pretty hard, then she had a kid 8 months later. No joke.” – @Jaxx6911

3. Delivery driver drama

“My friends and I once called for pizza and when the guy showed up we had all the lights off and we were all wearing ski masks. My buddy answered the door and paid the guy real nonchalantly while me and the others walked around behind him with lamps and shit acting like we were robbing the place. Laughs were had by all.” – @nate92

4. Just in time for Easter

“Melting chocolate and then completely covering an egg with it. Tell people it’s a homemade caramel egg. Gets them everytime.” – @mopatar

5. The one that, quite literally, backfired

“I tried to get my brother [by putting plastic wrap over the top of the toilet seat] and forgot about it. My mum’s friend came to visit and pissed all over her jeans. She wasn’t happy.” – @VirginOnRidiculous

6. I have goat to do this

“I had posted on local classified sites, our newspaper, etc to call (this phone number) on (this date) and do your very best impression of a goat, and hang up. If yours was the best, you’d be entered to win. Didn’t say what you’d win. Just that you could win. The number was my husbands … The first call came in at 5:00am, an hour before his alarm. ‘BAAAAAAH!’ click. He got home that night and glared at me, ‘I don’t know how, but I know you did this.’ His voicemail was FULL of goat noises.” – @IRaiseCowsMoo

7. This one is nuts!

“I filled the window of my boss’s office with styrofoam peanuts. From the outside, it appeared the whole office was full. From the inside, you can see they were just held in place by bags.” – @dolfan650

If these pranks aren’t doing it for you, why not try this cheeky but cruel scratchcard trick…

8. Smoking kills

“One time I put extra strength Orajel (an over the counter mouth numbing cream for those who don’t know) on the filter side of my friend’s cigarettes. It was funny cause I could tell he could feel something was off but didn’t say anything to anyone until I burst out laughing.” – @meggs_w

9. Wicked wife

“When my wife and I were dating for about a year, April Fools came around. We have a good relationship with her parents. We all like each other very much. As a prank, I suggested to my wife that we tell her parents that she is pregnant. She told me it is a great idea. I come home from work a few hours later, and she calls her mom on speaker phone. ‘Hey mom, guess what. I’m pregnant!’ Her moms instant reaction was ‘Nick, you piece of shit. What the fuck is wrong with you?! How dare you do something like this’. Then her dad chimes in, ‘whats going on?’, ‘Jess is pregnant’, ‘I’m going to fucking kill him. NICK, you are fucking dead!’

Then their dog starts barking at me. I’m BEGGING my wife to tell them its a joke….she doesnt. She continues with ‘I thought you would be happy for us,’ WRONG. They continue screaming at me, making threats, calling me names, threatening to take me to court. I’m practically in tears because I was so close with them.Finally her mom says, ‘APRIL FOOLS! Jess called us an hour ago and told us what you guys were planning’.” – @frankrizzo24

10. This will make you feel dizzy

“One year, me and my younger brothers turned everything possible upside down in the kitchen after our parents had gone to bed. Cookbooks, food, the calendar, paintings, basically everything but appliances. It took my parents a few moments to actually figure out what we had done in the morning, but their reaction was priceless.” – @WelchCLAN

11. Tech tyrant

“My favorite prank is still the one when I opened up Microsoft Powerpoint on a friend’s computer, put a desktop screencap on the first slide, a picture of the blue screen of death on the second, full screened it and waited for him to click something.” – @MrEdBadger

12. Mayhem for mom

“I’m thinking of finding a recording of two guys having an NSA-like conversation and having my mother’s amazon echo play it at a random time during the day.” – @MRiley84

13. The opposite of helpful

“I sorted the keys on my boss’s keyboard alphabetically.” – sevarra

14. We bet he didn’t apPEAciate this

“For April fools I phoned my friend in maintenance, put on an accent and said there was a huge leek seeping out from behind the fridge. Lo and behold when he showed up he pulls the fridge out and has a massive vegetable waiting for him.” – @LennyMcTavish

15. Get creative

“My boss had one of those ink stamps made of his signature so that I could ‘sign’ documents when he was out of the office. One April Fools, I wrote this letter to another attorney: ‘Dear So and So: You win. We give up. Your client can have the house, the car, the bank account and even the dog. We would rather our client starve to death than to sacrifice another minute to your monumental ego.’ Then I ‘signed’ it with the ink stamp and marked it ‘Faxed’ and put it on his chair with the rest of his mail. When he returned to the office, I said nothing. A few minutes after he arrived I heard a sort of strangled, choking sound from his office followed by a ‘Maxwyfe, can you come in here, please?’ – @Maxwyfe

16. A dark sense of humor

“Get a grim reaper costume and a mini whiteboard, write some generic last name on it (Wilson, Ramirez, etc), put on the Death costume and wait at the arrivals terminal at the airport, next to all the town car drivers.” – @KitchenMatches

17. Old but gold

“Putting office supplies in jello never gets old. Well… I’m sure it does for the people I do it to. Not for me though.”– @Anonymous

18. Warning: could end with a night in a jail cell

“Back in high school, my friends and I would go through the fast food drive-thru. There’d be the driver, passenger and one person in the trunk. As we got up to the window, the guy in the trunk (who was in only his boxers and had his arms and mouth duct taped) would hop out and start running away. The person at the drive thru would usually freak out and say something like ‘Holy shit! That guy just came from your trunk!’ The driver would say something along the lines of ‘What the fuck? He’s getting away!’ and he’d peel out and chase after him. High school was an interesting time in my life.” – @HSG_messi

19. Wrong day to play

“I convinced my cousin that April Fools Day had been moved up to March 25th so it wouldn’t interfere with Easter. He pranked people all day long, and they all just thought he was an immature dick. He was 17 at the time.” – @crimsonandred88

20. Saving the best til last…

“There was a competition running by Tim Tam (a very popular chocolate biscuit in Australia) where they were giving away a weekly prize of either a year’s worth of Tim Tams or $20000 worth of travel vouchers. To enter the competition, you had to text in a special code found on the inside of the packet. The terms and conditions said that you needed the packet as proof of purchase in order to win the prize.

I bought Tim Tams every time they were on special and entered the competition about a dozen times. I kept the empty packets on our bench behind our coffee maker. I came home from work one day and the packets were gone. I asked my husband where they were and he said he’d thrown them out. ‘But what if we win?!’ I whined. ‘We won’t win,’ he scoffed.

I went to work and told my colleague about this and we hatched a plan (my husband and this colleague had never met). A couple of weeks later, my colleague phoned my husband on a Friday afternoon and pretended to be from Tim Tam. After letting him know he was the lucky winner she said, ‘Now, all you’ll need to do to redeem your prize is provide proof that you purchased the packet with the code XXXXXXXXXX.’ My husband lied and said he thought we’d ‘lost’ the packet and asked if could he have some time to find it.

Seconds after they’d hung up, my phone rang. It was my husband. ‘Don’t be angry,’ he started, ‘but we won the Tim Tam competition.’ I started screaming in excitement and jumping around. He was trying to interrupt me and I was cheering etc. Then he told me about needing the packets to win to which I was like, ‘BABE! I told you not to throw them out!! You better find it!!’ etc etc. We ended the conversation with him apologizing profusely and promising that he would find the packets.

We hung up the phone and I felt guilty within minutes, knowing how stressed my husband would be. I tried calling him back but couldn’t get on to him. I called and called for about half an hour before I finally got on to him and admitted that it was a prank. The phone went silent.’Do you know what I have been doing for the last half hour? I have been WADING THROUGH OUR GARBAGE BIN trying to find those f***ing packets!’.” – @quizoola