21 Easy, Hilarious April Fools' Pranks

Ready for the best April Fools' Day ever? Show off your sleuthing style with these techie, geeky ideas that'll confuse the heck out of your co-workers, friends, significant others, parents — you name it. And if this year is anything like years before, there will be tons of pranks on the web that you can send, too.

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Cover the mouse laser with a Post-It.

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Please oh please re-create this incredible spider phone prank.

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Try one of these brilliant autocorrect pranks, like creating a shortcut on your mom's phone so every time she types "dirty clothes," it says "acid."

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Nicolas Cage-ify the photocopy machine.

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Use a Chrome extension that turns webpages upside down.

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Pull that infamous cat facts prank on someone with this Cat Facts app.

Hide creepy Lego figurines throughout someone's place.

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Hack the printer to say something funny.

Glue googly eyes on the mouse.

Drizzle onions in caramel sauce.

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Get friends to accidentally send you a selfie with this hilarious picture trick.

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Alphabetize a keyboard.

Block their desk with a bunch of balloons.

Change the WiFi name to something creepy.

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Install the blue screen of death screensaver.

Grow a garden in your co-worker's keyboard.

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Cover a keyboard with weird ransom-note decals.

Change the look of your friend's app icons so that she gets superconfused. Here's how.

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Start early enough and you can make a video like this one that captures selfie expressions on video instead of photos.