List of practical joke topics

This is a list of practical joke topics (also known as a prank, gag, jape, or shenanigan) which are mischievous tricks or jokes played on someone, typically causing the victim to experience embarrassment, perplexity, confusion, or discomfort.

Practical jokes differ from confidence tricks or hoaxes in that the victim finds out, or is let in on the joke, rather than being fooled into handing over money or other valuables. Practical jokes or pranks are generally lighthearted, reversible and non-permanent, and aim to make the victim feel foolish or victimised to a degree, but may also involve cruelty and become a form of bullying if performed without appropriate finesse.

0–9

 * 2004 Harvard–Yale prank

A

 * Alhokm Baad Almozawla
 * April Fools' Day
 * List of April Fools' Day jokes

B

 * Berners Street hoax
 * Bingo Shooting Device
 * Black fax

C

 * Caltech–MIT rivalry
 * Candid Camera
 * Capping stunt
 * Josiah S. Carberry
 * Chewing gum bug
 * Chinese finger trap
 * Chinese fire drill
 * Confetti eggs/cascerones
 * Culture jamming

D

 * Devil's Night
 * Devious licks
 * Dribble glass
 * Dutch oven

E

 * Egging
 * Email spoofing
 * Exploding cigar

F

 * Fake denominations of United States currency
 * Fake vomit
 * Father Pat Noise
 * Flagging

G

 * Gag name
 * Glitter bombing
 * Googly eyes
 * Golden rivet
 * Great Rose Bowl Hoax
 * Great Stork Derby
 * Groucho glasses

H

 * Hacks at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 * Harisen
 * Henryk Batuta hoax
 * Hot foot

I

 * Indian burn
 * Itching powder

J

 * Joy buzzer

K

 * Kancho
 * Kick me note
 * Knock, Knock, Ginger

L

 * Lace card
 * Latex mask
 * List of frivolous political parties
 * List of Google April Fools' Day jokes
 * List of Google Easter eggs

M

 * Milkshaking
 * Mischief Night
 * Mooning
 * Muck-up day

N



 * No soap radio
 * Non-human electoral candidates
 * Noogie

P

 * Pantsing
 * Panty raid
 * Penny under the sink
 * Phoenix Five (prank)
 * Pieing
 * List of people who have been pied
 * Pigasus (politics)
 * Plate lifter
 * Practical joke device
 * Prank call
 * Pranknet
 * Punk'd
 * Pythagorean cup
 * Pythagorean cup

Q

 * ¡Qué Locura!

R

 * Rickrolling
 * Rutgers–Princeton Cannon War

S



 * Saluting trap
 * Senior prank
 * Shaft passer
 * Shanghai Fugu Agreement
 * Shocking gum
 * Shoe-lacing
 * Skyhook (cable)
 * Snake nut can
 * Sneezing powder
 * Snipe hunt
 * Spaghetti Tree Hoax
 * Spit ball shooting
 * Stink bomb
 * Student prank
 * Streaking
 * Swirly

T

 * Taro Tsujimoto hoax
 * The Jerky Boys
 * Toilet papering
 * Towel snap
 * Travelling gnome prank
 * Trick candles
 * Tube Bar prank calls
 * Tickling

U

 * Kazuo Uzuki

V

 * Valentine Phantom

W

 * Wedgie
 * Wet willy
 * Who Gets the Last Laugh? (TV series)
 * Whoopee cushion
 * Windy City Heat

X

 * X-ray specs