The 8 Most Common Types of April Fools' Day Pranks

The 8 Most Common Types of April Fools' Day Pranks

If you're a real kook, you've been planning your April Fools' Day prank for months. But if you're a normal person like the rest of us, you're like, "Wait it's April 1st already? What am I gonna do?"

Here are the eight most common pranks people pull on April Fools' Day, according to a new survey. You can either use these to plan your last-minute prank, or to know what you should watch out for . . .

1. Mind game pranks, like rearranging someone's furniture and pretending nothing looks out of the ordinary.

2. Scare tactics, like putting a fake spider on a person's chair.

3. Lying pranks, like telling your significant other you're pregnant.

4. A prank phone call.

5. A food-related prank, like toothpaste in an Oreo.

6. A "make things inaccessible" prank, like putting a stapler in Jell-O.

7. An elaborate prank that you film for YouTube.

8. A "toilet humor" prank, like cellophane on a toilet seat or putting fake poop in someone's coffee. 

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