Since the dawn of time, humans have hunted animals, gathered fruits, and pranked their best friends. There was a time when the only way to annoy a buddy was with classic prank phone calls. It’s now evolved to sending hilarious text pranks to friends and family members. Nowadays, all it takes to pull off a funny text prank is a cell phone, texting, a dark sense of humor, and an unsuspecting friend. 

13 Hilarious Text Pranks To Try on Your Friends

1. Text Song Lyrics

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A good April Fools’ Day prank is to text a friend song lyrics. However, not any song lyrics will do. The text prank works best when messaging a friend lyrics to Adele’s classic Hello. The prank also works with an ex-girlfriend or ex-boyfriend. Just be careful. It could open up a can of worms. 

2. Pretend To Be Baskin Robbins

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Spam messages are one of the most irritating texts to receive. Therefore, it makes the perfect text prank to send to a friend or family member. The prankster usually poses as a famous brand, such as Baskin Robbins, and promises to provide ice cream facts every hour to the recipient. 

3. Booking a Fake Rock Band

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It’s always a risk putting personal information on the web. In Textastrophe: A Collection of Hilariously Catastrophic Text Pranks, a person placed an ad looking to book a bluegrass band. An anonymous person responded with a fake text message inquiring about the gig leading them down a rabbit hole. Anybody could respond, even a prankster with too much time on their hands.

4. Messing With Text Replacement

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Changing the shortcuts on a friend’s phone is a popular prank. The trick is to force the shortcut to change a common word into something funny, an offensive joke, or the lyrics to Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up. When in doubt, always go with Rick Astley.