Breakfast cereal, like petroleum jelly, is just one of those things that inspires pranks. There are the classic tricks, like switching the contents of two different boxes of cereal, or replacing the cereal in one box with rice or pasta or plastic bugs. This cereal prank is a bit flakier—actually, a lot flakier—since you’ll convince your victim to check every flake in the box for the “winning” piece. It’s guaranteed to make your victim switch to eating toast in the morning.
what you need
* Scissors
* A box of your victim’s favorite cereal
* Several bowls or one large bowl
* “Win $1,000” insert (print the download for this prank found here: workman.com/ebookdownloads)
what you do
THE SETUP
1 Carefully cut out the “Win $1,000” insert that you’ve printed.
2 In the morning, before breakfast, sneak the insert into a box of your victim’s preferred cereal.
PULL THE PRANK
1 When your victim pours a bowl of cereal and the paper falls out, play dumb but act curious. Ask him to read the paper out loud. It will instruct him to look for a flake with the winning number “7” printed on it to win $1,000. Then say, “Wow, cool! Let’s see if you won!” That should get your victim to start sifting through the cereal, looking for the numbered piece. Bring out extra bowls so your victim can fill each one and search the whole box of cereal.
2 When your victim gets to the end of the box, act sympathetic: “Too bad, I guess you didn’t get a box with the winning piece. You should get Mom or Dad to buy more.” If you want to be really sneaky, say, “Maybe you should check again. You might have missed it.”