The Best Prank Ever: Make All the Phones in Your Office Ring Simultaneously
Posted 03/17/08 at 12:49:52PM | by  

Will Smith

Ladies and gentlemen! Boys and girls! Children of all ages! Have we got a killer prank for you, perfect to pull on your co-workers. And, with April 1 just around the corner, you need to have a fresh stock of tricks in your bag.

It’s going to cost you ten bucks, but the outcome and hilarity are worth every penny. The first thing you need to do is install Skype and create an account, if you don’t already have one. Then, you’ll need to load up the account with cash--$10 is the minimum you can buy, but the actual prank won’t cost you a cent, and you’ll have ten bucks worth of Skype credit to make cheap long distance calls with when you’re done. You need to buy the Skype credit well in advance of the designated pranking hour, sometimes Skype takes a few hours to credit your account.


The hard part is collecting the numbers and typing them in to Skype. After that, it's nothing but laughs!

Skype lets you run a conference call with up to 24 people simultaneously, but the trick is that they can be a mixture of Skype accounts and phone numbers. To setup your call, you need to do is start a conference by clicking on the conference button on the main Contacts tab, then type in the numbers of the people you want to call. For maximum LOLs, I recommend making every phone in your work area ring—desk, fax, and personal cell numbers, if you have everyone’s numbers. When you press the Start Call button at the bottom of the window, all the phones in your office will ring at once. Caller ID will show Unknown Caller or 000-000-0000, and when people pick up, they’ll hear each other talking, but no other callers. The effect in and of itself is quite eerie and hilarious, but we've got three variants on the next page if you want to take this one step further over the line.

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Or, you can use google
Submitted by PC_destroyer on Mon, 2008-03-17 13:42.

Or, you can use a google grand central account and make the number you call foreward to all the office phones at once. but they stop ringing once someone picks up the phone.

Grand Central will only let
Submitted by willsmith on Mon, 2008-03-17 13:59.

Grand Central will only let you ring a small number of phones tho.

Skype goes to 24.

my skpye only lets me do 9
Submitted by fnordfnord on Wed, 2008-03-19 20:30.

my skpye only lets me do 9 numbers how are you getting 24?

Hrmm, I wonder if it
Submitted by willsmith on Wed, 2008-03-19 22:58.

Hrmm, I wonder if it requires dual-core to do 24. I don't know if I have any rigs around that aren't at least dual-core, but let me look around and explore.

Skype Pro
Submitted by gseaver4 on Wed, 2008-04-23 13:35.

Regular Skype limits conferences to the host + 9 users. I think that Skype Pro allows the host + 24.

Money
Submitted by samysr on Mon, 2008-03-17 15:42.

Why wont it cost me anything?

If you hang up before the
Submitted by willsmith on Mon, 2008-03-17 18:01.

If you hang up before the calls are connected, you won't be billed.

Money
Submitted by samysr on Mon, 2008-03-17 19:52.

Wait if i hang up, then it will stop calling them, and then thy cant chat together?



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