The best prank I was ever part of was not to play one at all. We told one kid who had a habit of really going overboard on pranks that this week we were going to get revenge. We had the prank to end all pranks planned and he was gonna wish he'd never messed with any of us! No hints, he'd find out soon enough. We then took shifts. Walking by his tent late at night, letting him ALMOST catch us putting something in his dinner or his sleeping bag or whatever. He knew whatever we had planned was gonna be BIG and he was not gonna let it happen! There were 7 or 8 of us invoved and only one of him. We could go about our business, sleep, eat, whatever. He had to be on his guard around the clock. After a week of getting nearly no sleep, jumping at shadows, sniffing his food, and generally living in fear, it never occured to him that we had gotten him worse than if we had played a prank. It was like a good ghost story where the real fear wasn't the "jump", so much as the tension leading up to it!

Rich