No annoyance at all! Anyway, I'm not so new in electronics, either (I'm still a student, 2nd year), but OK, in stupid talk: you want to
:evil: !! That's nasty [bleep]! But you asked, and I'll try to answer: To get a shock, a current must pass through you, which comes from the AAA. Just having the battery won't be a blast, so I think, I think you should have a capacitor (now that's some serious :twisted: shitty :twisted: component for blasts: you connect the capacitor (or 'Condensateur' in french), in parallel with the AAA, and wait (maybe few seconds, depending on the capacitance of the capacitor) to charge completly. If you'd like to have an idea, think of the time of full charge to be 5 * t, where t = R * C (you probably should have learnt that!). Now R is too small, because there's no resistance in the circuit -by the way, there should be, to protect the battery. Have your friend's arm touch the terminals of the capacitor (connect'em to long wires that you put on the victim's limbs) and the capacitor will discharge on them. Now
AT YOUR OWN RISK, you must choose what the capacitor would be. Have it as high as 1F, you'd kill your friend :shock: . Now, we don't want that, do we :? ?