Build Anywhere Glitch
This is probably the most famous and important glitch. It is very easy to do and the effect can totally change the outcome of the game. Thanks to AreaStarcraft for all the pictures!

1. Find a space between 2 cliff ledges. An example is this one shown here which is at the bottom right base of Big Game Hunters.

2. Send a worker into that space.

3. Take another worker and right click the first worker. The second one should be on top of the first one, trapping him, like this:

4. Take the first worker, and right click on the ledge at the left of him. Do this until he is facing to the right, as shown here:

5. Now you take the first worker and try to build a building anywhere on the map. You should be able to build anywhere in your vision or fog of war. The building will start building all by itself, like this!

6. Your worker (in this case an SCV) will fly to the building spot, but he doesn't need to be there for the structure to finish building.

This will work for Terran, Zerg, and sometime Protoss. Zerg results are a little different. First of all, with Zerg and Terran, you can build a building ANYWHERE in your fog of war, including right on top of other buildings! Way cool! Also, when you start building something with this glitch, the Drone will disappear (Unlike SCVs who glide over)!

Also, your worker doesn't necessarily have to be stuck between two cliff ledges. As long as he is stuck anywhere (between buildings, for example), this glitch will work.
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Critter Trick
A VERY easy and cheap way to see your opponent's base!

This is very simple to do...all it requires is a map with critters (preferably Kakarus because they fly) and you being Zerg. Get a Queen with 75 energy and look for a critter. Parasite the thing, and you can see what it sees! Once the critter walks (or flies) into your opponent's base, enjoy the view! This is really cool because your opponent will not automatically attack the critter! This is because it's a neutral unit! This neat little trick will help A LOT in a game.

Note: This will not work very well against comps because comps always kill critters. But most humans just ignore them! :)
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Critter Trick 2
Another cheap way to spy on your opponents with critters.

In this trick, you need to be Protoss. Get some High Templars with hallucination and hallucinate a critter. This will create 2 copies of it which you can control. Bring them to your opponents base and spy! But do it quickly because hallucination only lasts about 1 minute. If you don't want your critter to disappear, just take a Dark Archon and mind control it! Either way, the critter will look realistic because if you do not give it any commands, it will move by itself like it would if it was neutral. The upside of this trick over the Parasite one is that you can control the critter. The downside is that the enemy will automatically attack it when they see it, since the critter is under your control.
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Critter Explosion
This is a really cool trick to make a critter go boom! I always wanted to put it on my site but kept forgeting to...thanks to {CC}Steven for sending me this trick. Ok, here's what you do. Look for a critter and left-click it. It should make a sound (like all other units when you click on them). Do this 14 times IN A ROW. Each time you click the critter needs to make a sound. So if you click on it half a second after you clicked on it before, it won't make a sound and the click won't count. After having it make 14 sounds in a row, it should blow up like a nuke!
NOTE: Does not do damage and does not work on B.net :(
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Invincible Tank Trick
This trick is used to make your siege tank have the hit points of a building! To do this, first hotkey a tank, and put it next to a building that is capable of flying. Lift off the building, and land it. While it's landing, get your tank, move it under the landing building, and siege it. You must do this VERY QUICKLY. The tank will now have the life of the building and be invincible to melee units! With practice, you can get 5+ tanks hiding under 1 building!
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Invincible Lurker Trick
This is the same thing as the "Invincible" Tank Glitch except the flying building can only be an Infested Command Center, and instead of sieging a tank, you burrow the Lurker.

Also:
If you make a ring of buildings and pack them fairly tight together and leave about say... 3x3 box in the middle you can drop a few hydras in there and lurker morph them, right when they come out you burrow them and you have lurkers under a building, this works very well with sunken colonies and spore colonies because it protects them from melee attacks and you dont have to worry as much against detection....
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Invisible Supply Depot
If you are a newbie or you know you're gonna lose, and your terran...
when you get money to spare send an SCV behind a mineral patch and build a supply depot right when he starts building it, click on the SCV (not the supply depot) and press cancel. It will almost look as if it werent there. Then when you lose all your buildings (except the supply depot), your opponent will think the game is messed up and leave. You should probably build a few all around the map. Try to build one behind your enemies minerals.

Stinky adds:
If your opponent looks at the mini-map, he will see the big fat building color block. So prey your opponent is dumb enough to ignore the mini-map.
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Lazy Upgrade Trick
First get a dark archon then you reserch mind control and mind control a protoss unit and hope they have an upgrade done on that unit then look at your building that can upgrade that upgrade and it will be done for you without using money or time, only mana.
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Drone Trick
Build past the underling supply of your first Overlord with this neat trick!

Build drones until your control is 9/9. Take your 9th drone and morph him into a cheap building, like an extractor or me (creep colony). When it starts morphing, your control will be 8/9, so you can build another drone. Once you start building that drone, you can cancel the cheap building. Your control will be 10/9 and you will also get extra money!

Stinky adds:
If you think 1 drone past your first overlord, here's an even better one. If you've got the hatcheries for it, you can make nearly any number past your limit, even beyond 200. If you've got 3 hatcheries, simply create 9 creep colonies, start the eggs, than cancel the colonies. It's as simple as that. Their seems to be no real limit, just how many leaches you can get.
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Burrowed Extractor (?) Glitch
First, you need to get the ability to burrow. Afterwards, get a drone and press burrow then quickly press the button to make a basic building (press U, B). It'll show that you can make an extractor, but you can't really do that. Wierd, huh?
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White Commands Glitch
Select a building that can build add-ons like a Starport (without it's addon).Press L and C at the sametime. If done correctly, you don't need to select the target of where to build the addon and the addon command is white at the bottom right corner of your screen. You can do this to some other buildings and other commands such as L ; R (rally command would be white).
Stinky adds: All this glitch does is make the command change color from yellow to white.
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Hear your own music trick
Turn off music in the game. To do that: Play any match/campaign and go to Menu->Options->Sound and then drag the yellow dot all the way to the left on the integer line below the word "Music Volume" or just push CTRL+M at anywhere in the game besides the Menu screen only if music from the CD is still playing. Push ALT+TAB and open a .mid player/Napser/any program that opens a music for you to hear/or a music from a webpage. When the music is playing,push and hold ALT+TAB.Make sure the outline box is on Star Craft icon. If not, continue to hold ALT but let go TAB and keep pressing Tap until the box is over the Star Craft icon. Finally,let go of ALT and you will be back on Star Craft with the music you open at first being played.
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Cancel = Kill Trick
When you are building a unit, just before and I mean right before it is done, cancel it and you will the see the unit die. This works for all races but the zerg just displays the egg die instead of the unit.
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Flying Drone Trick
This is a cool trick that lets you view a flying drone. Just tell a drone to build a creep colony and right when it is about to morph, hit print screen (use print screen button on keyboard, picture is saved in your starcraft directory as a picture file) If you do it at the right time your drone will clearly appear to be in the air and will even have a shadow.
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Lag Reduction Trick
Having too much lag on bnet? Try this...Turn starcraft completely off and go into the SC directory on your comp. Find a file called bncache.dat or just bncache. Delete this file. I guess its a cache of all games you play on bnet and it gets pretty big in size. Its best to delete it about every 25 games. You should now experience less lag when joining games.
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Irradiated Zerg Building Glitch
Well this is a neat little glitch I found. To use it, make a ums map where your drones have like 100 hp (or something like that) and you have a science vessel with irradiate to start out with. Iradiate the drone and make a building from it as fast as you can. The building will stay iradiated for about a minute or so even though the drone is gone now! The building isn't damaged but I think any organic units that get close to it are.
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Buildings On Water Glitch
In order to use do this funny glitch you must download winzip to ur computer the h2k mineral program with special features like StarCraft and StarEdit click StarEdit and click a StarEdit icon again and it will carry you to starcraft campaign editor then this works well if your trying to make a mission mode map then select a Command Center Hatchery Lair Hive or Nexus or any building in the whole game after done add water a little wide space of water and then put any building u want on the water it will have a green target saying you can build that there if ur going for a use map settings map of ur own or mission mode put the building in the water, cool huh?
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Nuke Defense Trick
If a small group of your units have been chosen for a tareted nuke, and you can't see where it's coming from, simply use statis field with an arbiter and the covered untits won't even be scratched.
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Extra BCs/Carrier Trick
1) You need an ally who is Terran
2) Ask your ally to get tons of ghosts with lockdown
3) Build up your squad of bcs or carriers (i like bcs more) and send it to his base or he send his ghosts to your base
4) Ask him to lockdown your bcs. Notice that your supply will go down.
5) Start building more bcs before the lockdown wears off on your 1st squad
6) Have fun killing ur opponent(s)

Stinky's Note: Locking down your own BCs will not work.
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