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Smosh Games makes memory harder with identical card backs

Courtney Miller, Courtney Theophin, Trevor and Chanse turn That's Not A Hat into a million-view exercise in remembering and bluffing.

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That's Not A Hat: HARD MODE

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0:00Courtney Miller introduces a harder version of That's Not A Hat.
1:30Damien presents a sponsored mobile-game segment.
3:26Players reveal their starting objects, then turn the cards face down.
4:26Cards circulate as players name objects, bluff and decide whether to challenge each other.
15:58The first round's deciding challenge arrives.
16:38Anders introduces identical green card backs for an even harder round.

Trevor announces a fresh approach: "I'm turning over a new leaf. I'm going to be normal, fun Trevor." Then Smosh Games gives him a table full of face-down objects to remember, and three other players with equally fragile certainty.

"That's Not A Hat: HARD MODE" is the most watched of the channel's five new uploads, passing a million views. Courtney Miller, Courtney Theophin, Trevor and Chanse pass cards while declaring what they supposedly contain. Remembering the object is only half the problem: deciding whether to believe the person handing it over is the other half. After the first round, Anders brings in cards with identical green backs, removing another useful visual clue. The episode also includes a sponsored mobile-game segment presented by Damien.

Viewers have a practical production request: a glass table with a camera underneath, so they can keep track when the players cannot. Others focus on Trevor and Courtney Theophin's classroom-giggling chemistry, or describe the strange way a deception game becomes a collective effort to stay oriented.

The week's strongest momentum now belongs to "Our First Time Playing Resident Evil 9 (Part 1 & 2)," at roughly 811,000 views. Smosh Games says its original first installment was age restricted, so it made changes and combined it with part two. That second section begins at 1:38:06. "HEAR HER OUT" is also gathering views faster than the card-game episode, though it has only just arrived.

Subscribers held steady over seven days, while daily viewing is a little below the channel's usual pace. Among nearby variety-gaming channels, SMii7Y had a particularly active week with subscriber growth and elevated daily views; Daz Games was closer to its usual viewing rhythm. Smosh Games' own week stretched from the Werewolf trailer to survival horror, but its largest new audience gathered around a table of increasingly unreliable gifts.

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What viewers say

Desperately need them to play this on a glass table with a camera underneath
@heyimgrace4213See it on YouTube
It's supposed to be a competitive, deception game, but it always ends up a game where everyone bands together to keep from going insane.
@DoomPlagueSee it on YouTube
my favorite part of these videos is when i realize halfway through that i have free will and dont HAVE to follow along. i can just enjoy the video.
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the “giggly boys sitting next to each other in class” energy that trevor and courtney t have in this video is SO fun
@1enaverseSee it on YouTube
trevor and courtney in this video really feel like spongebob and patrick giggling about what’s funnier than 24…..
@renesbianSee it on YouTube
Courtney and Trevor would NEVER be allowed to sit together in class 😭😭
@amg.fineartSee it on YouTube
Courtney T's little dramatic monologues to himself when he forgets are very important to me
@eldritchteoSee it on YouTube
we DESPERATELY need a gentleman's that's not a hat version please !!
@caylathieroff7602See it on YouTube
Courtney T looking at the camera when he forgets kills me
@GarishthoughtsSee it on YouTube
chanse’s sweatband reveal was insane LMAO
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