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Smart Fellas
Depth · what it can open●○○○1 — informational
Holding · facilitation1 — host
Trust · group readiness★any
Disclosure · what is sharednone
A counting game in which the phrase changes on threes and multiples of three — 'one smart fella he felt smart', '3 smart fellas they all felt smart' — and any error puts you out and restarts the round. The phrase is engineered to become a tongue twister at speed.
Hold with care
- Players are eliminated on a mistake and the round restarts
- The phrase is designed to trip into a spoonerism the source spells out; whether that is funny or crude is a judgement about the group
Practical
- Time
- — min
- Group
- ?–∞ · large-group
- Settings
- in-person
- Mechanisms
- attention-training, behavioral-rehearsal
- Change scope
- state · repeatable
Instructions
- Where
- improvencyclopedia.org/games/Smart_Fellas.html — Improv Encyclopedia, open
- Availability
- Open online — published at the link, free to read
Source link checked 1 Sep 2026 — reachable
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Origin
Unattributed; compiled by Improv Encyclopedia — Improvisational theatre
In this directory via Improv Encyclopedia
status: checked · added 2026-08-31