Hungry Hippos

Chomping tabletop competition

Hungry Hungry Hippos is a children's tabletop game where players rapidly press levers to make plastic hippo heads gobble up marbles from a shared pool.

The frantic, competitive gameplay has made it a staple of family game nights since the 1970s.

It was chaos—like a game of Hungry Hungry Hippos.

Related

chomp chomp · Hasbro · feeding · gobbling · snapping · plastic · colorful · competition · frantic · kids · kids game · party · game night · chomp · mouths · swallowing · grabbing · toy

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Opposites
gameplay mechanics

Hungry HipposGo

Territory-capturing board game

Stratego · Settlers of Catan · Dungeons & Dragons · Ticket to Ride · Scrabble

player engagement style

Hungry HipposGo

Territory-capturing board game

solitaire · jigsaw puzzles · Sudoku · crossword puzzles · Mahjong

Family

hungry, hunger, hungrily, hungers, hungered, hungering, hippo, hippos, hippopotamus

Familiarity
Top 200,000
Profile
Known to kids · Timeless · Concrete · Positive · Everyday, not technical · Rated G