What is the Board Game Hungry Hungry Hippos?

Series Summary

The game Hungry Hungry Hippos, when played at full fury, might just be the loudest board game ever invented. Introduced in 1978 by Milton Bradley's Hasbro division, the game is aimed at children aged 3 to 6 years, but is enjoyed by anyone who can appreciate the rhythmically random, speed-fueled noise of hard plastic ravenous hippo mouths banging against a playing surface resembling an experimental drum design. In addition to teaching the value of extreme greed and reckless consumption, Hungry Hungry Hippos teaches children that random luck often brings as much success as skill or a carefully planned strategy.

In this series of free instructional videos you'll get expert advice on how to play Hungry Hungry Hippos. Melissa Schenk demonstrates all aspects of the game, including the rules and object of the game (the player with the most marbles wins.) She also shows how to speed up the game to an almost incomprehensible pace, where players have no choice but to lose themselves in the frantic feeding frenzy of shameless, unbound gluttony. The rules of the jungle are law here, and one must devour or be devoured whole. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to win this game, just a dedicated commitment to satisfying that insatiable lust for more marbles.

Video Transcript

"Hi my name is Melissa Schenk and on behalf of Expert Village today we are going to learn some basic tips for playing the board game Hungry Hungry Hippos it is the frantic munching game and coming up next the first clip that we are going to talk about is actually the contents of the game and suitable ages for playing the game. Now you notice first on the front of the box the games says suitable for kids age four and up but actually it is for plus. So this is not just necessarily just a game for kids. Adults could have fun playing this game to and Hungry Hungry Hippo is suitable for two to four players. Now lets talk about the contents there is a couple of different things that would come in the box of course the game base itself and also inside you'll notice the marble on the board. It comes with 20 marbles and also a label sheet. Now the label sheet has you have to set your up slightly you have little eyes for your hungry hippos and also each of these hungry hippos has a name. You would notice in the front there Harry and we got Henry and in pink we have happy and finally in green we have Homer. Now you can name each one that you want of course. Now that we reviewed the content of the board of the game and also suitable ages lets now have a look at the actually object of the game. "