Hungry Hungry Hippos is a children's tabletop game first released in 1978 by Milton Bradley, in which two to four players each control a brightly colored plastic hippopotamus head mounted on a lever at the edge of a circular playing field. Marbles are scattered across the center of the board, and players rapidly press a lever to snap their hippo's mouth open and closed, attempting to gulp as many marbles as possible into their hippo's storage tray before the marbles run out. The player whose hippo has collected the most marbles when play stops wins the round. The game relies entirely on hand eye coordination and reaction speed rather than strategy, and its distinctive mechanical hippo components and simple frantic gameplay have made it one of the best known dexterity based children's games, remaining in continuous production with numerous themed and electronic editions since its introduction.
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1. Hungry Hungry Hippos (Wikipedia)
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Hungry Hungry Hippos (or Hungry Hippos in some UK editions) is a tabletop game made for 2-4 players, produced by Hasbro, under the brand of its subsidiary, Milton Bradley.
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The idea for the game was published in 1967 by toy inventor Fred Kroll and it was introduced in 1978.
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