How to Play Hungry Hungry Hippos

Choose a hippo and place five marbles into your marble release area beside your hungry hippo. Each hippo has a name and color. Happy, Henry, Homer and Harry are pink, orange, green and yellow.

One player releases one marble by pressing down on the marble release lever. Once the marble is in the board's center, all players try to make their hippos munch it by pressing down on their hippo's tail until someone's hippo captures it.

Move in a clockwise direction to the next player, who then releases one marble. All players repeat the process.

Continue taking turns releasing one marble at a time until all marbles are gone. Each player then counts her marbles and the player with the most wins the game.

Change the way to play for more advanced fun. All players release all of their marbles at the same time and try to munch as many as possible at the same time. After all marbles are gone, count them up, and the one with the most wins.