One thing I have loved all my life, is playing games. I used to love playing a variety of games with my family as I was growing up. When I became a parent, I used to love nothing more than playing games with my kids as well. This was something we all loved.
Quite often my Daughter would come to me with a game in hand, asking if we can play a game. I always found it a time to sit, chat and laugh together.
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Hungry Hippos
One game that could always guarantee lots of laughs and comeptitiveness was hungry hippos. We also had tears if the kids were left to play it on their own though. But with two older brothers and a younger sister this was bound to happen.
Playing the game
We must have all played Hungry Hippos at some point, but for those unfamiliar with the game here is how you play it.
- There are 4 hippo heas red, yellow, green and blue
- Each player chooses which colour head they want to be
- 20 marbles are dropped into the centre of the board at the start of the game
- each player has to use there hippo head to try to eat as many of the marbles as they can
- The marbles are red apart from one golden marble
- The player with the most point wins.
Hungry Hippos is such a fun and simple game idea, but one that gives endless fun especially to younger children.
The Giveaway
If you would like to join in with the fun, and grab yourself your own Hungry Hippos game. I have one game to give away to one of my readers. See below on how to enter
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225 comments
This would be great fun to play with the kids
I would love to play this with my son!
My favourite was a game called 13 dead end drive, it would take a while to set up, it was like a mini cardboard house, lots of pieces, me and my brothers would spend hours playing.
I loved Risk!
I always loved monopoly
remember this game a few years ago now fabtastic
my fav game when I was younger was connect 4
mine was Frustration, loved the dice popper in the middle!
Hungry Hippos
I used to enjoy all of the classics like Operation, Monopoly and Scrabble.
Cluedo was my fave as a child!
Has to be Hungry Hippos, used to love playing this when I was a kid.
My fav was guess who
Buckaroo
Monopoly has always been a favourite in our house
my favourite game was Ludo
My favourite game was Mousetrap
Monopoly!
I always liked the crocodile dentist
Ludo is our favourite
I always wanted this and never got it! My favourite was Screwball Scramble
I always wanted this game as a child but never did. It reminds me of wet play days at school.
I loved Operation.
Mouse trap was always my favourite
Monopoly has always been my fav
I loved operation as a kid and I’ve kept it after 30 years thought not sure it still works
Snakes and Ladders is always a favourite on our house
We loved Operation.
i always loved game of life
Always loved connect 4!
still is! The Pillars of the Earth
Guess Who
Monopoly and Pay Day. Although Snakes And Ladders is always a favourite too. Thanks for the chance.
Scrabble
I have always been a fan of old-fashioned Snakes and Ladders but so many wonderful games like this available now that we are all spoilt for choice.
My favourite game was mouse trap (the old version not the rubbish new version)
Monopoly is a favourite in our home
Mousetrap
Cluedo was my favourite.
King of Tokyo is one of my favourites to play.
I loved guess who as a child
I loved operation when I was little!
I used to love playing Scattergories!
I always liked kerplunk
We love a game of Snakes and Ladders
I always loved Monopoly and Cluedo when I was a child.
When i was a child, it used to be Mousetrap, loved that game
What was your favourite game? . . . Scrabble and l still love it
I love playing frustration, as do all the kids
Mine is still Monopoly and now im the boss of the family i am always the banker!!
Always loved Monopoly
Mine is scrabble. Thanks for the chance to win, my children would love this.
Greedy Green Frog!
Scrabble!
When I was young it was Ker-plunk.
I loved mouse trap when I was little
snakes and ladders
Mouse trap
I had a game called downfall and you had to get the little pieces from the top to the bottom before the person on the other side.
Must be The game of life
Scrabble
I loved Heroquest & Mousetrap!
I used to love operation
My favourite game was Kerplunk! Me and my brother would play it all the time!
As a family we used to enjoy playing Frustration
my favourite growing up was Mouse Trap
cluedo – i always loved guessing !
I loved mousetrap!
I always loved monopoly, we still play it as a family all the time!
Cluedo and I still love it!
It has made me very nostalgic reading all the comments! The Buzz Wire Game used to be my favourite and make me break out into a sweat in my attempts to beat my brother. My hand was never steady enough. That game was tense!
I think the kerplunk was my favourite though was also fond of mouse trap, battleships, connect 4 and buckaroo. Also such classic and iconic games from my childhood.
love monopoly although recently discovered ( and love ) Labyrinth
Snakes and ladders! My 3 would love a hungry hippos game!
Hungry hippos is one I’d love to play with my kids
we used to play lots of card games when we were little with buttons for money
Mouse Trap!
Pop up pirate, it was so much fun ❤️
Great game to play, but years ago I used to love Monopoly
We used to play snakes & ladders when we were small & I remember playing Monopoly,scrabble & cluedo when we were older.
This game would bring back lots of my own childhood memories. I’d love to play this with my children
Loved Monolpoly as I liked to bankrupt my family MEMBERS
Lovely Giveaway, Goodluck all!
I loved buckaroo xx
Love Hippos, great memories when I was younger. But my favourite game was Holiday.
It was snakes and ladders
I used to love this game called ‘escalado’ it was a horse racing game and you had to turn a handle to make the horses run. It shook the mat and you could bet on which one would win.
Used to play it with my grandparents at Christmas
I’ve never met a child or adult that doesn’t love this silly game !
As a child it was Operation
Ohh my god I loved this game as a kid!!! Completely forgot about Hungry Hippos, my 4 year old would absolutely love this haha! Besides this game, I really loved mouse trap and penguin trap (you hit the ice blocks with a hammer individually to knock them out). Me and my grandad played that all the time
Aaaaawww classic family fun !
I loved kerplunk 🙂
I used to love Kerplunk!
I loved mouse trap even though it took approximately 4days to set it up! Ha
I love monopoly.
i loved perfection
Hungry Hippos
My favourite game as a child was Monopoly. Ihaven’t got the patience for the long game now!
We loved the Game of life
We loved hungry hippos when we were kids! We also loved frustration
I love this game
Operation
As a child I liked scrabble best.
Pictionary!! So many fun hours trying to draw random things
We loved Mouse trap!
Connect 4 was my favourite game
Guess Who!
Battleships!
It really is true, isn’t it? It’s usually the very simplest ideas that turn out to be the most appealing and popular. The name of the game itself has a name a pleasing universality…in our own families we all have ‘hungry hippos’ of our own who we can recognise. I have such affection for this little game – even the older kids still enjoy playing it, though they might protest otherwise!
Downfall. It was blue with white wheels on it and you had to get your tokens from the top to the bottom first. I loved it
I used to love playing Tiddly Winks would spend hours trying to get them in the cup
Monopoly –i was unbeaten for years
Game of Life
Monopoly, we used to keep the game going throughout the school hoidays
I used to like pop up pirate and buckaroo, which were very similar in terms of adrenaline over whether it would pop up / buck
Snakes and ladders.
I loved Luda and still do
Great for rainy day
I’ve always loved Ludo – my kids do now as well
Definitely Mouse Trap (although it took forever to set up).
I liked hungry hippos but I always used to lose to my big brother. (I think he always cheated.) I used to get my own back in scrabble because I’ve always loved word games.
We love Cluedo
Any noisy game and my son would love it.
Junior Cluedo 🙂
My favourite game was connect 4 when I was younger.
Monopoly was and still is my favorite game
We used to love playing frustration when I was little. My daughter also now loves it, and is a fan of lots of games especially fun ones like hungry hippos.
game of life
When I was little I loved a game you cant get now called Auction
I uaed to love playing monopoly and game.of.life when i was younger!!!
Buckaroo
Uno & Yazzy have always been our family favorites
operation was my favourite game
Great fun playing this with the kids many years ago, would like to do the same with the grandkids 🤞
I love Ludo, always have done from being a child! Can’t beat a game of snakes and ladders either.
My favourite game when I was little was Mouse Trap… but it was such a pain to set up!! 😀
Monopoly!
Monopoly was my favourite as a child
I always loved Monopoly
Monopoly
frustration
I have always loved playing Monopoly x
I loved Cluedo
We always loved Operation and its crazy buzzes!
i loved to play Operation
I loved Guess Who as a child.
I loved snakes and ladders and still play this with my daughter a lot
As a child I loved Snakes and Ladders. My grandchildrenstill enjoy it too.
kerplunk was my favourite game.
Kerplunk was a favourite, as was ludo.
We love playing pop up pirate
Game of life!
Snakes and ladders, my grandchildren also love it
I loved loads of board and computer games. Mouse trap was my fave though, and pop up pirate!
Fraustration and Mousetrap
My favourite game is Monopoly, although I remember enjoying Hungry Hungry Hippos as a kid 🙂
My favourite game was and is Mousetrap!
Snakes and Ladders
Definitely snakes and ladders we would play it forever
I loved Snakes and ladders!
Monopoly
Ludo, with snakes and ladders on the other side of the board I. Case you got really bored!
Love this game, reminds me to diet lol
ludo
I liked Mousetrap
a really cool game called poppin hoppies
Monopoly it would be.
we like playing Cluedo
Cluedo
Flounders
When I was little I loved Hungry Hippos, it’s been around for years! I’d love this for my children x
Cluedo
I loved Snakes and Ladders when I was little
We loved playing Monopoly
I love buckaroo
When i was younger my favourite game was boggle and card game is 100-1. My sons absolute favourite is monopoly and card game is go fish x
I loved mouse trap!
Haunted House
I loved Monopoly, and Ludo for a traditional board game.
Cluedo was my favourite…I still enjoy it
The favourite game in our family is Sorry!
Kerplunk was always my favourite as a child but now I love any games
I loved mouse trap and was never aloud it out, I bought it my daughter and now understand why I was never allowed it out.
I used to love playing Mouse Trap. That hehe was super fun.
Mousetrap, but only building it, the actual game was rubbish.
Loved the board game Frustration when I was younger.
I loved Mouse Trap!
love this
My favourites were always Mouse Trap and Cluedo!
I did love this game of course but my favourite and I cant for the life of me think what it was called but you had elephant masks to wear and you had to throw hoops on the trunks.. now I’ve typed that ot sounds like I made it up haha.
Cluedo.
We recently bought Mousetrap which is still a fun game to play after 30 years or so!
Frustration! Until my uncle spilled wine over the centre and you couldnt see the dice haha
Snakes and ladders
I loved Buckaroo but it always scared the life out of me as a kid!!
Monopoly
Chinese Chequers I used to love playing with my Great Aunty who I visited lots
Frustration is my favourite game
Snake and ladders and monopoly were my favourite games. In my childhood board game choice wasn’t huge like now.
I loved connect 4
I used to love hungry hippos and mousetrap.
CHESS
Mine was mouse trap
My favourite game when growing up was kerplunk
Monopoly. I used to spend hours playing it with my brother x
mousetrap
I always loved monopoly – still do!
I’ve always loved Monopoly
MONOPOLY AND PAYDAY
I loved Mouse Trap when i was little
I used to love Mousetrap we used to play as a family
Monopoly, always!
Monopoly
My favourite as a child was Snakes & Ladders
As a child, I loved rummikub or junior mastermind.
I’ve always loves monopoly
Oh wow l have a few! Operation, Kerplunk and Buckaroo loved them!
I love Cluedo
Snakes and ladders
I used to love Downfall
Labyrinth
we love Monopoly
I loved pop up pirate when I was little. I was always terrified of putting the swords in haha.
We had many hours of fun playing Ludo.
I used to love playing drafts with my Dad when I was a child, it was a rare opportunity to get him all to myself x.