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Looks great! Now add AI and you’ll be page 1 of HN!!
A sad indictment of modern times:

1. Invited to play physical game with friends 2. Only wanted to play a specific game which had no takers 3. Decided to play by self 4. Found that laborious 5. Automated humans out of the equation entirely 6. ???

This comment is a sad indictment of modern times. Nobody can be facetious on the web any more without someone taking the joke seriously.

To me, it seems like it actually was:

1. Had a Hungry Hungry Hippos game

2. Thought it would be a fun project to automate

3. Wrote a funny setup for the post

4.???

Or you can try to improve it and implement a version where your friends connect to a webpage to control the other 3 hippos. Not as fun as IRL, but it may be nice when you have a few friends living abroad.
A sadder indictment would be if they marketed Hungry Hungry Hippo (singular).
Hug of death? If you need assistance, email on my profile.
Quick warning to not play the video in the room with an Echo. Now I have Alexa telling everyone in the house that green hippo is hungry!!

Which begs the question, how do they broadcast "Alexa, ..." on TV shows so that it doesn't set my Echo off?