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. ???
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.
I think Hungry Hungry Hippos was the board game that taught me that advertisements lie. They were not, in fact, "fun fun fun by the ton ton ton." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBYcWhQae98
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[ 1.2 ms ] story [ 33.9 ms ] thread1. 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. ???
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.???
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB0nCFxV3PQ
Try asking "tell me a hippo fact" to learn more about them
Which begs the question, how do they broadcast "Alexa, ..." on TV shows so that it doesn't set my Echo off?