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A company tried to make Monopoly in America and couldn't get dice

Ellsworth Toohey
Jul 12, 2026
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When the WS Game Company got hit with a seven-figure tariff bill on the board games it imports from China, CEO Jonathan Silva decided to find out whether he could make one in America instead. He picked a special 250th-birthday edition of Monopoly and, according to NPR, hit a wall almost immediately: he couldn’t find anyone in the United States to make h…

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