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The first Monopoly concept did not work. Seven years, a full reset and more than $1 billion in marketing later, Scopely had a mobile phenomenon - and a playbook for buying the rest of the board.
How a Rhode Island textile-scraps business became the house that Monopoly, Nerf and Magic: The Gathering built - and why its future increasingly runs on dice, decks and download codes.