{"id":1267,"date":"2025-08-08T09:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1267"},"modified":"2025-08-08T09:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T09:15:11","slug":"a-15-year-old-made-millions-from-a-card-game-he-invented-at-age-7-he-just-sold-it-to-a-major-toy-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cedritech.com\/?p=1267","title":{"rendered":"A 15-year old made millions from a card game he invented at age 7. He just sold it to a major toy company"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"caas-list caas-list-bullet\">\n<li><strong>PlayMonster games has bought Taco vs. Burrito for an undisclosed amount<\/strong>. The game was invented by a 7-year old, who, with his parents\u2019 help, has steer it to over 1.5 million sold units. Creator Alex Butler says, despite its success, \u201cIt was never something that I\u2019ve been attached to or anything.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alex Butler was just seven years old when he made his first million dollars. A game he had invented, called Taco vs Burrito, had made it to\u00a0Amazon\u2014and by the end of 2018, it had rung up sales of about $1.1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Now, after overseeing the game\u2019s empire with his parents, Butler has sold the rights to the game to\u00a0PlayMonster, whose other well-known products include Spirograph, Farkle, and Yeti in my Spaghetti. Terms of the deal were not announced, but Taco vs. Burrito (which retails for $20 on Amazon) has sold 1.5 million copies life to date. The game also has two expansion packs.<\/p>\n<p>PlayMonster says it will continue to expand the game and a version in a collector\u2019s tin is coming later this year.<\/p>\n<div class=\"caas-da \">\n<div id=\"sda-LREC1-ddf0d052-7dfa-3cf1-a908-83c52ad0d2b21754641906110\" class=\"caas-sda-benji-ad caas-sda-gam-container-mid-center caas-sda-gam-container-mid-center-small wafer-destroyed\" data-wf-benji-page-context=\"{&quot;pageUrl&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/15-old-made-millions-card-154629151.html&quot;,&quot;spaceid&quot;:&quot;1197618800&quot;,&quot;site&quot;:&quot;news&quot;,&quot;hashtag&quot;:&quot;videogames&quot;,&quot;lmsid&quot;:&quot;a0ad000000BferXAAR&quot;,&quot;lpstaid&quot;:&quot;ddf0d052-7dfa-3cf1-a908-83c52ad0d2b2&quot;,&quot;pt&quot;:&quot;content&quot;,&quot;pd&quot;:&quot;modal&quot;,&quot;pct&quot;:&quot;story&quot;}\" data-wf-benji-wafer-config=\"{}\" data-wf-benji-config=\"{&quot;positions&quot;:{&quot;LREC1-ddf0d052-7dfa-3cf1-a908-83c52ad0d2b21754641906110&quot;:{&quot;id&quot;:&quot;LREC1-ddf0d052-7dfa-3cf1-a908-83c52ad0d2b21754641906110&quot;,&quot;path&quot;:&quot;\/22888152279\/us\/ynews\/ros\/dt\/us_ynews_ros_dt_mid_center&quot;,&quot;region&quot;:&quot;viewer&quot;,&quot;size&quot;:[[300,250]],&quot;kvs&quot;:{&quot;loc&quot;:&quot;mid_center&quot;}}}}\" data-wf-trigger=\"onLoad\" data-wf-margin=\"100 0\" data-hide-ad-string=\"\">\n<div id=\"LREC1-ddf0d052-7dfa-3cf1-a908-83c52ad0d2b21754641906110\" class=\"wafer-benji-success\" data-google-query-id=\"CJ-i94bv-o4DFVyg_QcdL4EOGA\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/22888152279\/us\/ynews\/ros\/dt\/us_ynews_ros_dt_mid_center_33__container__\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Butler, who is now 15, says he\u2019s not especially sad to see his creation move on. It was, he says, never really something he wanted to keep doing for the rest of his life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was never something that I\u2019ve been attached to or anything,\u201d\u00a0he told\u00a0<em>The Seattle Times<\/em>. \u201cIt\u2019s not super important to me. I just kind of wanted to get the most money out of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alex\u2019s mother is an entrepreneur herself, so when her son came up with the idea after playing card games like Exploding Kittens, she encouraged him. The family would walk to the neighborhood coffee shop\/hangout to test the prototype, which would lead to Alex coming up with a new take on the rules.<\/p>\n<p>To cover production costs, he mother launched an online fundraiser, which brought in $25,000. Alex\u2019s parents set up a holding company for the game (of which Alex was the majority owner), found a manufacturer, and put the game on Amazon. It quickly took off and never slowed down.<\/p>\n<p>While there have been buyout offers in the past, the family said they never felt right. When they began speaking with PlayMonster, things did.<\/p>\n<p>Don\u2019t expect another game anytime soon from Alex, though. His interests have shifted to music production, sports, and video games, he says.<\/p>\n<p>This story was originally featured on\u00a0Fortune.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayMonster games has bought Taco vs. Burrito for an undisclosed amount. 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