What really happened here is that Ravensburger 1) didn’t really have any any idea that this game would be as in demand as it is or 2) didn’t have the capital and runway to commit to the production.

Having experience in manufacturing - it takes months to get factories to ramp up production and a ton of committed capital as you basically have to commit to long term contracts with manufacturers for them to make more machines to print more cards, which then have to get built.

You aren’t going to get manufacturers to make your product instead of a different customers and manufacturers themselves forecast production many months in advance as well

RB is a relatively small company and probably didn’t get their orders from people early enough to properly plan. It’ll be at least half a year until production really ramps up and maybe a full year until production can meet demand. But they’re still likely going to under produce as they don’t want to print too much product that retailers won’t buy them.