SCAM: The Game of International Dope Smuggling.

Berkeley,: Brown Bag Enterprises,, 1971.. 882 by 584mm (34.75 by 23 inches).. Everything needed to play Scam, including: 882 x 584mm game board printed in colours on coated stock with metal smugglers' spinner mounted at centre; colour printed paper over pasteboard spinner with metal pointer mounted at centre; 27 "Connection" cards printed on blue card stock; 24 "Paranoia" cards on red stock; 100s of square "tokens" printed in colours representing varying quantities of pot (green), hashish (brown) and cocaine (blue); 100s of sheets of ersatz money in denominations of 50-100, 1000; 4 plastic playing pieces and two tiny die. With original cardboard shipping tube and original printed paper-wrapper bearing the image of a giant joint. The rules state: "Generally Scam goes like this: you begin on the drop out of college square and keep moving around the Ave until you have collected enough money and Connections to get off the Ave. You then work The County and New York until you get enough money to put together a smuggling Scam. That involves Flying to Mexico, Afghanistan or South America, buying dope, smuggling back to the States, and selling in New York (where there's more money) or in the County (where there's less Paranoia). To win the game you have to make One Million Dollars. If any of the following rules seem vague, unclear or stupid, feel free to change them to suit yourself." The map features maps of Afghanistan, India, Mexico and South America, with a cameo appearance by Uranus in the upper-left corner. New York, The Ave and The County appear as squared diagrams. Given the game's obscurity, we are unable to find a standardised list of the components. The present example appears to have been augmented with ersatz money, cards, dice and playing pieces borrowed from elsewhere. The aggregation may or may not constitute a complete set, however it certainly provides more than enough to play with. BoardGameGeek.com #25897. OCLC 987881863 (Library of Congress only). Rare Book Hub has no record of the game appearing at auction.