Rare, complete, and exceptionally well-kept example of this controversial cult board game. Modeled on Monopoly (indeed Beat the Border often reads like a parody of that classic), players compete to smuggle and sell the most “kilos,” with strategy revolving around trying to sell in cities where hauls bring more (NYC vs. Pheonix, for example) while avoiding bankruptcy, getting busted, and other obstacles (“Best friend burns you, lose half your dope”), Originally sold in head shops, the game attempts to “tell it like it is” (according to the box) while reflecting both 1970s drug culture and period racial stereotypes (dealers are identified as Papas, Pepe, Jose, etc.). Poorly distributed, contemporary newspaper accounts suggest it was quietly circulated mainly in the Southwest. OCLC does not locate the title. A scarce relic of the early 1970s counterculture.

$975