 Why was zarquil not played often by those in the area?
He then requested a taxi driver to take him to the nearest zarquil game. Actually the phrase was more appropriate to zarquil than to most of the other activities to which it was commonly applied. Those odd creatures from Altair's seventh planet cared nothing for the welfare of the completely alien human beings; all they wanted was to feather their own pockets with interstellar credits, so that they could return to Vinau and buy many slaves. For, on Vinau, bodies were of little account, and so to them zarquil was the equivalent of the terrestrial game musical chairs.
 It was an illegal game.
 It was an illegal game.  It was only played by Dutchmen.  It was fabulously expensive.  It was dangerous.