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Goreans, incidentally, in general, tend to be fond of gambling, often taking it, it seems, as a symbol of life, its hazards and its fortunes. - (Renegades of Gor, Chapter 24, Sentence #715)

Needless to say, recourse to so convenient a random-selection device as a spinning coin has often prevented bloodshed. Honor, you see, prescribes that the loser accept with good grace the edict of chance. Surely he had committed himself to that, given his acceptance of, and participation in, the wager. Goreans, incidentally, in general, tend to be fond of gambling, often taking it, it seems, as a symbol of life, its hazards and its fortunes. Perhaps needless to say, slaves often stand as the stakes in such gambling. Many a girl has changed hands as the ostraca have decreed. A coin smaller than the copper tarsk is the tarsk bit, but most do not lend themselves to gambling as they are usually triangular, being fashioned by cutting a copper tarsk into either four or eight pieces. - (Renegades of Gor)