According to General Zaroff what is the most dangerous game?

According to Zaroff, the most dangerous game is man. The
title provides a play on words. Some, without knowledge of the story, may think that the
story "The Most Dangerous Game" is an actual game played. While this is true, the most
dangerous game also depicts the man Zaroff is
hunting.

Game, when defined, is an activity engaged in
either amusement or as a diversion, or it is an animal being hunted or taken as the
result of a hunt.

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"I hunt more dangerous game."-
Zaroff

Zaroff goes on to
describe his game (the animal as well as the
activity).

"I
had to invent a new animal to hunt...And the answer was, of course, "It must have
courage, cunning, and, above all, it must be able to
reason."

In the end,
Rainsford is the one to let readers in on Zaroff's new
animal:

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"But they are
men," said Rainsford
hotly.

Basically, Zaroff
defines the most dangerous game as a man. The reason he justifies this is that only man
is able of reason. For that reason, man is the most dangerous
game.