WHAT A GAME !!!


WOLF is addictive... very very addictive.
Last night ... on the eve of the 61st Independence day of India we put a night-out. We played some 3 games spread over a span of 7 hours - (11:30 p.m to 6:30 p.m) before we moved onto Taramani for our morning coffee accompanied by King's.
There is one particular game I wish to talk about. It was the last game of the night. We had some 14 members playing the game - Me, Chittad, Paplu, Pappey, Saffy, DPS, Shortage, Rahul, Manish, Asif(who had celebrated his Independence day a day before), CHB, Sashi, Randi and Nikhil.

We played with 4 wolves[Me, Rahul, Manish and Nikhil], 1 rogue, 1 cop, 1 doc and 1 priest [For the uninitiated - the priest can revive a dead man.... but he can use this power only once].

Night 1 - Wolves kill Chittad. Reason - He thinks too much. And them he did not seem quite interested in the game. Pappey [being the most dangerous] was not killed hoping that this point would go against him. Wolves generally kill Pappey in the first round itself knowing that if he is a villager he can be a real trouble maker.
[I am talking about the game from my point of view and such not revealing the details concerning the doc, rogue,cop and priest .. lest they act as spoilers]
Day 1 - Paplu comes out vehemently against me. Knowing Paplu quite well, I got the feeling that he was the police and he knew my identity. I was almost on the verge of giving up but suddenly Saffy springs up from no where against Manish. Saffy 's reaction was so very convincing that Manish thought Saffy to be the police. Both me and Manish were in a quandary as to who the real police was as to who should go out. Then out of the blue Saffy reveals to the village that I was a villager and he was sure of it [though he did not mention how or why]. On hearing this I thought that Saffy was a rogue or something and I started gathering forces against Manish. That meant Manish(a wolf) was killed. All the wolves voted against Manish going with the herd.

Night 2 - Now that I was sure Paplu was a Cop.. we killed him off.
Day 2 - Some newbies bring the accusation against me saying that I was the wolf since I was the only one who could have killed Paplu as he was against me in the previous round. Pappey jumps to my support saying that I was no novice and would never do that as I very well know that this would be the most fruitful argument against me. He comes up with the idea that someone was doing this to frame me. Now when all doubt over me had been cleared.......... I made a horrendous error [a bulb that bad that I am ashamed to put it] and Pappey caught me off guard..... I was killed. Two wolves dead.

Night 3- Remaining two wolves take the decision that should have been taken much earlier - to kill the dangerous Pappey. As I was outside the game now... I saw that there was no police. Paplu was the real police and we were right in killing him. Doc(CHB) saved himself. Rogue(DPS) did not make his kill.
Day 4 - Nikhil at once comes out with the accusation that Sashi was the rogue saying that he had heard him twist an turn during the night when the Rogue's name was called out. Surprisingly, no one took this much seriously. This round was marked by multiple parallel conversations and no conclusion seemed in sight. Nikhil ... to my shock and to the other wolf's[Rahul] shock revealed to the village that he was the police. Most of the villagers accepted this to be true as no one else came out[Paplu, the real police was already dead] and Nikhil said that he had found out Shortage's, CHB's and Asif's identity. [the villagers never took into consideration the fact that the Wolf knows who all are villagers!]. Asif came out in the open saying that he was the Priest which further convinced people that Nikhil was the cop. The villager first agree that the Priest would revive Pappey. With no surety about anyone's identity, the village decides to kill DPS, the most silent villager. Even the wolves vote against him.[He had never suggested anything close to being a Rogue which would have swayed the wolves. Villagers ask Nikhil, the assumed Cop to find out Rahul's identity[as he had supported me in the previous rounds] and the Doc to save the cop.

Night 5 - Asif, the priest revives Pappey. Wolves kill Asif.[I don't know why!]. Doc saves himself[selfish!]. Rahul waves his hand like a magicians wand during the wolf kill while pointing out Asif. His loose bracelet was a dead give away.
Day 5- Pappey enters the game and proclaims that Nikhil can't be cop for sure for he saw him bulbing. He starts with his typical Pappey-ish style not giving anyone else a chance to talk. This actually gives Nikhil a chance to reconsider his original decision to announce Rahul to be a villager. Nikhil decides to announce Rahul to be a wolf. The delay in his announcement is justified by the fact that Pappey did not give him a chance to talk. With most of the villagers still convinced by Nikhil, they decide to kill Rahul and when he turns out to be wolf everyone including Pappey consider Nikhil to be the cop. They ask Nikhil to find out Randi's identity and the Doc(who has revealed himself by now) to save the cop.

Night 6 - Nikhil kills CHB(thinking that the Doc will save the cop and not himself). Doc saves himslef.[shrewdness or selfishness?]
Day 6- Nikhil reveals that Randi was a villager. Of the remaining, identities of Saffy and Sashi was not known. So the villagers decide to kill the more dangerous Saffy as Sashi was new to the game and he couldn't have kept his cool for so long. Villagers ask Nikhil to find out Sashi's identity.
P.S : Everyone had assumed that Pappey was a villager since he was killed in the night.

Night 7 -Nikhil kills CHB again, sure that there was a low probability that the Doc would save himself again. Doc saves himslef again (!!)
Day 7- Nikhil comes out in the open saying that Sashi was a villager. He virtually gave it up. He later admitted that he was under so much pressure that his mind could not continue further.
Villagers still not sure that Nikhil was not a wolf, decide to kill as everyone else had been proved to be a villager by Nikhil.
Villagers remaining - Pappey, Shortage, Randi, CHB and Sashi.
VILLAGERS WIN!!

Did he have a way out???
I can think two ways by which he could have extended the game further.[though not won it]
1. He should have told that Sashi was a wolf. Kill him in the day. And kill someone in the night. But even then it would have been 3-1 in the day and there was no way he could escape.
2. Pappey's identity was never revealed. He could have generated a hypothesis that Pappey was a wolf who was killed in the night by the rogue. And the priest probably made a mistake by getting him into the game. So instead of finding out Sashi's identity he could have come out with the fact that Pappey was villager. But then villagers would have killed Sashi.... then again 3-1 in the day.
**It would have helped if his last two kills in the night were successful. The game quite well have been over by now with a Wolves Victory.

Any other possible outcomes?