Rainsford cannot escape the game. If he refuses to be hunted, he will be tortured by Ivan, Zaroff's servant. If he surrenders, he will either be malled by dogs or shot by Zaroff. He could commit suicide by falling in quicksand or drowning himself. Ultimately, he decides to fight for his life.
Rainsford sets traps for Zaloff. The first is the Maley man-catcher, a trap in which a positioned tree falls on the hunter, but Zaloff escapes with a shoulder wound. The second is the Burmese tiger pit, which actually does kill one of Zaloff's dogs. The third consists of Rainsford's knife flying on a vine backwards at his pursuers. This trap kills Ivan. In the end, Rainsford does win the "game," when he surprises Zaloff in his bedroom.
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