How to give myself permission to delete an application?

I found the application icon in Spotlight, and dragged it to the trash. I got an alert window that told me "Operation cannot be completed because you do not have sufficient privileges for DROD" (where DROD = Deadly Rooms of Death, a strategy game).
If it helps at all the path for two chunks I am trying to get rid of is: volumes/drod-2.0.13 and another is library/application support/caravel (more gobbledygook, quite long)
I own the computer, there is no question of my not being able to get the privileges, but I don't remember protecting or privileging the program in the first place. So where are the priviledges so that I can get this thing off my computer.
In my old Mac, OS 8.6 getting rid of stuff was as simple as finding where the icon was on the disk and dragging the whole folder into the trash. Folders from Spotlight don't respond to this, possibly because opening them out of Spotlight doesn't put them in a context where they are inside another folder so that the OS can tell that I am removing the contents instead of simply getting it off my desktop. How do I delete a whole folder's worht of stuff in OSX?
Are there any deinstall utilities for OSX?

Another possibility here: if you are using a "Standard" user account, then you do not have Read/Write access to the /Applications directory. Only Admin users have Read/Write access to /Applications. So, if you logged-in with your Admin account, you should be able to drag an application's icon from /Applications to the Trash.
However, not all uninstalls are so simple. See my "Uninstalling applications" FAQ for important advice on uninstalling software.
Finally, you wrote: "Are there any deinstall utilities for OSX?"Yes, but none that I'd trust. The advice in my previously-cited FAQ will serve you well.
Good luck!
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