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* In [[John C. Wright]]'s ''[[Hermetic Millenium|Count to a Trillion]]'', Menelaus tries a [[Mad Scientist|nutty]], very hypothetical, and dangerous experiment as soon as the shuttle leaves Earth—meaning he's no longer covered by Earth law, and not yet under the captain's authority on the ship. Reaction to this reasoning: they knew they shouldn't have brought along a lawyer.
** Also incorrect; the shuttle is either a registered vessel (at which point he is still subject to the laws of the nation of registry) or a small craft attached to the starship (at which point it is ultimately subject to the laws of the mother ship's nation of registry).
* ''[[A Simple Survey]]'' has a number of games that are won by exploiting this:
** A modified game of hide-and-seek, with five hiders and five seekers. The seekers win if they find all the hiders in 30 minutes, the hiders win if even one of them is still hidden by the end. But the rules say nothing about {{spoiler|all the hiders having to remain alive. The narrator kills another hider and leaves her body in a tank of water, where no one would think of looking}}.
** Five people are each given a gun with one bullet, and the last person standing wins. There's no need to {{spoiler|actually kill all of the other competitors to win. The eventual winner accomplishes this by pretending to accidentally shoot himself in the eye (replacing the bullet with a blank beforehand) and letting the others kill each other}}.
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