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This sometimes takes the form of an admonishment not to cheat on an upcoming game/test/whatever, which comes so out-of-the-blue that it can only be interpreted as an ''encouragement'' to cheat. A subtrope of [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]]. Compare [[Could Say It, But...]]. Take it further and you realize [[Real Life]] history is [[Written by the Winners]].
[[Super-Trope]] (at least partly) to [[Scrabble Babble]]. Compare [[Can't You Read the Sign?]] And sometimes the villain in [[What You Are in the Dark]], or the foolhardy fellow teenager in [[Youth Is Wasted on the Dumb]] urges this trope to encourage something actually wrong. See also [[Fixing the Game]]. Contrast with [[What You Are in the Dark]].
{{examples|These examples weren't cheating! You can't prove anything!}}
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=== Card Games ===
* Unhinged, one of the joke sets for ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' has a card called [https://web.archive.org/web/20090428155326/http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=74306 Cheatyface], which you're allowed to put into play for free as long as your opponent doesn't catch you doing it.
** Particularly amusing when paired with Ashnod's Coupon (Target player gets you target drink). While they're in the kitchen, there is nothing stopping you from putting all 49 copies of the card you possess into play.
* A flare in the original version of [[Cosmic Encounter]] gives its owner a similar power: if you have the filch card in your hand, you can filch cards from the draw deck or discard pile, and reclaim your own destroyed ships, as long as nobody sees you do it. If you're caught, however, you have to put what you stole back, and an extra ship of yours is destroyed. The most recent remake includes this card as an optional variant.
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