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* [[Aint No Rule]] against "Ghosting" or "Stream-sniping".
** To elaborate, professional people often stream their games. Their opponents [[Dangerously Genre Savvy|are well aware of this]], and will join in their stream as an anonymous watcher or as a dummy-account and spy on their opponents when the game doesn't let them do it. Against the rules? Nope - [[Aint No Rule]] saying you can't do it, since it's not part of the game itself.
* The party in ''[[
* Referenced in ''~Baldur's Gate~ II'' with a magic ring that fires a blast of fire. The text indicates it was used in a duel between two drow, where each was allowed the use of one magical item. It was used by a friend of one of them, who shot their opponent in the back from the stands. [[Chronic Backstabbing Disorder|Being drow]], everyone agreed it was a brilliant interpretation of the rules.
* ''[[
* ''[[Sim City|Sim City 4 Deluxe]]'' can ultimately allow a player (through some basic building making and [[Game Mod|basic modding]] of course) to have apartments on light density zones and who knows what else. Sure, it says no apartments develop on light density, but who said anything about ''pencil towers'' or ''duplexes'' for that matter if you truly cared? In fact, half of modding the game ''is'' about ballooning zone densities to unbelievable sizes with building types.
* In the ''[[Half Life]]'' expansion ''Opposing Forces'' protagonist Adrian Shephard can avoid the order to kill Black Mesa personnel to cover up the incident because he never officially got that part of his orders. He should be able to reasonably deduce that part of his orders by asking (or just watching) the others, but remains purposefully ignorant.
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* Humans in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' under the Treaty of Farixen are only allowed to build one dreadnought per every five the Turians have. Instead they began [[The Battlestar|building carriers]] which were not subject to any restrictions. Of course, this was mostly due to the fact that Humans were the ones to introduce the concept of Carriers to the Galaxy ''in the first place.''
** In ''Mass Effect 3'', there are several ways the quarians try to get around this rule: they were arming every single ship they had so even the huge ships would be armed (and as such weren't purpose-built dreadnoughts), they were salvaging destroyed dreadnoughts thus making what the quarians were doing technically ''re''building them, [[Trying to Catch Me Fighting Dirty|the Council is too busy prosecuting the war with the Reapers to pay attention to them]], and even if the council wasn't, the quarians never signed the treaty in the first place and they largely operate outside the Council's jurisdiction anyway.
* Saturos in ''[[
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' has an interesting one. There are laws limiting the use of nuclear missiles. Metal Gear Rex uses a rail-gun to fire nuclear ''warheads''.
* In ''[[Disgaea]] 2'' you will repeatedly be subpoenaed by the Dark Court for various "crimes" committed by your party members. This being the Netherworld, you ''want'' to have extensive crime records, since it gives benefits. While the rules stipulate that a person has to find and enter the gate to the Dark Court, it doesn't actually have to be the person who did the crime. It also doesn't say only ''one'' person has to go in - you can form a ladder and throw up to nine people before the judge, who will write up everyone for this underhanded behavior.
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* ''[[League of Legends]]'' often gives deals to get champion skins for free. However, if you do not have the champion in question, you can still get the champion ''and'' the skin for free.
* Related, PC gamer magazine often runs a code to receive a freebie for a game in its magazine, such as a free pet in ''[[Guild Wars]]'' or a free champion (and a skin) in ''[[League of Legends]]''. There's always at least one person who goes onto their forums and asks them for a new code because theirs didn't work - [[Aint No Rule]] saying people can't just go into a magazine store, take a copy of the magazine, snap a picture with their phone or write it down, and then enter it into the game without having to pay a cent for the magazine.
* ''[[Fate/stay
** The Holy Grail War is [[There Can Be Only One|a fight between Servants]]. [[Aint No Rule]] that you can't kill a Master (who is usually a [[Squishy Wizard]]) to make their Servant disappear.
** A Master is given the power to summon one Servant, and if he loses it he can form a contract with a Servant whose Master was killed. [[Aint No Rule]] that he can't form contracts with multiple Servants at once.
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** [[Aint No Rule]] that you have to wait until the war begins to summon your Servant.
** Broken Phantasm is a technique that releases all the power in a Servant's legendary weapon at once, destroying it in the process. [[Aint No Rule]] that you can't use it with temporary copies of weapons.
** From the 3rd Holy Grail war in the backstory and ''[[Fate/hollow
* Similar to Germany before [[World War Two]] (see [[Real Life]] example below), USSR in ''[[Command and Conquer|Red Alert 2]]'' manages to build up a large military partly through this trope. One of the restrictions is the limitation on military aircraft. So, the Soviets build thousands of armored zeppeling to act as bombers. [[Aint No Rule]] about mind-controlling giant squids to sink Allied ships, right? Of course, having powerful psychics under your command means you can have every Allied inspector come back saying exactly what you want him to say, even if he just saw a column of Apocalypse tanks roll by.
* [[Tin Star]] has an example, with the sheriff Tin Star trying to figure out how to deal with an invasion of bandits dressed up as women without breaking the code "never shoot women and children".
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'''Mo:''' Yeah, so?<br />
'''Tin Star:''' So these are just women on their own! Get my guns, Mo! }}
* Used to thwart the fal'Cie's plan in ''[[
* The ''[[Professor Layton]]'' series absolutely ''adores'' this trope. With each game's puzzle collection, you can expect at least 20% of it to be comprised of puzzles that can only be solved by exploiting loopholes in the rules.
* Many WWE Games in recent years don't permit Divas VS Superstar matches, but there's isn't a rule about replacing the character with a "vacant" or invisible character and implied the specific sex, especially in Create-A-Story mode. This means all a gamer has to do is place a vacant character in the place of a Diva <ref>female</ref> or Superstar <ref>male</ref> and have they go after either gender. For example, a vacant character would be implied to be a Diva and can attack a Superstar.
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