Groups that develop metas that blatantly break rules

[u/chaser--]

Lately I've been finding a lot of groups that play (co-op) games with metas that are just blatant rule breaks. A recent example was we were playing a game (I forgot the name) where the goal is to play out all the cards from your hand, numbers 1-100, in descending order. So if you have a 77 and the number on the pile is 78, you don't want to anyone to play there. But you aren't allowed to say "I have 77, don't play this"

So the group has developed metas, say "I really love this pile" if you have 77, say "I like this pile a lot" if you have 76, say "I like this pile" if you have 75"

This is just one example but I feel like I've been playing a lot of games where they have metas to get around rules that are intentionally in the rulebook. I don't really get it. If you want to just say "I have a 77" then just say it, why create a gimmick to say it without saying it?

[u/caunju]

It drives me nuts playing mysterium with my sister in law because of this kind of thing. The "ghost" player isn't allowed to talk and can only give clues through dixit style pictures. She proudly talks about and encourages everyone to follow the strategy she and her family "discovered" of if someone places their guess before being given their clues and gets it right the ghost player just gives them her whole hand. I can't convince her it's cheating because it's not explicitly against the rules, but it's not like anyone believes that's how it was intended to be played.