I agree completely, cheating is different than unexpected results. Additionally there is little recourse if an instructor has it in for you. When I was 14, I h

I agree completely, cheating is different than unexpected results. Additionally there is little recourse if an instructor has it in for you. When I was 14, I had an "International trade" simulation in which each student was a "country" trying to make hamburgers. Each country was given a large amount of 2-3 ingredients, but 6 were necessary to make a burger (lettuce, cheese, patty, bread, tomato, mayo). So we had to trade and we'd be graded on how many burgers we could complete. The teacher was left wing and was trying to teach a "fixed wealth" version of trade. Some countries were specifically given less resources. Sparking cries of "unfair!". I was given less than average, and wasn't content to lose. So I immediately traded everything I had 2:1 to buy up all the patties; cornering the closed market trivially. Once I could roadblock a majority of the market, I asked for a 1:10 rate in return. I got by far the most complete hamburgers, but received an F for the exercise. The teacher had hoped that we'd learn that wealth is pre-determined and trade more favorably with countries that had less. I wasn't participating in the "spirit" of the exercise. Thankfully she stopped short of calling it cheating.