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* Tyrogue from the ''Pokemon'' games will evolve into a Hitmonlee or Hitmonchan, depending on its Attack and Defense stats. Unless the two happen to be exactly equal when it evolves, then it evolves into a Hitmontop. This is quite difficult to pull off if you don't know how the stat system works.

* ''[=~Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood~=]'' has the "Strong Closer" Achievement/Trophy. To get it, you need to take the lead in a multiplayer match at most ten seconds before the session's end and staying there to the end. Naturally, the best way to get it would be to stay close enough to the leader that you can easily overtake, but not actually take the lead until the time is right.

** These are known as "paper towns". The book ''Paper Towns'' by John Green includes one as a plot point, and in the author's note Green mentions having been fooled by one on a road trip once.

* In EA's ''Madden Football 2004'', a single player could not accumulate more than 1023 rushing yards in a single game; any more would wrap around to -1024 due to an overflow error. With a good team, a good playbook, and a good working knowledge of AI behavior, the player might need to cut a run short and make a substitution to avoid wrecking his star running back's statistics.

* Early in the original [[KnightsOfTheOldRepublic KotOR]], you're forced to [[UnexpectedGameplayChange participate in a swoop race]]. While you must beat the track time, another racer will inevitably do slightly better, requiring you to beat your own best time by a fair margin [[GuideDangIt unless you know in advance]].

'''Tropers/DarkSasami:''' [[CaptainObvious But that would make the title perfect.]]

** This is something of a WallBanger. Dash has to "dial back" his ability and settle for second place because he could naturally win first place without any contest, meaning that he isn't really competing at all and making his participation more or less pointless. One would think that if Dash was really interested in competing in sporting events he would choose a team sport, where some manner of tactics would be needed and where subtly using his super-speed to give himself a slight advantage would still not guarantee a win.

* The ''{{Elite Beat Agents}}'' and ''[[OsuTatakaeOuendan Ouendan]]'' games have different cutscenes for failing level segments and the entire level and most of them are worth seeing. It's not quite as easy as you'd think though, since you can't clearly see the point where you fail or pass the level segment and doing poorly will easily cause you to get a game over instead, not to mention that you need to fail every level segment to get the bad ending for the level.

* Ahem... in any "adult" game there's a chance of this being the ''ultimate goal.'' Depending on what you want to see happen (which is obviously the point of the game most of the time, not "winning"), you might try to fail on purpose just to get something, umm, "going." The best examples are action games where you play a female character who's trying to avoid horny monsters (the player will invariably throw himself right into a mass of NaughtyTentacles ''ad infinitum'') or games where the "bad ending" is more [[FetishFuel "satisfying" in some way]] than the better alternatives. ''[[OrSoIHeard Excuse me...]]''

Describe DoWellButNotPerfect here, but be sure to inlcude at least one error.

--> '''Tropers/{{Regiment}}:''' If [[GrammarNazi I may criticize]]: it should be "Do Well But Not Perfect''ly''".
--> '''Tropers/DarkSasami:''' [[CaptainObvious But that would make the title perfect.]]