the game cheats

This is long overdue, but when I was visiting my family at Thanksgiving, my sister and her husband and I were playing Carnival MiniGolf for the Wii (is it the Wii or just Wii? I don't even know these things), and we were taking turns playing to unlock something - at one point he would get the ball to bounce just right so it went into a hen house and then hand the controller to one of us to try catching the eggs and medallions, or something like that - it was a lot of fun - and then there was another part where you play against the character, and someone - I'm not sure who - decided that he was cheating. The character.

And I tried to explain that saying "the game cheats" is completely illogical, but I think it was completely lost on them, not because they couldn't grasp it but because they didn't care. To me, it was very important. (This is your brain while studying for the LSAT.)

The game can't cheat because the game is a set of rules. The game can't violate the rules because if it does (it can't, but let's just say), then that violation is one of the rules, in which case no rules have been violated and the game didn't cheat.

Actually what I have in my notes: "the game cheats" is a nonsensical statement because the game sets up its own rules and therefore can only abide by them. If it is "cheating" - i.e., benefiting from actions the (human) player is (highly) unlikely to be able to perform - it is still playing by the rules because by definition it can only play by the rules - meaning this ability to outperform the player is a rule and therefore cannot be construed as cheating.

I believe their exact response was, "No. It's cheating." Use your words.