In a game, or anything else, that you kept interested after you learned how to cheat in it?

Self-control. Perspective. I found that I often can choose how I engage things, to match my likes, tastes, and interests, and that can make a vast difference in how much I am able to enjoy many things.

Particularly in games, there are often ways to cheat or make yourself technically win, but what’s the point in that? The reverse perspective, is that you can set your own goals, conditions, and perspectives on a game, to create new games with different kinds of challenges.

The player who finds a cheat and loses interest can’t enjoy the game any more.

The player who can invent endless ways to play a game, can enjoy endless games for the price of one.

(On the other hand, I hear the name “Pokemon”, and I choose to not even learn what the game is. That also feels like a win to me. I’m missing lots of stuff, but because I have the ability to invent games and variations that I like, I’m happy with that.)

As for physics, the answers to specific problems are not the point, at all. The point is about understanding how physical aspects of the universe work. (And, you can also use that to make games, and I do . . .)

I prefer to say that “I learned the algorithm to it’s solution”

Like solving a 6 sided rubik’s cube in 5 minutes. It’s still a challenge, but more of a parlor trick..

I would imagine that with games which involve money there would not be a loss of interest from cheating.