> This isn't a "low key social engineering hack", it's betraying someone's trust.

I've known some kids who went through a phase where you would ask them something like "Did you clean your room?", they'd say "Yes!" and then later, upon confronting them with their messy room, they'd get this self-satisfied sneaky look, and cackle: "Hah! I tricked you!"

While I sympathize with the David-and-Goliath allure of reversing the power-relationship between them and the adults in the household, I tried to explain that such direct lies weren't quite the kind of devious tricksterhood that gets a celebration.