Dic/ game the system

▷ game the system: to use rules or laws to get what you want in an unfair but legal way.

▷ game: manipulate (a situation), typically in a way that is unfair or unscrupulous.

• it was very easy for a few big companies to game the system.
• politicians blamed electricity generators for gaming the market.

..... LDOCE, Oxford Living Dictionaries

▷ What does "gaming the system" mean? (Quora)

▷ Gaming the system (Wikipedia):

Gaming the system (also referred to as gaming the rules, bending the rules, abusing the system, cheating the system, milking the system, playing the system, or working the system) can be defined as using the rules and procedures meant to protect a system in order, instead, to manipulate the system for a desired income. ( ... )

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