Scramming

I have never seen a Go teacher offer to teach how to play bad on purpose.
Even in trick plays, there is an aspect of enticing the opponent to play the wrong answer, whereupon the trick move will lead into a favourable variation.
There was a discussion on the philosophy behind trick plays here: Defending against trick plays, maybe this is what you are looking for.

After you have made a genuinely bad move, like an unsuitably deep invasion, and your opponent answers correctly, ‘scramming’ is not what you should do. I’m sure this was the whole point of the review.
When you have taken a local loss, the best option is often to accept the bad exchange for what it is and play the next big point elsewhere on the board. You should not add even more bad exchanges, that will only make the situation worse.

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