Players everywhere have found ways to bend—or break—the game's rules.

Some of these methods are fairly harmless, while others can get you banned.

Here's how to cheat in Pokemon Go—but don't say we didn't warn you...

Egg-hatching machines

Are you too tired or lazy to walk around and hatch those eggs you've had forever?

No problem—just use something else to do it for you!

Creative Pokemon Go players have come up with all sorts of ways to hatch their eggs without also working their glutes.

Some trainers have even started strapping their phones to their actual, real-life pets

before sending them outside to play.

Others use spinning household objects like turntables, bicycle wheels,

and even ceiling fans to do the work.

Of course, don't use the spinning plate in your microwave for this method.

Despite the memes floating around showing you a phone safely spinning inside a microwave,

if you do this, all you'll end up with is a broken warranty, some dead Pikachus, and

a very disappointed dad.

Stealing gyms

After a Gym attack brings its prestige down to zero, it becomes neutral until a player

places a new Pokemon in as a defender.

That may take a few moments, because players can only use fully-healed Pokemon as defenders.

If you don't have creatures that are strong enough to take over a Gym yet, those few seconds

are your opportunity.

Watch for the Gym to turn neutral, then immediately tap on it and place one of your Pokemon in

there as a defender.

Next, go to your shop menu and tap the shield icon to claim your daily defender bonus of

Pokecoins and Stardust.

You'll claim a Gym without having to attack even once.

Who needs friends when you have imaginary dust?

Pick your Eevee-lution

When you evolve an Eevee in Pokemon Go, it can turn into one of three different forms, seemingly at random.

If you want some control, however, name them after the original Eevee trainers from the Pokemon cartoon.

Naming your Eevee "Sparky" will get you a Jolteon; "Rainer" will get you a Vaporeon;

and "Pyro" will get you a Flareon.

You may need to restart your app after naming your Eevee before proceeding with the evolution process.

And remember: you can always change those dorky names to something way cooler later.

GPS spoofing

Put simply, GPS spoofing is making your device pretend to be at a location that you are not.

Some trainers, like popular YouTuber PewDiePie, have gone to some extreme lengths to do this,

like strapping their phone to a remote-controlled drone and flying it around while playing the game via their laptop at home.

Technologically savvy cheaters can also install a program called Bluestacks on their computer,

which creates a virtual Android environment on the PC that acts just like a phone.

After rooting the device, they can install a modified version of Pokemon Go, as well

as a GPS faking app.

Once everything is set up, cheaters can set their "location" via the fake GPS app on the device,

open up Pokemon Go, and then play the game without leaving home.

If you want to know more, you’re probably a bad person.

Early reports indicate that most cheaters who are being found out are only being given a soft ban,

locking them out of the game for an hour or two at the most.

But there are also more and more reports of permanent bans.

So, play fair, or get kicked out of Pokemon for all eternity.

“Why don’t those stupid idiots let me in their crappy club for jerks?”

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