How/where do/Should men draw the line between a girl "playing hard to get" and her just Not being interested?

@NerdyPotato haha

@SilentObZerver why is that funny? If women want you to try harder, they'll choose a different word than "no". That one is not subject to different interpretations. If you don't understand that though, it makes sense if you never hear anything else.

@NerdyPotato well didn’t mean they always literally use "NO"....
Sometimes through their actions, sometimes
They flirt with you and when you try to get to know their true intentions, they are like "i have a boyfriend"
Yet they still keep flirting

@SilentObZerver context is important indeed. But then we go back to manipulation. You're better off not getting anywhere with women who give such mixed signals.

@NerdyPotato it's not that simple... As an example a friend of mine went with a group on a picnic... There was a guy she was really keen on in that group... She told her friend that she would make him jealous by hanging around with another guy all day... Which she did.
End result, she went home alone... We do play games and they eventually turn round and kick us in the butt

@Convivial that's a different situation than what I commented on before, but it's another interesting one. She could have made the second guy interested in her only to disappoint him, she could have ended up with the original guy purely because of his jealousy rather than genuine interest in her, or both.

Both guys definitely dodged a bullet by not falling for her games, and hopefully she learned a lesson that hiding/faking feelings lead nowhere.

@Convivial exactly....Sometimes people only deal with whats ideal and turn a blind eye to the reality.....

People especially some girls do play games