This is exactly how I used to bypass the parental control application on windows when I was young. I only had 1 hour of computer time, after which the tool would close all applications on my PC except Microsoft Office Apps (for productivity). After a bit of clicking around, I somehow managed to open a browser in Outlook and play flash games on Miniclip.
Reminds me of how we worked around how the macs were locked down in high school. You could only launch certain applications and you couldn't open System Preferences but in Safari you could edit the default web browser. We would change the default web browser to Terminal (You could open Terminal but it was limited in what it could do, like it would fail at opening other apps) and then open Word, make a link, and click on it. The Terminal instance that opened had more privileges than opening it by default and using this instance you could run `open /path/to/your/app`, for example a game on a disk you inserted.
I remember our study hall teacher coming over at one point and asking if we were allowed to play the game (Starcraft) and the answer we gave (still can't believe it worked) was "Well these computers are pretty locked down as you know so if we are able to play this game it must mean the school is ok with it", which he accepted.
