Puerto Rico Strategy

Puerto Rico[-like] Strategy is a general term Tangent uses to refer to a tabletop gaming strategy where you perform an action that doesn't benefit you much, but hinders your opponents more.

Origins
The term originated from how in Andreas Seyfarth's board game Puerto Rico, it is often more desirable to hinder your opponents than to perform actions that benefit you. In Puerto Rico, many actions a player takes has potential to benefit all players of the game. Since the game's ultimate goal is to score more points than an opponent by comparison, a big part of the strategy is to get stuff that doesn't benefit you much while making your opponents earn even less from it, rather than do something that benefits you a lot but an opponent even more.

This style of strategy has been found useful in other games and when referring to it, Tangent would often use the phrase "Puerto Rico(-like) strategy".