I borrowed the UY Roleplaying Game from a friend of mine (since its, as fair as I know, gone out of production

Me and some friends were creating characters when we hit a problem:
Debukuma Bakuto is a Bear Gambler.
He uses some of his 4 points plus the bonus from being a Gambler to get a Mental score of 7.
As a Gambler, he also starts with +2 to his Perception, and another +2 for it being an Everyman Skill. The Games skill goes on Mental, so he adds this score to the other two plusses.
This gives:
2 + 2 + 7 = 11
This is the score he will have no matter what, without spending any skillpoints.
However, the rulebook states the following:
1. No attribute may start above 8 (which the Mental score doesn't, so it shouldn't prove to be a problem)
2. No skill may start above 8. However here, with the Games skill, we have a 'natural' 11.
How do I solve this problem?
I have more examples, if you want them.
Please help me, as we are quite incapable of proceeding with our roleplaying before we have this figured out.