Editing Modern Western square dance (section)

=== Games ===
Games refer to rule bending games that increase the difficulty of a dance.  These include dancing with fewer than 8 people in the square, changing partners in the middle of a tip, and changing squares in the middle of a tip.  Playing games without the permission of the entire square (and often the caller) can be considered extremely rude{{By whom|date=January 2014}}, and may confuse other squares as well.  Games can, however, be an excellent tool for improving square dance skills, especially in class or club situations, and often have the function of allowing dancers who otherwise cannot form a complete square to participate in a dance.  At the advanced and challenge levels, games include dancing phantom (missing one or more dancers), in a hexagon (6 couples in a square, consisting of three head couples and three side couples) or bigons (4 people, each of whom dances their own part and that of their opposite).