Binky’s break dance

A Rico original game from the Bar Arcade Collection.

The legendary red ghost does an interpretive dance of Knight moves in a bizzaro analog Pac-man open grid dance floor.

SEt up

• 1 x 7x7 square grid board

• A collection of bottlecaps, coins, or tokens..

• The game starts on an open field covered by the tokens.

• The red pawn is placed randomly on any one square.

• You need a juke box, or other source of music for Binky to dance to.

Number of Players

• 1

Objective

• Dance a Knight’s dance and clear the board without a mis step.

Rules

• On your turn move the pawn, Binky the legendary red ghost from Pacman lore, with Chess Knight movements to collect each token stepped on.

• Knights move in an ‘L’ pattern, two spaces in any adjacent direction, with an additional space to either side.

• Be careful not to step on an empty space, is when the game ends.

• Count the number of tokens left on the dance floor is your final score.

• Rinse and repeat to get a lower score.

Player Variations

• Binky’s Break Dance can be played on nearly any sized board.

• Played individually, but could be played independently by others, to determine who has the lowest score.

History

• Binky’s Break Dance is a Rico original game created in 2025, to clean up the game of Horsesh!t.

• It exemplifies how I create all my original games, I simply ask, “What if..?” and the magic happens from there.

Game Theory / Game Dynamics

• This game is proudly served up on The Bar Arcade Collection shelf, and intended to accommodate all my bar drinking friends at their favorite game friendly watering hole.

• To the makers/owners of Pacman the video game, I respectfully submit this as the bizarro analog version, in which I’d love to see you digitize it. Please, just give it some better music than, ‘ Wonka - wonka - wonka’.

• In a bar environment, make use of the local jukebox.

• The beauty if this game is the simplicity of the rules. If you already know how a Chess Knight moves, the rest fits on a fiddlestick.

• The other thing that make this game special is the game pieces. It encourages ecofriendly repurposing. Bottlecaps are usually in an abundant supply in most bars, so you will never run out. The bottlecaps do not need to be in uniformed either, any flavor will do.

• ‘Binky’ is a recycled plunger from a laundry detergent bottle, with eyes painted on it, and a refrigerator magnet strapped to it’s ass. However, you could use a cork or any other pawn to represent the friendly red ghost.

• All you really need is a bonafide RicoBoard to play on. (my secret sauce)

I hope you enjoy playing games,
as much as I have making them.