Five dancers in a square: head dancers 1+3, sides 2+4, 5 in centre facing 1.
Music: "Lively polka or rant".

On 8 july 2016 the author wrote to the SCDDB editors "A further update on the 'Polka Dot Polka. Although I was completely unaware at the time I made up the dance, I have been told very recently that there is actually a traditional 5 -hand reel dance mentioned in one of Thomas Hardy's Wessex novels. As he was an accomplished fiddle player, playing for village dances, I suspect that the 5 hand reel was a genuine dance though whether it survived and the notation was ever 'collected' I don't know."
 