Lots of crossover between total checkouts and checkouts-per-copy this year: Magical Athlete, Sky Team, Wingspan, Hot Streak, 7 Wonders Duel, and Harmonies.
Across the full library, and with two "top 20" hits here: CYMK had by far the most checkouts among publishers.
Final PAX snack report, Blüdle had 8 bags of sour gummi worms (heck yes), 1 gummi popsicle (yuck), and 1 french toast butterfinger (double yuck)
The meeples they groaned to be freed again
The people they crowed as the PAX began
First players were downed
As victors were crowned
Then the meeples they crawled back to their den
Mashfiq holding up PAX East tabletop tournament medal.
Mashfiq biting a PAX East tabletop tournament medal.
Mashfiq competing in Exploding Kittens tournament.
I won an Exploding Kittens tournament at #PAXEast! Thank you @tthq.bsky.social for hosting this event.
A few final roamer surveys we didn't get around to posting during the show.
Good advice for PAX, good advice for life
More tournament winners, including our Friday Night Frenzy and Saturday Night Showdown champions, are going home with shiny PAX East 2026 medals.
Wear them every day and make your local game group jealous. Never take them off!
Today, we showed off a unique treasure from deep within the catalog of Zoch Games.
Our Tabletop Hall roamers are deeply weird, and we love them all. Thank you for enabling their antics.
The Expo Hall is now closed, and it is Tabletop's time to shine. Creatures of the night, we remain open until 12AM.
Our Friday Night Frenzy started off with Harmonies and Faraway, before taking a detour to Hot Streak - and then a twisted grand finale of We're Doomed.
More of Friday's tournament winners
Some polls are closer than others. Everyone loves the rat.
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Entertaining the @officialpax.bsky.social masses, one line at a time. 😎
@lineentertainment.bsky.social
#PAXEast #PAXEast2026 #LineEntertainment #whimsy
And our winners!
You may recognize them from Unplugged, and now the Historical Miniatures Gaming Society is making their PAX East debut
64 players gathered for our Thursday Night Throwdown mystery tournament, playing through a gauntlet of games to arrive at our grand finale: Magical Athlete
Seth, you are very good at Power Grid! Your opponents were swiftly defeated, and for this you have been awarded a shiny PAX Tournament Champion medal.
Sometimes we have questions. Sometimes you have answers.
Dungeons, Dragons, and a fancy booth. Baldman Games just debuted their upgraded D&D area.
Congrats Avi, our first tournament winner of the weekend. You are quite good at Lost Ruins of Arnak and your parents should be very proud.
Stop by Tabletop HQ and try out our new game recommendation kiosk, a game unto itself
Sometimes we add really weird events to the schedule
Good morning, PAX East. For the first time at East, our Deception Zone events have digital registration, via the PAX Nav app. Starts at 8AM!
How to get there? Click the "Register" circle within any such event. Alternatively, an "Event Registration" link will appear down in the Interact tab at 8AM.
Just shared them to the feed here!
Who wants to check out some Arcadian Brush painting contest entries? photos.app.goo.gl/xM6C426YFFQn...
Unfortunately some of our photography didn't go quite according to plan, but we've got all the measures in place now to really nail it next year. For now, just enjoy some of this amazing art!
Neither view tells a complete story, and favor games we have an oddly large or small quantity of. But when something makes both lists? You know it was hot. Congrats: Flamecraft Duals, Flow, and Harmonies.
