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These Games Are Not For Sale celebrates artful games made for the sake of it. This one-day festival inside PAX Unplugged will spotlight games that money can’t buy. Come experience games, not buy them: 🚫🪙🚫🪙🚫 🎲✂️ 🪙🚫🪙🚫🪙 🗺️ Pennsylvania Convention Center 📍 Terrace Ballroom 🗓️ Saturday, Dec 5 🕙 10am-10pm

Lots of folks apply for booths at PAX, but most don't get accepted. The best feeling is when space frees up and we can offer it to a small company. A few years ago, we chose an interesting new came called Gudnak.

We got stats. And @cmyk.games has the crown.

Unpub at PAX Unplugged reserved tables are now available for purchase! These tables are for designers to save a spot; playtesters never need a reservation 💙 https://f.mtr.cool/v19f27pvc5

Can we have one more turn, please?

The application to be a vendor at the Indie Games Night Market at PAX Unplugged in December is now live! www.newmillindustries.com/ignm-app

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)

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My son is on a sugar rampage, you guys

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

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.

Entertaining the @officialpax.bsky.social masses, one line at a time. 😎 @lineentertainment.bsky.social #PAXEast #PAXEast2026 #LineEntertainment #whimsy

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