TABLETOP FREEPLAY

Seriously, we have so many tabletop games, you have no idea. We will have 6,000+ Freeplay seats and 3,000+ game library in 2024, without exaggeration. Think about all the pieces we’ll need to organize! And you just get to come enjoy it!

Look, here’s what we want you to do. Think of a tabletop game, and go to the Tabletop Library. We’ve probably got it. Check out the game. Find a table.  If you’ve come with friends, force them to play with you. It shouldn’t be hard. If you’ve come alone, we’ve got a solution for that too...ask a Tabletop Freeplay Enforcer for a Looking for Group (LFG) marker. If you know you’re going to want to try a specific game at the show, you can even plan ahead and make plans to meetup through our Board Game Geek page.

If playing for fun sounds like a waste of your incredible talents, you may be interested to know we also have an absolutely bonkers schedule of Tabletop Tournaments every PAX for your to partake in. There are so many we can’t even fit them on a sign anymore.

Oh, did we mention that many of the vendors in our tabletop freeplay area stay open later? It’s true: You can keep shopping after the expo hall closes at 6:00 PM, perfect for when you win a brand new deck of cards and seem to be short on sleeves!

You may have found this webpage, but can you figure out which one of your friends is a werewolf? Our Storytellers will guide you through games of Blood on the Clocktower, Werewolf, Two Rooms and a Boom, and more! Registration for each day's games is in-person, each morning of the show at the sign-up table just outside of the room.

Friday, 7PM-9PM

If there's one thing the board gaming community is enthusiastic about, it's buying, selling, and trading games. The PAX community has banded together to create all manner of community-run events, from a virtual game market to the vaunted "math trade" on BoardGameGeek . We've kept the Queue Room in Hall C open on Friday evening so that folks can meet up and make their long-planned deals and exchanges a reality.

Check out this year's virtual game market here.

The math trade is available here.

Daily schedule entry, 10AM to close

Not sure what to play? Check out one of over 3,000 games available in our library, and then play in our "Tabletop Freeplay" open gaming area. When the Gaming Hall is full, check upstairs in Terrace Ballroom (Level 4) for over a thousand additional Freeplay seats, as well as downstairs in Level 1 for additional Freeplay space (Rooms 121 and 122) and Quiet Freeplay (Room 123).

If you'd like to schedule a game to play with other PAX attendees, make a post to the community game scheduler.