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Price of a single share of a number of saleable stocks paid or offered to be paid in a business combination.

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Weighted average period over which unrecognized compensation is expected to be recognized for equity-based compensation plans, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Unrecognized cost of unvested options awarded to employees as compensation.

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Additional share-based compensation cost recognized as a result of an occurrence of an event that accelerates its recognition.

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Period which an employee's right to exercise an award is no longer contingent on satisfaction of either a service condition, market condition or a performance condition, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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The estimated dividend rate (a percentage of the share price) to be paid (expected dividends) to holders of the underlying shares over the option's term.

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The estimated measure of the percentage by which a share price is expected to fluctuate during a period. Volatility also may be defined as a probability-weighted measure of the dispersion of returns about the mean. The volatility of a share price is the standard deviation of the continuously compounded rates of return on the share over a specified period. That is the same as the standard deviation of the differences in the natural logarithms of the stock prices plus dividends, if any, over the period.

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The risk-free interest rate assumption that is used in valuing an option on its own shares.

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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Gross number of share options (or share units) granted during the period.

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The weighted average grant-date fair value of options granted during the reporting period as calculated by applying the disclosed option pricing methodology.

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Expected term of share-based compensation awards, in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Stock-Based Compensation Arrangements - Additional Information (Detail) - USD ($) $ / shares in Units, $ in Thousands			2 Months Ended	10 Months Ended	12 Months Ended
	Feb. 23, 2016	Aug. 21, 2014	Feb. 14, 2014	Dec. 28, 2014	Jan. 01, 2017	Jan. 03, 2016	Jan. 15, 2014
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Dividend Rate				0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Volatility Rate				0.00%	0.00%	0.00%
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Expected Term				4 years	3 years 7 months 2 days	3 years 8 months
Predecessor [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation costs related to the accelerated vesting of restricted stock awards in connection with the Merger			$ 11,108
Successor [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Stock-based compensation costs related to the accelerated vesting of restricted stock awards in connection with the Merger				$ 0	$ 0	$ 0
Tranche B [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value				$ 1.58	$ 1.68	$ 1.44
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Risk Free Interest Rate				1.32%	0.00%	1.30%
Tranche C [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value				$ 1.01	$ 0.87	$ 0.84
Employee Stock Option [Member] \| Successor [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Granted (in shares)	67,500			2,324,870	101,110	519,414
Unrecognized share-based compensation					$ 2,400
Unrecognized share-based compensation period of recognition (in years)					2 years 9 months
Employee Stock Option [Member] \| Successor [Member] \| Tranche A [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Vesting period		5 years
ShareBasedCompensationArrangmentbyShareBasedPaymentAward,Options,PeriodtoExercisefollowingChangeinControl		12 months
Tranche A [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Options, Grants in Period, Weighted Average Grant Date Fair Value				$ 3.06	$ 2.99	$ 2.83
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award, Fair Value Assumptions, Risk Free Interest Rate				0.00%	1.09%	0.00%
CEC Entertainment, Inc. [Member] \| Successor [Member]
Share-based Compensation Arrangement by Share-based Payment Award [Line Items]
Business Acquisition, Share Price							$ 54.00