| 100% | WAR | 3 | "That mad game the world so loves to play," to Jonathan Swift |
| 43% | MUDPOODLE | 9 | Dog that loves to play in the rain? |
| 38% | WII | 3 | Video game console that had the slogan "Experience a new way to play" |
| 38% | WII | 3 | Video game console that used the slogan "Experience a new way to play" |
| 38% | ORGAN | 5 | Instrument that plays "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" |
| 37% | ODE | 3 | "___ to Joy" (Beethoven work that plays during the "Everybody Loves Raymond" opening credits) |
| 36% | METS | 4 | MLB team that had the worst regular-season record of any team to play in the World Series |
| 36% | KISS | 4 | "___ Me," song by Sixpence None the Richer that was the first song Taylor Swift learned to play on guitar |
| 35% | DEMONSLAIR | 10 | Role-playing game that takes place in the world of Terrania |
| 35% | RISK | 4 | Game played across the world |
| 34% | THENETHERLANDS | 14 | European country that legalized same-sex marriage on April 1, 2001, the first country in the world to do so (2 wds.) |
| 34% | GULLIVER | 8 | The Jonathan Swift character who went to Lilliput |
| 34% | 52PICKUP | 8 | Game that people rarely agree to play twice |
| 34% | DATE | 4 | Play the field, so to speak |
| 33% | ICHIROSUZUKI | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,653 regular-season games with the Mariners, Yankees, and Marlins: 2 wds. |
| 33% | RAFAELPALMEIRO | 14 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,831 regular-season games with the Cubs, Rangers, and Orioles: 2 wds. |
| 33% | HOUSTONASTROS | 13 | Minute Maid Park team that won the 2022 World Series four games to two over the Philadelphia Phillies (2 wds.) |
| 33% | SUPINATE | 8 | To turn the hand so that it faces upward |
| 33% | ROADTRIP | 8 | Opportunity to play the license plate game |
| 33% | AZTEC | 5 | Culture that introduced popcorn to the world |
| 33% | POOL | 4 | Place to play the game Marco Polo |
| 33% | DOMINO | 6 | One knocks over the rest; tile used to play games |
| 33% | KENGRIFFEYJR | 12 | He never made it to the World Series despite playing in 2,671 regular-season games with the Mariners, Reds, and White Sox: 3 wds., abbr. |
| 33% | AMORE | 5 | That feeling "when the world seems to shine like you've had too much wine" |
| 32% | OWLET | 5 | Bird that's still getting wise to the world? |
| 32% | ENDSIT | 6 | Puts the game away, so to speak |
| 32% | SLIME | 5 | Sticky stuff kids love to play with, and a word that rhymes with "time" |
| 32% | SEGA | 4 | Game company that once used the slogan "Welcome to the next level" |
| 32% | DICE | 4 | Six-sided game cubes that are used to play Monopoly |
| 32% | ESSEN | 5 | City that hosts the world's biggest annual game fair |