| 100% | IMISSED | 7 | "That one didn't hit the target" |
| 61% | START | 5 | "We Didn't ___ the Fire," 1989 hit by Billy Joel that peaked at number one on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 from his album "Storm Front" |
| 60% | BUST | 4 | One that didn't live up to the hype |
| 57% | MISSES | 6 | Doesn't hit the target |
| 57% | AROSE | 5 | Didn't hit the snooze button |
| 56% | NAIL | 4 | One that gets hit on the head |
| 55% | BIRTHDAYKICK | 12 | Complaint that one didn't get enough presents? |
| 53% | FLIEDOUT | 8 | Hit one that was caught on the warning track, say |
| 52% | AKON | 4 | One-named singer with the 2006 hit "Smack That" |
| 52% | CONNECTS | 8 | Hits the target |
| 51% | SADSONG | 7 | One of the ones that "say so much," in an Elton John hit |
| 51% | BANGAGONG | 9 | T. Rex hit that was titled “Get It On” in the U.K. |
| 50% | GOTYE | 5 | One-named singer with the hit "Somebody That I Used to Know" |
| 49% | MISS | 4 | Not hit the target |
| 49% | MISSED | 6 | Did not hit the target |
| 49% | MONSTERMASH | 11 | 1962 novelty hit that starts "I was working in the lab late one night" |
| 48% | EMOTED | 6 | Didn't hide one's feelings, to say the least |
| 47% | IMPRESSMEMUCH | 13 | "That Don't ___," one of Shania Twain's biggest ever hits, from the album "Come On Over" |
| 47% | START | 5 | "We Didn't ___ the Fire," 1989 hit by Billy Joel |
| 46% | ALSORAN | 7 | One who didn't make it to the office? |
| 46% | ALSORAN | 7 | One who didn't make it to the office |
| 46% | LINE | 4 | "I Walk the ___," 1956 song by Johnny Cash that was his first number one hit on Billboard |
| 46% | DARK | 4 | "Terminator: ___ Fate," science fiction film starring Linda Hamilton that was one of the biggest hits of 2019 |
| 46% | TMI | 3 | "I didn't need to know that!" on the internet: Abbr. |
| 46% | SHELOVESYOU | 11 | Hit that one critic called "the original 'Yeah, Yeah, Yeah' song" |
| 45% | SHOCKING | 8 | "Totally didn't see that one coming," sarcastically |
| 45% | ENDGAME | 7 | "Avengers: ___," superhero movie starring Chris Evans and Mark Ruffalo that was one of the biggest hits of 2019 |
| 45% | KING | 4 | "The Lion ___," animated movie featuring voices of Beyonce and Seth Rogen that was one of the biggest hits of 2019 |
| 45% | BEHINDBLUEEYES | 14 | 1971 hit from the Who that begins "No one knows what it's like to be the bad man" |
| 45% | BEENLIKETHIS | 12 | 30-Across and T-Pain hit song with the lyric "That type of boom-boom, that bass" (3 wds.) |