| 100% | WHAM | 4 | ___ageddon (game where the goal is to make it to the end of Christmas Eve without hearing "Last Christmas") |
| 41% | TAG | 3 | Playground game where the goal is to not be "it" |
| 40% | BACKROOM | 8 | Where shady deals may be made, and a hint to the ends of the starred answers |
| 40% | TAG | 3 | Game where the goal is to avoid being touched |
| 39% | BATTLESHIP | 10 | 2012 movie based on the two-player board game of the same name where the goal is to sink all of the opponent's ships |
| 37% | BEHINDTIME | 10 | Later than expected ... and where the ends of the answers to starred clues may be found |
| 36% | LEADINGQUESTION | 15 | It's designed to elicit a certain answer ... or where the end of 17-, 25- and 47-Across may be found |
| 35% | FINALIST | 8 | Player who makes it to the last round of a contest |
| 35% | FLAG | 4 | Capture the ___, children's game where the objective is to steal an object without being caught |
| 34% | RUN | 3 | "Out ___," classic arcade game released by Sega in 1986 in which the goal is to avoid traffic to reach one of five destinations |
| 34% | POTOFGOLD | 9 | It is said to be hidden at the end of the rainbow |
| 34% | INBED | 5 | Words that can be added to the end of any fortune cookie, it's said |
| 34% | RIDE | 4 | "Fasten your seat belts, it's going to be a bumpy ___," famous misquote from "All About Eve" where the last word is actually "night" |
| 34% | LAST | 4 | Make it to the end |
| 34% | LASTS | 5 | Makes it to the end |
| 34% | UTAH | 4 | State where the video game "The Last of Us" ends |
| 33% | EDEN | 4 | The garden of ___ is fabled to be where Adam and Eve lived |
| 33% | DROPLEAF | 8 | Table where the ends fall down to make it smaller |
| 33% | MAFIA | 5 | "___: The Game of Survival," based on the party game of the same name where players need to identify the "murderer" before it's too late |
| 33% | CHESS | 5 | Board game where the goal is mate |
| 32% | TOUCHDOWN | 9 | Making it to the end zone with ball in hand |
| 32% | GHENT | 5 | Belgian city where the treaty to end the War of 1812 was signed |
| 32% | PHASER | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | RAYGUN | 6 | Sci-fi weapon that makes the sounds heard at the ends of the answers to the starred clues |
| 32% | BOXING | 6 | Sport where the goal is to knock out the opponent |
| 31% | WAR | 3 | Card game where the object is to win the whole deck |
| 31% | RHONE | 5 | European river where the most southern bridge to cross it is in the city of Arles |
| 31% | SIMON | 5 | ___ Says, children's game where the objective is to follow the instructions |
| 31% | MLB | 3 | Organization of teams competing to make it to the World Series: Abbr. |
| 31% | PHOTOFINISH | 11 | End of a close race ... and what the last part of the answers to starred clues can literally be |