| 100% | CALICO | 6 | 58-Down in which players make quilts to attract cats |
| 46% | PATCHWORK | 9 | Game in which players compete to build the highest-scoring quilt |
| 39% | MARBLES | 7 | Children's game in which players "knuckle down" |
| 38% | HIHOCHERRYO | 11 | Game in which players compete to collect plastic fruit |
| 38% | HOOKSHOTS | 9 | Basketball plays in which players’ arms make an arced movement |
| 38% | EPEE | 4 | Sport in which players don't want to get tips |
| 37% | HEARTS | 6 | Game in which players tend to avoid the queen of spades |
| 37% | EIDER | 5 | Down to make a quilt |
| 36% | NEG | 3 | Put down in a misguided attempt to attract |
| 36% | STEWPOT | 7 | Huge cooking vessel in which to make casseroles |
| 36% | RAFT | 4 | Craft in which to go down a river, say |
| 36% | NOTEPAD | 7 | Low-tech item in which to jot things down |
| 36% | EGGTOSS | 7 | Game in which the first player to crack loses? |
| 35% | HALMA | 5 | Board game in which players try to transfer pieces from their own to their opponents' bases |
| 34% | ANIMALCROSSING | 14 | Video game in which players are indebted to Tom Nook |
| 34% | ASL | 3 | Syst. in which bobbing one’s fist up and down translates to “yes” |
| 34% | OLDMAID | 7 | Victorian card game in which players collect pairs and try not to be left with a penalty card |
| 33% | GAB | 3 | Mad ___, word-based board game in which the players have to guess misheard sentences |
| 33% | OPERATION | 9 | Board game in which players use tweezers to remove a funny bone |
| 33% | TIDDLYWINKS | 11 | Game in which players try to flick plastic discs into a cup by pressing on them with a squidger |
| 33% | OLD | 3 | & 20D Victorian card game in which players collect pairs and try not to be left with a penalty card |
| 33% | LESLIE | 6 | First player to make a slam dunk in a WNBA game |
| 32% | SPYFALL | 7 | Game in which one player tries to glean information from the other players without being caught |
| 32% | EGGTOSS | 7 | Game in which it's easy to make a mess |
| 32% | NUDGENUDGE | 10 | Monty Python sketch in which Eric Idle makes insinuations to Terry Jones in a pub: 2 wds. |
| 32% | JADEITE | 7 | Green mineral which was used to make axe heads in the Stone Age |
| 32% | FIRSTTWOLETTERS | 15 | What each Down answer needs from its clue in order to make sense |
| 31% | NIM | 3 | Game for two in which players take turns to remove matches from several rows |
| 31% | SLOTH | 5 | *Slow animal found hanging upside down in the Amazon... and which sleeps for up to 18 hours each day |