| 100% | TRIVIA | 6 | A quizzing game involving interesting facts |
| 44% | CLUE | 4 | Game involving a rope |
| 42% | PAPERTOSS | 9 | Office game involving a wastebasket |
| 42% | DIABOLO | 7 | Game involving spinning a top on a string |
| 41% | HANGMAN | 7 | Popular word game involving a stick figure |
| 40% | TRIVIA | 6 | Unimportant, but interesting, facts for quizzing |
| 40% | ROULETTE | 8 | Gambling game involving a wheel and a ball |
| 40% | PAPERTOSS | 9 | Time-killing office game involving a trash can |
| 40% | MYSTERYDATE | 11 | Game that involves opening a door |
| 39% | CATCH | 5 | Simple game involving tossing a ball back and forth |
| 39% | ISLE | 4 | The ___ of Cats (board game involving a boat rescue) |
| 39% | KERPLUNK | 8 | Mattel board game involving marbles dropping down a tube |
| 39% | SNAKE | 5 | Classic mobile game involving slithering around a playing field |
| 38% | ARE | 3 | American quiz game show "___ You Smarter than a 5th Grader?" |
| 38% | FETCH | 5 | Game played with 14a, often involving a stick |
| 37% | CATANDMOUSE | 11 | *Like a game that involves evasive subterfuge |
| 37% | CONNECTFOUR | 11 | Game involving dropping discs ... or a description of 17-, 30-, 37-, and 45-Across? |
| 37% | NEAT | 4 | Response to a mildly interesting fact |
| 37% | HORSE | 5 | Casual hoops game that involves spelling a word |
| 36% | POKER | 5 | Card game involving folding and pairs, where you may keep a straight face |
| 36% | SCORELINE | 9 | Figures of interest at the end of a game? |
| 36% | MOUSETRAP | 9 | Board game that involves building a Rube Goldberg machine |
| 36% | SNAPSTHEWHIP | 12 | Plays a kids' game involving centrifugal force |
| 35% | NIM | 3 | Age-old game that involves drawing sticks from a heap |
| 34% | MINECRAFT | 9 | Video game that involves building with blocks in a 3D environment |
| 34% | OPERATION | 9 | Classic kids' game involving removal of body parts ... with a hint to this puzzle's theme |
| 33% | CREWTEAM | 8 | Unit involved in a shell game? |
| 33% | COINTOSS | 8 | Way to start a game that might involve flipping a quarter: 2 wds. |
| 33% | SCRABBLE | 8 | Board game from Hasbro, which involves forming words with tiles on a grid |
| 32% | POOL | 4 | Game involving banks |