| 100% | SHOT | 4 | An attempt to score ina game |
| 49% | WILT | 4 | First name of the only player to score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 49% | SHOT | 4 | Attempt to score |
| 49% | SHOTONGOAL | 10 | Attempt to score |
| 48% | EARL | 4 | Cager Boykins who's the shortest player to score 30 points in an NBA game |
| 48% | COMINGHOME | 10 | Attempting to score? (1978) |
| 47% | SLIDINGSHOT | 11 | Attempt to score in hockey? |
| 47% | SHOOT | 5 | Attempt to score in basketball |
| 47% | TRY | 3 | Attempt to score in rugby |
| 47% | SHOTS | 5 | Attempts to score, in hockey |
| 46% | POWERGRAB | 9 | An attempt to take control: 2 wds. |
| 45% | SETSHOTS | 8 | What are still attempts to score? |
| 44% | WILT | 4 | Chamberlain who is still the only person to ever score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 44% | CROUCHING | 9 | Squatting down in an attempt to hide |
| 43% | FRIENDREQUEST | 13 | Attempt to establish an online connection |
| 42% | DOWNPLAY | 8 | Attempt to minimize an issue's importance |
| 42% | SPEEDRUNS | 9 | Attempts to blast through a video game |
| 42% | BISMARCKND | 10 | Midwest city named in an attempt to attract German settlers |
| 41% | TEAMBUS | 7 | Ground transportation to an away game |
| 41% | UNEARNED | 8 | Scored due to an error |
| 40% | MSG | 3 | Additive synthesized in an attempt to replicate the taste of kombu: abbr. |
| 39% | SOFTBALL | 8 | Game using an underhand pitch to batters |
| 39% | UNEARNED | 8 | Scored due to an error, in baseball |
| 39% | WOOT | 4 | "Yay!" to an internet gamer |
| 38% | LOVEALL | 7 | Score of a tennis game about to begin |
| 38% | APGAR | 5 | Score given to an infant shortly after birth |
| 38% | TIED | 4 | Like a game with an even score |
| 37% | EMUS | 4 | Australia declared "war" on them in 1932, in an attempt to stop them from destroying crops |
| 37% | GAMIFY | 6 | Add rules and scoring to an activity |
| 37% | EXIT | 4 | Button to hit to quit an online game |