| 100% | SCYTHE | 6 | Board game named after the reaper's weapon |
| 65% | CRANIUM | 7 | Board game named after the skull |
| 51% | OTHELLO | 7 | Board game named after a Shakespeare play |
| 51% | CARTAGENA | 9 | Board game named after a Colombian city |
| 50% | PACHISI | 7 | Game named after the Hindi word for "twenty-five" |
| 47% | MYST | 4 | 1990s computer game named after the fictional island where it was set |
| 45% | RISK | 4 | Board game originally named "The Conquest of the World" |
| 45% | CLUE | 4 | 1985 movie based on a murder mystery board game of the same name where players identify the killer, their weapon, and the scene of crime |
| 43% | CAVITYSAM | 9 | Patient’s name in the board game Operation |
| 42% | STEELYDAN | 9 | Band named after the steam-powered sex toy in William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch |
| 42% | CAVITYSAM | 9 | Name of the patient in the board game Operation |
| 41% | SEPIA | 5 | Pigment named after the common cuttlefish's genus |
| 41% | ROPE | 4 | Weapon in the board game Clue |
| 41% | MTADAMS | 7 | Washington peak named after the second U.S. president |
| 41% | ROSE | 4 | Color named after the thorny Valentine's Day flower |
| 40% | JFK | 3 | NYC airport named after the 35th U.S. president: Abbr. |
| 39% | ESSO | 4 | Brand named after the pronunciation of its parent company's initials |
| 39% | KNOX | 4 | Kentucky fort named after the first U.S. Secretary of War |
| 39% | CRATER | 6 | Oregon park named after the USA's deepest lake |
| 38% | TOOTSIEROLL | 11 | Snack item named after the inventor's 6-year-old daughter |
| 38% | CATAN | 5 | Board game that dropped "The Settlers of" from its name |
| 38% | OTHELLO | 7 | Board game named for a Shakespeare character |
| 38% | ECUADOR | 7 | Country named after the equator |
| 38% | SELENIUM | 8 | Element named after the moon |
| 38% | MONDAY | 6 | Time named after the moon |
| 37% | HALL | 4 | Room in the board game Clue with the shortest name |
| 37% | SARA | 4 | With 55-Down, corporation named after the founder's daughter |
| 37% | ENOLAGAY | 8 | Second World War bomber named after the pilot’s mother |
| 37% | IVES | 4 | First major publisher of board games in the U.S. |
| 37% | SCYTHE | 6 | The Grim Reaper's weapon of choice |