| 100% | CRANIUM | 7 | Board game named after the skull |
| 77% | SCYTHE | 6 | Board game named after the reaper's weapon |
| 62% | OTHELLO | 7 | Board game named after a Shakespeare play |
| 62% | CARTAGENA | 9 | Board game named after a Colombian city |
| 60% | PACHISI | 7 | Game named after the Hindi word for "twenty-five" |
| 57% | MYST | 4 | 1990s computer game named after the fictional island where it was set |
| 54% | RISK | 4 | Board game originally named "The Conquest of the World" |
| 51% | CAVITYSAM | 9 | Name of the patient in the board game Operation |
| 46% | CATAN | 5 | Board game that dropped "The Settlers of" from its name |
| 46% | OTHELLO | 7 | Board game named for a Shakespeare character |
| 45% | ECUADOR | 7 | Country named after the equator |
| 45% | SELENIUM | 8 | Element named after the moon |
| 45% | MONDAY | 6 | Time named after the moon |
| 45% | HALL | 4 | Room in the board game Clue with the shortest name |
| 45% | CAVITYSAM | 9 | Patient’s name in the board game Operation |
| 45% | HORSE | 5 | Hoops game named after an animal |
| 45% | UNO | 3 | Card game named after a number |
| 45% | DECEMBER | 8 | Month named after the number ten |
| 45% | MAUVE | 5 | Color named after the mallow flower |
| 45% | EASTER | 6 | Holiday named after the goddess Eostre |
| 45% | CERULEAN | 8 | Blue color named after the sky |
| 45% | URANIUM | 7 | Element named after the seventh planet |
| 45% | NOBEL | 5 | Award named after the dynamite inventor |
| 45% | NOV | 3 | Mo. named after the number nine |
| 45% | SEP | 3 | Mo. named after the number seven |
| 44% | COAL | 4 | ___ car, red train card in the board game "Ticket to Ride" that is named after a fossil fuel |
| 44% | OUIJA | 5 | 2014 film franchise based on a sinister board game of the same name that some use to speak to ghosts |
| 44% | TICKETTORIDE | 12 | Board game named for a Beatles song: 3 wds. |
| 44% | LOMBARDI | 8 | Vince —, American football coach after whom the trophy for the Super Bowl championship game is named |
| 44% | MARCOPOLO | 9 | Pool tag game named after an explorer |