| 100% | ACES | 4 | Cards in a deck which can beat the king in some games |
| 45% | HEARTS | 6 | Card game in which you can "shoot the moon" |
| 45% | WAR | 3 | Simple card game in which aces beat kings |
| 43% | BRIDGE | 6 | Card game in which you could play a clash squeeze |
| 43% | ACE | 3 | King topper card in a deck |
| 43% | ACE | 3 | The first card in a deck |
| 43% | SPADE | 5 | A tool which is also one of the black suits in a deck of cards |
| 42% | ACE | 3 | Card that can't lose a match-up in the card game war |
| 41% | ACE | 3 | Top card that can beat the king |
| 41% | ACE | 3 | Card that can beat a king |
| 41% | ACE | 3 | One of the four highest cards in a deck |
| 41% | ACE | 3 | Most valuable card in a deck, the ___ of spades |
| 40% | PRIMERO | 7 | Gambling card game fashionable in the 16th-century played with a 40-card deck |
| 40% | DEUCESWILD | 10 | Card game declaration, and a hint to what can be found in the four other longest answers |
| 40% | ACE | 3 | Card that loses to a 2 in some games |
| 39% | ACE | 3 | The highest or the lowest card in a card game |
| 39% | SPADES | 6 | The diggers in a deck of cards |
| 38% | DIAMONDS | 8 | With Hearts, the red suits in a deck of cards |
| 38% | DIAMONDS | 8 | One of the red suits in a deck of cards |
| 37% | SKAT | 4 | Card game in which jacks are the top four trumps |
| 37% | LEG | 3 | Limb with which you would kick the ball in a game of soccer |
| 37% | KNAVES | 6 | Alternative name for the jacks in a deck of cards |
| 36% | ECARTE | 6 | Game in which the lowest card is 7 |
| 36% | CHARADES | 8 | Game in which only the guessers can speak |
| 36% | BOGGLE | 6 | Flummox ... or a classic word game represented by the central grid of shaded squares, in which 15-, 17- and 55-Across can be found |
| 36% | BINGO | 5 | Game in which each player gets a single card |
| 36% | AXE | 3 | Weapon held by the king of diamonds, in most decks of cards |
| 36% | OLDMAID | 7 | Card game in which you try to avoid the spinster |
| 35% | SPADE | 5 | One of the suits in a deck of cards, also word for shovel |
| 35% | PAIROFJOKERS | 12 | Cards #53 and #54 in a deck ... or a hint to the answers to 19-, 26-, 35- and 47-Across |