| 100% | GELT | 4 | Chocolate money won or lost in this puzzle's game |
| 44% | BADMINTONNET | 12 | Divider in this puzzle's game |
| 44% | TENS | 4 | There are 16 used in this puzzle's card game |
| 41% | BET | 3 | You either lose or win money with this |
| 39% | TICTACTOE | 9 | Game with half a dozen winning lines found in this puzzle |
| 37% | BREAKBACK | 9 | Win a game immediately after losing one's serve, in tennis |
| 37% | GELT | 4 | Money won in a game of dreidel |
| 36% | FOLLOWTHELEADER | 15 | Game played in this puzzle? |
| 35% | MYTHS | 5 | The answers to the starred clues in this puzzle … or are they? |
| 35% | RAMP | 4 | What each circled model in this puzzle ascends or descends, and what's spelled by the letters where the models cross |
| 35% | MONOPOLY | 8 | In this board game, collect money as you pass Go |
| 35% | WHACAMOLE | 9 | Game represented visually in this puzzle |
| 35% | BALANCHINE | 10 | George, in this puzzle's theme |
| 35% | PLANET | 6 | Item in this puzzle's theme |
| 35% | EAGLE | 5 | Score in this puzzle's theme |
| 35% | ERA | 3 | Time, in this puzzle's theme |
| 35% | FERMI | 5 | Pioneer in this puzzle's theme |
| 35% | STREAKS | 7 | These can be winning or losing |
| 35% | PRIMETIMEEMMY | 13 | What each of the programs in this puzzle has won at least once |
| 35% | REDEFINED | 9 | Like nine words in this puzzle, or what their first letters spell out |
| 35% | BLACKJACK | 9 | In this card game, you lose if you go over 21 |
| 34% | ETC | 3 | Hidden element in this puzzle's theme |
| 34% | BROKENBONES | 11 | Fractures found in this puzzle's circles |
| 34% | STRINGTRIO | 10 | Ensemble playing in this puzzle's circles |
| 34% | GHOST | 5 | Spirit featured in this puzzle's theme |
| 34% | NOPIECEOFCAKE | 13 | What a chef might call each dessert featured in this puzzle, literally or figuratively |
| 34% | BENSTEINS | 9 | Win whose money, in a bygone game show? |
| 34% | THREELETTERWORD | 15 | Something not found in this puzzle's answer |
| 34% | VOWEL | 5 | Every other letter in this puzzle's grid(!) |
| 34% | NONE | 4 | Number of Qs in this puzzle's grid |