| 100% | ATARI | 5 | Developer of 1982's E.T., a video game so bad that hundreds of thousands of unsold cartridges were secretly buried in a New Mexico landfill |
| 27% | THELASTOF | 9 | "___ Us," one of the best-selling PlayStation video games released in 2013 that is set in a post-apocalyptic U.S.: 3 wds. |
| 25% | WII | 3 | "___ Sports," one of the best-selling video games released in 2006 that was published for Nintendo's gaming console |
| 25% | LAIR | 4 | Dragon's ___, '80s video game with a knight as the protagonist that is seen in "Stranger Things" |
| 24% | SSN | 3 | Tom Clancy's '96 techno-thriller novel about a nuclear attack sub that tied in with a video game of the same name |
| 24% | ATARI | 5 | Company that buried 700,000+ unsold video games in 1983 |
| 24% | LAST | 4 | "The ___ of Us," TV adaptation of a video game series, whose release date is in 2023 |
| 24% | BALL | 4 | Spherical object used in a winter game that is made of 14a |
| 24% | HANDFUL | 7 | "I will show you fear in a __ of dust": T S Eliot |
| 23% | AZTECRUINS | 10 | Historical site in New Mexico that was declared as a U.S. National Monument in 1923 and has Ancestral Puebloan structures: 2 wds. |
| 23% | LITTLE | 6 | "___ Nightmares," horror video game series that follows the journey of a girl in a yellow raincoat |
| 23% | MINECRAFT | 9 | Best-selling video game of all time released in 2011 that features a pixelated 3D world |
| 23% | ARABIAN | 7 | "___ Nights," collection of folk tales like "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" which was adapted into a video game in 1985 |
| 23% | RULES | 5 | Let's start our world tour with Australia! Tune in to a game of Australian ___ football, contact sport that is extremely popular in Australia (1/3) |
| 22% | CALL | 4 | "___ of Duty: Black Ops," one of the best-selling video games released in 2010 that is set during the Cold War |
| 22% | MATTE | 5 | Mask used to blank out part of an image in a film so that another can be superimposed |
| 22% | TRON | 4 | 1982 movie about a video game developer |
| 22% | UNCOMMITTED | 11 | Option that hundreds of thousands of voters selected on their primary-election ballots in 2024 |
| 22% | OPENTOE | 7 | Kind of shoe that shouldn't be worn in a factory |
| 22% | SYNDROME | 8 | Science fiction survival horror video game, released in 2016 be Camel 101, that takes place inside a drifting space ship |
| 22% | TEACHES | 7 | Chessmaster is a video game that __ chess |
| 22% | PAGE | 4 | "Tomorrow is the first ___ in a book of 365" (common New Year's phrase) |
| 22% | AUTO | 4 | "Grand Theft ___ V," one of the best-selling video games released in 2013 that is set in the fictional state of San Andreas |
| 22% | MAKUTUED | 8 | A type of New Zealand spell that's been cast |
| 22% | LADAS | 5 | New cars that will save you 20 to 50 thousand rubles in June, if you have a trade in |
| 22% | MOD | 3 | Alteration of a video game, in gamer lingo |
| 21% | DETROITLIONS | 12 | NFC North squad that is one of four NFL teams that plays their home games in a fixed-roof stadium: 2 wds. |
| 21% | THEJEFFERSONS | 13 | Sitcom set in New York city that was a spin-off of "All in the Family" (2 wds.) |
| 21% | WILD | 4 | "The Witcher 3: ___ Hunt," one of the best-selling video games released in 2015 that is set in the fantasy world known as the Continent |
| 21% | NINE | 4 | Number of innings in a baseball game that doesn't end in a tie |