| 100% | OPENER | 6 | First game of the series |
| 75% | OPENER | 6 | First game of a series |
| 75% | OPENER | 6 | First game of the season |
| 69% | OPENER | 6 | First game of a series or season, say |
| 66% | STOLEHOME | 9 | What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series |
| 63% | ZELDA | 5 | The Legend of ___ (video game series) |
| 62% | REDSOX | 6 | Winner of the first World Series (as the "Americans") |
| 62% | TET | 3 | ___ris was one of the first video games made |
| 62% | ODDS | 4 | "The Wizard of ___" (punnily titled series that was Alex Trebek's first US game show) |
| 61% | AISFORALIBI | 11 | Title of the first book in the 17-Across series |
| 60% | SWEEP | 5 | Win the first four World Series games |
| 60% | WILT | 4 | First name of the only player to score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 59% | GOT | 3 | First book in the series "A Song of Ice and Fire," familiarly |
| 59% | CROFT | 5 | Lara —, archaeologist heroine of the Tomb Raider series of action-adventure games |
| 59% | SPIN | 4 | First step of a turn in The Game of Life |
| 59% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 59% | ALEC | 4 | First name of the actor who's the focus of the reality series "The Baldwins" |
| 58% | CLARKSON | 8 | Kelly, who won the first series of American Idol |
| 58% | SWEEP | 5 | Win all the games of a series |
| 58% | ZELDA | 5 | The Princess of Hyrule, in a long-running Nintendo video game series |
| 57% | OPENER | 6 | First game of season |
| 56% | SWEEP | 5 | Win the first four games in a World Series, e.g. |
| 56% | ALAI | 4 | Second word of a game name that rhymes with the first |
| 56% | SAMUS | 5 | Protagonist of the Metroid video-game series |
| 56% | OPENER | 6 | First game of a doubleheader |
| 56% | COUNTERSTRIKE | 13 | Series of first-person shooter video games whose latest instalment is "Global Offensive" : Hyph. |
| 56% | LEMONY | 6 | First name on the cover of A Series of Unfortunate Events books |
| 55% | FANTASY | 7 | "Final ___: Legend of the Crystals," 1994 anime based on the video game series of the same name |
| 55% | SIMS | 4 | "The ___," series of life simulation video games |
| 55% | LIAM | 4 | Hemsworth of "The Hunger Games" series |