| 100% | IVES | 4 | First major publisher of board games in the U.S. |
| 45% | CAR | 3 | One of 52 million in the U. S. |
| 44% | SEE | 3 | Word in the first line of the U.S. national anthem |
| 44% | ORE | 3 | Resource in The Settlers of Catan board game |
| 43% | ORE | 3 | Resource in the board game The Settlers of Catan |
| 43% | ALI | 3 | First boxer in the US Olympics Hall of Fame |
| 43% | IKE | 3 | Nickname of the first U.S. president born in 7-Down |
| 42% | LOS | 3 | First word in the name of the U.S.'s most populous county |
| 42% | SAMOAN | 6 | Nonvoting member in the U.S. House of Representatives |
| 42% | SHERYL | 6 | I wrote "Lean In" and became the first woman to join Facebook's board of directors |
| 42% | PAWN | 4 | The first piece usually moved in a game of chess |
| 41% | WANG | 4 | Designer in the U.S. Figure Skating Hall of Fame |
| 41% | DOH | 3 | In tonic sol-fa, the first degree of any major scale |
| 41% | OERTER | 6 | Al ___, discus thrower in the U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame |
| 41% | COLIN | 5 | ___ Powell, retired general in the U. S. Army who was honored with his second Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1993 |
| 41% | OPEN | 4 | Make the first bid in a game of bridge |
| 41% | STOLEHOME | 9 | What Jackie Robinson did, famously, in the first game of the 1955 World Series |
| 41% | TCCHEN | 6 | Scorer of the first double eagle in U.S. Open history, 1985 |
| 41% | LAHR | 4 | Co-star in the U.S. premiere of "Waiting for Godot," 1956 |
| 41% | SMITH | 5 | Most common surname in the U.S. (ahead of Johnson and Williams) |
| 40% | OLYMPIC | 7 | The first modern one of these games was in Greece |
| 40% | SPIN | 4 | First step of a turn in The Game of Life |
| 40% | PAWN | 4 | Usually the first piece moved in a game of chess |
| 40% | GARY | 4 | ___ Woodland, American golfer who won his first major championship, the U.S. Open in 2019 |
| 40% | ROLLINGSTONE | 12 | First publisher of Hunter S. Thompson's "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" |
| 40% | OBERLIN | 7 | First coeducational college in the U.S. |
| 40% | WILT | 4 | First name of the only player to score 100 points in an NBA game |
| 39% | GOLF | 4 | Game in which a certain tournament's champions put on aptly colorful jackets (you can find this tournament in the first letters of this puzzle's circled colors) |
| 39% | CRUISER | 7 | Type of ship in the board game Battleship |
| 39% | CHESS | 5 | Board game featured in the Netflix miniseries "The Queen's Gambit" |