| 100% | FOLLOWTHELEADER | 15 | Game of mimicking who's first in line |
| 47% | THERES | 6 | First word of Dorothy's last line in Oz |
| 47% | APPARENT | 8 | Heir __; first in line of royal succession |
| 47% | IVES | 4 | First major publisher of board games in the U.S. |
| 47% | HEARSE | 6 | First in a line of cars |
| 46% | ESTELLE | 7 | Princess who's second in line of succession to the Swedish throne |
| 46% | LISALESLIE | 10 | Basketball Hall of Fame inductee who was the first player to dunk in a WNBA game: 2 wds. |
| 46% | IVANI | 5 | First in a line of Russian princes |
| 46% | JOHNI | 5 | First in a line of 23 popes |
| 46% | PILOT | 5 | First in a long line of sitcoms? |
| 46% | IVANI | 5 | First in a line of Russian autocrats |
| 46% | LEOI | 4 | First in a line of 13 popes |
| 46% | LEOI | 4 | First in a line of 14 popes |
| 45% | IVANI | 5 | First in a line of Russian grand princes |
| 44% | OMAR | 4 | Vizquel who's the only shortstop to play in four decades of MLB games |
| 44% | JOFFREY | 7 | Cersei Lannister's first son in Game of Thrones |
| 44% | SARA | 4 | First name of Mexican American actress who plays Dr. Callie Torres in Grey's Anatomy |
| 44% | NOR | 3 | Conjunction used three times in the first line of Shakespeare's Sonnet 65 |
| 44% | TWEETYBIRD | 10 | Cartoon canary who first appeared in 1942's A Tale of Two Kitties |
| 43% | LEOI | 4 | First pope in a line of 13 |
| 43% | STRATEGIC | 9 | First S in OSS, precursor of CIA |
| 43% | YGRITTE | 7 | Jon Snow's first love interest in Game of Thrones |
| 42% | TIC | 3 | First syllable in a game of X's and O's |
| 42% | KEKE | 4 | First name of actress Palmer who starred in Nope |
| 42% | REF | 3 | Someone who's in charge of a game of sport, for short |
| 41% | TAMERLANE | 9 | First ruler of the Timurid Empire who died in 1405 |
| 41% | BARNARDO | 8 | Guard who speaks the first line in Hamlet |
| 41% | ADENS | 5 | Young who played Daniel Holden in SundanceTV's "Rectify" and Adde, first president of Somalia ('60-67) |
| 41% | TORSO | 5 | Line in the game of hangman |