| 100% | DICEMINER | 9 | Game with a mountain-shaped board on "Smithsonian" magazine's list of best board games of 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 77% | THEINITIATIVE | 13 | Mission-based game on "Smithsonian" magazine's list of best board games of 2021 (2 wds.) |
| 72% | LANDVSSEA | 9 | Map-based tile game on "Smithsonian" magazine's list of best board games of 2021 (3 wds.) |
| 40% | DANNYTREJO | 10 | "Machete" actor who zip-lined down a mountain on "Running Wild With Bear Grylls" in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 40% | HEATHLEDGER | 11 | "Brokeback Mountain" actor who is on Lindsay Lohan's list of 36 ex-lovers: 2 wds. |
| 40% | MAINMENU | 8 | List of basic options, on a computer: 2 wds. |
| 39% | DEREKHOUGH | 10 | "Dancing With the Stars" dancer who's a judge on "World of Dance": 2 wds. |
| 38% | TODO | 4 | Kind of a list with tasks: 2 wds. |
| 37% | CANDYLAND | 9 | Board game with the Peppermint Stick Forest and the Gumdrop Mountain in the National Toy Hall of Fame (2 wds.) |
| 37% | JIMMIEALLEN | 11 | "Best Shot" singer who collaborated with Brad Paisley on the 2021 country hit "Freedom Was a Highway": 2 wds. |
| 37% | COLLEENHOOVER | 13 | Young adult and romance novelist with a string of best sellers starting with 2012's "Hopeless": 2 wds. |
| 37% | HONKYCHATEAU | 12 | 1972 Elton John album ranked 251 on "Rolling Stone" magazine's list of 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2 wds.) |
| 37% | JOHNLEGEND | 10 | "All of Me" singer who's back, along with Gwen Stefani, as a veteran coach on "The Voice": 2 wds. |
| 36% | GOODGOLLY | 9 | With 48-Across, 1958 Little Richard hit that's #94 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time: 2 wds. |
| 36% | SCHEDULE | 8 | List of a team's games |
| 36% | CANDYLAND | 9 | Board game for young children with the Gumdrop Mountains and gingerbread-man tokens: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MOUSETRAP | 9 | Contraption-building board game with a plastic boot, bucket, and bathtub: 2 wds. |
| 36% | BUGSBUNNY | 9 | Animated rabbit with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 36% | THESIMPSONS | 11 | Springfield cartoon family with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 36% | ANDREABOCELLI | 13 | Blind Italian tenor with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 36% | MICKEYMOUSE | 11 | Walt Disney rodent with a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame: 2 wds. |
| 35% | MOUSETRAP | 9 | Board game with rodent-shaped pieces: 2 wds. |
| 35% | DANICAPATRICK | 13 | Race car driver who ate a scorpion on "Running Wild With Bear Grylls" in 2021: 2 wds. |
| 35% | RICHARDDAWSON | 13 | "Family Feud" host who was a regular panelist on the 1970s version of "Match Game": 2 wds. |
| 35% | NEEDFOR | 7 | "___ Speed," Dominic Cooper movie based on a video game of the same name: 2 wds. |
| 35% | LAURENGRAHAM | 12 | Actress who played a woman with a coveted speed-dial list on "Seinfeld," but is better known as Lorelai on "Gilmore Girls" (2 wds.) |
| 35% | FRANKTHOMAS | 11 | Hall of Famer with the White Sox, Blue Jays, and A's who played 56% of his games as a designated hitter: 2 wds. |
| 35% | JOAQUINPHOENIX | 14 | "Her" actor who is on Lohan's list of ex-lovers: 2 wds. |
| 35% | FANNIEFLAGG | 11 | Red-headed comic actress who was a regular panelist on the 1970s version of "Match Game": 2 wds. |
| 35% | DIRTYMONEY | 10 | Netflix docuseries with six episodes, each focusing on a different chapter of corporate corruption: 2 wds. |