| 100% | DENSER | 6 | Harder to follow, as prose |
| 77% | COLDER | 6 | Harder to follow, as a trail |
| 61% | EVASIVE | 7 | Hard to follow |
| 60% | CLEARASMUD | 10 | Hard to follow, facetiously |
| 57% | CHASE | 5 | Affair gets hard to follow |
| 56% | ACT | 3 | It may be hard to follow |
| 56% | ACT | 3 | One may be hard to follow |
| 56% | BABYTALK | 8 | Speech that's hard to follow |
| 56% | MONTE | 5 | Game that's hard to follow |
| 55% | SAGEST | 6 | Best to follow, as advice |
| 55% | TOUGH | 5 | Hard to chew, as steak |
| 55% | LAME | 4 | Hard to believe, as excuses |
| 55% | PERMANENT | 9 | Hard to erase, as markers |
| 55% | TIGHT | 5 | Hard to remove, as jeans |
| 54% | TALLER | 6 | Harder to believe, as tales go |
| 54% | RARER | 5 | Harder to find, as a collectible |
| 54% | KNOTTY | 6 | Hard to saw, as some pine |
| 54% | RARE | 4 | Hard to find, as some birds |
| 54% | DIM | 3 | Hard to read by, as light |
| 54% | TALL | 4 | Hard to believe, as a tale |
| 54% | LAME | 4 | Hard to believe, as an excuse |
| 54% | STEEPEST | 8 | Hardest to climb, as a mountain |
| 54% | HAUNTING | 8 | Hard to forget, as a melody |
| 53% | INKIER | 6 | Harder to see through, as ocean waters |
| 53% | ONESTEP | 7 | Very easy to follow, as instructions: Hyph. |
| 53% | STEEP | 5 | Hard to climb, as an icy hill |
| 50% | GOESDARK | 8 | Becomes hard to reach, as a spy |
| 50% | FOGSUP | 6 | Becomes hard to use, as a windshield |
| 50% | YARE | 4 | Not hard to handle, as a ship |
| 47% | TRACED | 6 | Followed back to its source, as a phone call |