| 100% | ADAGIO | 6 | How "Moon River" is played |
| 66% | BYEAR | 5 | How some music is played |
| 66% | ALONE | 5 | How a solo is played |
| 66% | BYEAR | 5 | How some things are played |
| 66% | ALONE | 5 | How solo games are played |
| 64% | ALONE | 5 | How solitaire is usually played |
| 59% | ALLABREVE | 9 | How "Lili Marlene" is played |
| 58% | ALONE | 5 | How solitaire is played |
| 55% | LENTO | 5 | How a nocturne is often played |
| 51% | PROGNOSIS | 9 | Prediction of how an illness will play out |
| 51% | STACCATO | 8 | How dotted notes should be played |
| 50% | ALLEGRO | 7 | How "Waltzing Matilda" is to be played |
| 49% | TOADRAW | 7 | How some soccer games are played (3 wds.) |
| 48% | SOLO | 4 | How one-player games are played |
| 48% | DAWNADDAMS | 10 | English actress who played Cynthia Slater in 1953 romcom The Moon is Blue |
| 47% | SOLO | 4 | How some board games may be played |
| 47% | ADDAMS | 6 | Dawn —, English actress who played Cynthia Slater in 1953 romcom The Moon is Blue |
| 47% | POOL | 4 | Where Marco Polo is played |
| 47% | POOL | 4 | Where water polo is played |
| 47% | COURT | 5 | Site where tennis is played |
| 47% | ICERINK | 7 | Where hockey games are played |
| 47% | RECESS | 6 | When dodgeball may be played |
| 47% | IMAGE | 5 | Picture one game being played |
| 47% | DENS | 4 | Rooms where games are played |
| 47% | ROAD | 4 | Where away games are played |
| 47% | JAZZ | 4 | Genre that "remains distinguishable not by what is played but by how it is played," according to Encyclopedia Britannica |
| 47% | ONNOW | 5 | Being played currently |
| 46% | ANDY | 4 | Moon River singer Williams |
| 46% | JAPAN | 5 | Where "besuboru" is played |
| 45% | ONAHOP | 6 | How some ground balls may be played (3 wds.) |