| 100% | SAXOPHONE | 9 | Instrument that must be played with the mouth |
| 57% | SITAR | 5 | Instrument that may be played with a mizrab |
| 56% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument played with the mouth |
| 53% | SNAREDRUM | 9 | Percussion instrument that may be played with sticks or brushes |
| 53% | JAWHARP | 7 | Lamellophone instrument played with the mouth |
| 49% | CELLO | 5 | Stringed instrument that rests on the floor while being played |
| 49% | PIANO | 5 | Keyed instrument that can be played by two people at the same time |
| 49% | ORAL | 4 | Concerning the mouth, health that a dentist would be concerned with |
| 44% | UKE | 3 | Instrument that may be played at a luau |
| 44% | NOEXIT | 6 | Play with the line "Hell is other people" |
| 43% | JUG | 3 | Instrument that might be played alongside spoons and a stovepipe |
| 43% | DRUM | 4 | Instrument that frequently plays the backbeat |
| 43% | ALTO | 4 | ___ saxophone, woodwind instrument that is played with a single-reed mouthpiece |
| 42% | CHIMES | 6 | Bell-like instruments that may be "played" by the wind |
| 42% | NATIVESON | 9 | Best-selling 1940 novel that was adapted into a film, with its author playing the protagonist, in 1951 |
| 42% | JEWSHARP | 8 | Instrument played in the mouth |
| 42% | SNARE | 5 | Drum that can be played with a brush |
| 42% | LIMBO | 5 | Game that might be played with a stick |
| 42% | INS | 3 | Connections with the powers that be |
| 41% | KAZOO | 5 | Instrument that might be made with a comb and wax paper |
| 41% | STRUM | 5 | Playing the instrument with fingers |
| 41% | BELLS | 5 | "Jingle ___," iconic Christmas carol that was the first song played on musical instruments in space by Gemini 6 astronauts in 1965 |
| 41% | OBOE | 4 | Instrument that plays the duck in "Peter and the Wolf" |
| 41% | ISPY | 4 | Game that can be played with whatever’s lying around |
| 41% | ORGAN | 5 | Instrument that plays "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" |
| 40% | LIP | 3 | Part of the mouth that can be pierced |
| 40% | NIM | 3 | Strategy game that can be played with matchsticks |
| 40% | CLAY | 4 | Material that can be sculpted with the hands |
| 40% | TENPINBOWLING | 13 | Popular sport played with a ball that has three holes and whose history has been traced back to the Egyptians living in 3200 BCE: 3 wds. |
| 40% | UKE | 3 | Instrument that might be used to play "Hi'ilawe," for short |