| 100% | ICES | 4 | Just shoots the puck untouched down the rink in any NHL game |
| 29% | TRUMP | 5 | Any spade in the card game Spades |
| 29% | HEARTS | 6 | Card game in which a player might shoot the moon |
| 29% | ROOM | 4 | Any of nine locations in the game Clue |
| 28% | AIMED | 5 | Prepared to shoot in the game "Duck Hunt," say |
| 27% | DROPPASS | 8 | Ice-hockey move in which a player skates just past the puck, leaving it for a teammate skating behind |
| 27% | LEBRON | 6 | Father in the first father-son pair to play in the same 36 Down game |
| 27% | DISTRICT | 8 | Any of 13 in "The Hunger Games" |
| 26% | GORDIEHOWE | 10 | Hartford Whalers winger who, at age 52 in 1980, became the oldest person to play in an NHL game (2 wds.) |
| 26% | CENTIPEDE | 9 | 1981 arcade game in which the player shoots bugs in a field of mushrooms |
| 26% | BOTTLE | 6 | ___ episode, TV plot device where the entire episode is shot in just one setting |
| 26% | SPY | 3 | ___ balloon (type of flying object shot down by the U.S. in February, 2023) |
| 25% | HEARTS | 6 | Card game in which you can "shoot the moon" |
| 25% | TWO | 3 | Number of referees in an NHL game |
| 25% | POT | 3 | All the chips in a poker game |
| 25% | RECEIVER | 8 | Not the server in a tennis game |
| 25% | ROLE | 4 | The "R" in RPG (video game genre) |
| 25% | STONE | 5 | Something slid down the ice in curling |
| 25% | DELAY | 5 | Slow down the Spanish in 24 hours |
| 25% | WEB | 3 | "Spins a ___, any size / Catches thieves just like flies! (lyrics in the Spider-Man theme song) |
| 25% | MAN | 3 | Shot in a video game |
| 25% | NEARTO | 6 | Just down the road from |
| 25% | LINE | 4 | Down the __; in the future |
| 24% | HASH | 4 | Something you can buy at any time of day in Frank's Diner down on the corner |
| 24% | LAVA | 4 | The floor, in a kids' game |
| 24% | LETITFLY | 8 | Shoot the ball, in hoops lingo |
| 24% | AXEL | 4 | Jump in the rink |
| 24% | GOAL | 4 | Point in the rink |
| 24% | DEKED | 5 | Faked in the rink |
| 24% | DEKE | 4 | Fake in the rink |