| 100% | NORUN | 5 | Like a three-pitch inning |
| 65% | INANE | 5 | Like a Three Stooges routine |
| 65% | ECCENTRIC | 9 | Like a three-dollar bill |
| 65% | LONG | 4 | Like a three-hour movie |
| 65% | FAKE | 4 | Like a three-dollar bill |
| 65% | BOOZY | 5 | Like a three-martini lunch |
| 65% | BOGUS | 5 | Like a three-dollar bill |
| 65% | EXTRA | 5 | Like a 10th inning, a 10th month of pregnancy, or a 10th hole on a pitch-and-putt course |
| 64% | SLY | 3 | Like a three-card monte player |
| 64% | EPIC | 4 | Like a three-hour movie, perhaps |
| 62% | SPHERICAL | 9 | Shaped like a three-dimensional circle |
| 62% | ZANY | 4 | Madcap, like a Three Stooges routine |
| 62% | BOGUS | 5 | Phony, like a three-dollar bill |
| 62% | OVERARM | 7 | Like a baseball pitch |
| 61% | SPHERICAL | 9 | Perfectly round, like a three-dimensional circle |
| 60% | ERADEFINING | 11 | Like a catastrophic pitching performance? |
| 60% | DRY | 3 | Like a three-hour keynote speech about tax codes, probably |
| 60% | RUNLESS | 7 | Like a 1-2-3 inning |
| 60% | LOW | 3 | Like a pitch below the knees |
| 59% | FINALLYFOUR | 11 | Like a three-year-old after a tough year, to Mom? |
| 59% | SIDEARM | 7 | Like some baseball pitches ... and a hint to locating the second part of four three-part puzzle answers |
| 59% | LONG | 4 | Like a movie that lasts three hours |
| 58% | TIED | 4 | Like a game heading into extra innings |
| 58% | TIED | 4 | Like a game headed to extra innings |
| 58% | EXTRA | 5 | Like a 10th or 11th inning, in baseball |
| 58% | LOW | 3 | Like a pitch between the ankles and knees |
| 57% | LONG | 4 | Like a movie with a three-hour running time |
| 54% | NOHIT | 5 | Like a July 2013 baseball game pitched by Homer Bailey: Hyph. |
| 54% | BLIND | 5 | Like three mice in a nursery rhyme |
| 53% | AGED | 4 | Like Scotch, for a minimum of three years |