| 100% | TEAMS | 5 | Shirts and skins, in a pickup game |
| 68% | SHIRTS | 6 | Skins' opponent in a pickup game |
| 67% | SKINS | 5 | Shirts' opponents in a pickup basketball game |
| 59% | SHIRTS | 6 | Side in a pickup game |
| 57% | SKINS | 5 | One side in a pickup basketball game |
| 57% | SKINS | 5 | Shirtless side in a pickup basketball game |
| 57% | SKINS | 5 | Opponent of "shirts," in a pickup basketball game |
| 55% | SHIRTS | 6 | Side in a pickup basketball game |
| 50% | WARMER | 6 | Encouragement in a game of Hot and Cold |
| 49% | PLAYROOM | 8 | Place in a house for children's toys and games |
| 49% | UMPED | 5 | Called balls and strikes in a baseball game |
| 49% | EVEN | 4 | Neck and neck, in a game |
| 48% | REF | 3 | Person in a striped shirt at a football game, for short |
| 48% | TIC | 3 | First syllable in a game of X's and O's |
| 48% | PLAT | 4 | A rank in video games and short for platinum |
| 47% | UMPED | 5 | Called balls and strikes in a baseball game, for short |
| 47% | SKINS | 5 | Shirts' opponents, in pickup games |
| 46% | CUE | 3 | Stick in a ball-and-stick game |
| 46% | OOO | 3 | Win in a pencil-and-paper game |
| 46% | OTS | 3 | There were six in a 1951 N.B.A. game between Indianapolis and Rochester |
| 46% | PORE | 4 | Skin feature … and a clue to the circled square in this row |
| 46% | RAGEQUIT | 8 | Suddenly and angrily stop playing a game, in modern lingo |
| 45% | KERPLUNK | 8 | Game played with balls and sticks in a tube |
| 45% | IGOTNEXT | 8 | Challenger's announcement at a pickup game |
| 45% | NISSANTITANS | 12 | Pickup trucks from a foreign-owned company made and sold only in North America |
| 44% | SIGHTUNSEEN | 11 | *Exhale in a game of hide-and-seek? |
| 44% | ONEONONE | 8 | Many a pickup game |
| 44% | WALDO | 5 | Guy hiding in a red-and-white striped shirt |
| 44% | WALDO | 5 | Elusive guy in a red-and-white striped shirt |
| 43% | DARTS | 5 | Game in which a “ton-eighty” (a hundred and eighty) is the maximum score per turn |