| 100% | BLOWON | 6 | Try to cool, perhaps |
| 70% | CHASES | 6 | Tries to tag, perhaps |
| 70% | SHOOK | 5 | Tried to awaken, perhaps |
| 70% | REDOES | 6 | Tries to improve, perhaps |
| 67% | SKIPTOWN | 8 | Try to avoid arrest, perhaps |
| 67% | BAIL | 4 | Try to stay afloat, perhaps |
| 67% | COUNTSHEEP | 10 | Try to fall asleep, perhaps |
| 67% | DIET | 4 | Try to lighten up, perhaps? |
| 67% | LEANINGIN | 9 | Trying to catch better, perhaps |
| 66% | COPAPLEA | 8 | Try to get off easier, perhaps |
| 66% | VEERS | 5 | Tries to avoid a bump, perhaps |
| 66% | SLID | 4 | Tried to steal a base, perhaps |
| 66% | SLID | 4 | Tried to reach second base, perhaps |
| 66% | SLID | 4 | Tried to steal second base, perhaps |
| 66% | SLID | 4 | Tried to steal third base, perhaps |
| 66% | GOESBLONDE | 10 | Tries to have more fun, perhaps? |
| 66% | BLEW | 4 | Tried to extinguish a flame, perhaps |
| 66% | ONTIPTOE | 8 | Trying to move in silence, perhaps |
| 66% | ATBAT | 5 | Trying to avoid a strike, perhaps |
| 65% | DAB | 3 | Try to get a stain out, perhaps |
| 65% | RECODE | 6 | Try to get rid of bugs, perhaps |
| 63% | WRESTLE | 7 | Try to put in a sleeper hold, perhaps |
| 63% | SMEAR | 5 | Try to take down before Election Day, perhaps |
| 63% | RAN | 3 | Tried to reach the finishing ribbon first, perhaps |
| 61% | OFFTHEAIRCONDITIONER | 20 | Trying to keep cool in a more eco-friendly way? |
| 59% | DAB | 3 | Dance move often performed by politicians trying to seem cool |
| 58% | DOGOODER | 8 | One who tries to help, perhaps naively: Hyph. |
| 57% | PADINFLUENCE | 12 | Willingness to try riskier skateboarding tricks, perhaps? |
| 53% | PULL | 4 | Word ignored while trying unsuccessfully to push open a door, perhaps |
| 49% | URGE | 4 | Try to sell |