| 100% | PAWN | 4 | What "P" means to a chess player |
| 72% | UPBOW | 5 | What "V" means to a string player |
| 61% | PAWNBROKER | 10 | Insurance dealer to a chess player? |
| 56% | ICE | 3 | What "rocks" means to a bartender |
| 56% | CLOT | 4 | What "thrombus" means to a doctor |
| 51% | SETS | 4 | What chess players bring to tournaments in bags |
| 50% | ICONCEDE | 8 | What laying a king on its side in chess means |
| 50% | IPASS | 5 | What a player may mean by knocking on the table |
| 50% | ROSIN | 5 | What a violin player applies to a bow |
| 49% | PLOTHOOK | 8 | What a GM uses to get players involved in a story |
| 49% | SOFTLY | 6 | What ''p'' means to pianists |
| 49% | STET | 4 | What "........" means to a typesetter |
| 49% | GRANDMASTER | 11 | Highest title that can be awarded to a player by world chess organisation FIDE |
| 48% | PUCK | 4 | What a hockey player tries to shoot into the goal |
| 47% | CHECK | 5 | What an upward raised finger means to a waiter |
| 47% | OMEN | 4 | What a black cat may mean to a superstitious one |
| 47% | ERA | 3 | Before the Common ___ (what "BCE" means to a historian) |
| 45% | YOURMOVE | 8 | Reminder to a chess opponent |
| 45% | SIGN | 4 | What a coach might flash to a player |
| 45% | TEMPTER | 7 | What a dessert tray is meant to be |
| 44% | FATED | 5 | What's meant to be? |
| 43% | WALK | 4 | What a white-silhouetted man means to pedestrians |
| 43% | LOGIC | 5 | Means to solving a sudoku puzzle |
| 43% | CHECK | 5 | Announcement from a chess player or a poker player |
| 43% | EVITE | 5 | What you might R.S.V.P. to via a computer |
| 43% | EVITE | 5 | What you might R.S.V.P. to via a laptop |
| 42% | ITCH | 4 | What pruritus means, to laypeople |
| 42% | HAND | 4 | Cards dealt to a player |
| 42% | PRINT | 5 | What Command-P means on a Mac |
| 42% | DRIVE | 5 | What D means on a gearshift |