| 100% | OOO | 3 | Winner's combination in tic-tac-toe that isn't "XXX" |
| 47% | OOO | 3 | Winning combination in tic-tac-toe, perhaps |
| 41% | OOO | 3 | XXX counterpart, in tic-tac-toe |
| 38% | ELIOT | 5 | T S —, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 38% | ELIOT | 5 | T S ---, winner of the 1948 Nobel Prize in Literature |
| 37% | XES | 3 | Tic-tac-toe symbols that aren't circular |
| 37% | LOWFAT | 6 | Food that isn't high in oils and greases |
| 37% | EAST | 4 | Direction that isn't in any US state names |
| 36% | NACHO | 5 | ___ cheese (cheese that isn't yours, in a classic joke) |
| 36% | ADLIB | 5 | Give a speech that isn't in the script (Hyph.) |
| 36% | ASTRAL | 6 | __ plane is a dimension that isn't in this world |
| 35% | CATSGAME | 8 | Tie in tic-tac-toe |
| 35% | THAMES | 6 | River that "sweats oil and tar" in T. S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" |
| 35% | OOX | 3 | Near miss in tic-tac-toe |
| 35% | XOO | 3 | Losing line in tic-tac-toe |
| 35% | OXX | 3 | Losing line in tic-tac-toe |
| 35% | OOO | 3 | Winning line in tic-tac-toe |
| 35% | TIE | 3 | Usual outcome in tic-tac-toe |
| 34% | OOO | 3 | Tic-tac-toe winner |
| 34% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary but should be |
| 34% | XXO | 3 | Non-winning line in tic-tac-toe |
| 34% | NINE | 4 | Number of squares in tic-tac-toe |
| 34% | SNIGLET | 7 | Term for a word that isn't in the dictionary, but maybe should be |
| 34% | OOO | 3 | Winning tic-tac-toe line, when player X isn't paying attention |
| 33% | OXO | 3 | Losing tic-tac-toe combination |
| 33% | OOO | 3 | Winning tic-tac-toe combination |
| 33% | UMAMI | 5 | Taste that isn't sweet, sour, bitter or salty and whose name means "savoriness" in Japan |
| 32% | LOSER | 5 | X-O-X line in tic-tac-toe, e.g. |
| 32% | OOO | 3 | Winner at tic-tac-toe |
| 32% | OXO | 3 | Household brand that's a tic-tac-toe line |