| 100% | BOOK | 4 | Word that follows "Play" to mean Barney's collection of pickup ideas in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 42% | STINSON | 7 | Barney's last name in How I Met Your Mother |
| 40% | LEGENDARY | 9 | Barney's favorite word on How I Met Your Mother |
| 37% | PATRICKHARRIS | 13 | Neil ___, who played Barney Stinson in "How I Met Your Mother": 2 wds |
| 37% | BARNEY | 6 | Neil Patrick Harris in How I Met Your Mother |
| 37% | TEDMOSBY | 8 | The main character in How I Met Your Mother |
| 37% | DIBS | 4 | Word often used by Barney on "How I Met Your Mother" to lay first claim |
| 37% | SAGET | 5 | He voices the narrator in How I Met Your Mother |
| 36% | COBIE | 5 | Smulders of How I Met Your Mother and Avengers: Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. |
| 36% | ALYSONHANNIGAN | 14 | "How I Met Your Mother" actress who played Michelle in "American Pie": 2 wds. |
| 35% | BASS | 4 | Instrument that Tracy played in her band on "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 35% | MOTHER | 6 | How I Met Your __, sitcom that ended in 2014 |
| 34% | TED | 3 | Character played by Josh Radnor in "How I Met Your Mother," ___ Mosby |
| 34% | LIST | 4 | Word that follows "black" to mean a record of banned items |
| 33% | TED | 3 | Mosby in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 33% | BRO | 3 | How Barney referred to any male friend, on "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 33% | DAVID | 5 | ___ Burtka, actor from "How I Met Your Mother" who is married to Neil Patrick Harris (Barney) |
| 33% | ADO | 3 | Word meaning "excitement" that's in the title of a Shakespeare play |
| 32% | LILY | 4 | Marshall's wife in "How I Met Your Mother" (also a flower) |
| 32% | JASONSEGEL | 10 | "How I Met Your Mother" actor who plays Peter on AMC's anthology drama "Dispatches from Elsewhere" (2 wds.) |
| 32% | TED | 3 | The character who tells the story of his life in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 32% | LILYALDRIN | 10 | Marshall Eriksen's wife in "How I Met Your Mother": 2 wds |
| 32% | JOSHRADNOR | 10 | "How I Met Your Mother" actor who costars in "Rise": 2 wds. |
| 32% | BAR | 3 | MacLaren's of "How I Met Your Mother," for one |
| 32% | BARNEY | 6 | ___ Stinson of "How I Met Your Mother," whose proposal to Robin is a page out of his Playbook |
| 31% | PATRICKHARRIS | 13 | Neil, one of the lead actors in "How I Met Your Mother," who directed the episode "Jenkins" in the show's 5th season: 2 wds. |
| 31% | TED | 3 | The "I" in "How I Met Your Mother" |
| 31% | THEMALL | 7 | "Let's Go to ___," Robin Sparkles' hit song in "How I Met Your Mother": 2 wds. |
| 31% | JASONSEGAL | 10 | "How I Met Your Mother" actor who plays Jimmy Laird on "Shrinking" (2 wds.) |
| 31% | TED | 3 | ____ Mosby, protagonist in "How I Met Your Mother" |