| Hint | Name |
| Ted's hook | |
| Cab driver from Bangladesh | |
| Convinced Ted to get a tattoo | |
| Creator of 'The Naked Man' | |
| Really a paralegal, though Barney tricks Ted into thinking she is a hooker | |
| Takes Ted's fiancee away from him | |
| Gets married early in season 1, friend of Ted and Marshall | |
| Aggressive bartender who likes to fight | |
| Security guard who becomes well liked by Marshall and Barney because of his poetic romantic lines | |
| Robin's younger sister | |
| Ted's boss at Goliath National Bank | |
| Ted hires this man to work for him | |
| Girl who teaches Ted to rain dance | |
| Ted's girlfriend for part of the first season | |
| Ted's college girlfriend, hated by Lily and Marshall | |
| Robin asked this 'celebrity' to give her an Old King Clancy | |
| Lily's high school boyfriend, is obsessed with her | |
| Celebrity who appears in 'The Best Burger in New York' | |
| Woman who took Barney's virginity | |
| Marshall tries to make Lily jealous with this woman | |
| Ted's stepfather, who sings a very inappropriate song at their wedding | |
| 'Crazy eyes' girl | |
| Robin's coworker who Ted keeps her away from by doing a rain dance | |
| Leaves Ted at the altar | |
| Crazy girl who has sex with Barney in Marshall and Lily's new apartment and appears several more times | |