Krillion Recorded answers
11,014 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the outside in. Fix the bar first: half a million copies is a mid-list success rather than a household name, so the pool is vastly bigger than the obvious classics. Generate candidates category by category, sweeping through mass-market fiction, numbered series volumes, cookbooks, diet and self-help manuals, picture books, religious paperbacks, celebrity memoirs, film tie-ins, translated comics and serialized fiction. For each one, ask whether it plausibly sold that many copies worldwide rather than in just one territory. Favour titles that arrive with a built-in audience: numbered runs, licensed properties, annual gift volumes, authors with a loyal following. Finish by choosing the least predictable title you can defend, since scoring rewards obscure but verifiable entries over famous ones.
Get a hint
Begin with the broadest territory: bestseller lists spanning several decades, since a title that moved half a million copies usually left a paper trail of reprints, translations and book-club editions.
A little more
Then narrow by format and audience: cheap paperbacks, subscription book-club printings, numbered series volumes and gift editions cross that threshold quietly, far from headlines.
One step further
For the last step, look at works propped up by a franchise, a celebrity name, a film tie-in or a long-running annual series, where a built-in readership can carry sales past the bar on its own.
Reveal answers 11,014
- An Inside JobDeep Cut85points
- An Unwanted GuestDeep Cut85points
- AnabasisDeep Cut85points
- Anansi BoysDeep Cut85points
- Anastasia KrupnikDeep Cut85points
- Anatomy of a MurderDeep Cut85points
- Ancient Secret of the Fountain of YouthDeep Cut85points
- And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and LongerDeep Cut85points
- And Quiet Flows the DonDeep Cut85points
- And Still I RiseDeep Cut85points
- And the Mountains EchoedDeep Cut85points
- And Thereby Hangs a TaleDeep Cut85points
- And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry StreetDeep Cut85points
- AndersonvilleDeep Cut85points
- Andrew's Loose ToothDeep Cut85points
- Andromeda NebulaDeep Cut85points
- AngelDeep Cut85points
- Angel FallsDeep Cut85points
- Angel HeartDeep Cut85points
- Angel of VengeanceDeep Cut85points
- Angel TimeDeep Cut85points
- Angel UnawareDeep Cut85points
- Angela's AirplaneDeep Cut85points
- Angels at the TableDeep Cut85points
- Angels FallDeep Cut85points
- Angels FlightDeep Cut85points
- Angels: God's Secret AgentsDeep Cut85points
- Angle of ReposeDeep Cut85points
- Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal SnoggingDeep Cut85points
- Animal BabiesDeep Cut85points
- Animal DreamsDeep Cut85points
- Animal, Vegetable, MiracleDeep Cut85points
- AnimaliaDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The AbsoluteDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The AlienDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The AndroidDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The AnswerDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The ArrivalDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The AttackDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The BeginningDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The CaptureDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The ChangeDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The ConspiracyDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The DeceptionDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The DecisionDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The DepartureDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The DiscoveryDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The DiversionDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The EncounterDeep Cut85points
- Animorphs: The EscapeDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The spread is lopsided: one recorded entry reached the full hundred, while 8,807 sat at eighty-five and 819 fell to sixty. That pattern tells you scoring rewards rarity rather than fame. The eighty-five band absorbed everything from 'Tis and 1-2-3 Magic to dozens of serial installments, taking in mid-list fiction, media tie-ins, novelty volumes and religious paperbacks that sold steadily without dominating headlines. Almost any verifiable title cleared the floor. The sixty-point group is where the safest, most obvious picks piled up, the titles thousands of players thought of at once, so wide recognition cost points instead of earning them. A single entry at the top proves how far an unusual but provable choice can travel. The lesson for a future round: the rule sets only a minimum, so once a book plausibly passed half a million copies, pick the strangest one you can defend.