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
- Palace WalkDeep Cut85points
- PalazzoDeep Cut85points
- Pale Blue DotDeep Cut85points
- Pale FireDeep Cut85points
- PalominoDeep Cut85points
- Palomita BlancaDeep Cut85points
- Pan DorobōDeep Cut85points
- Pan TadeuszDeep Cut85points
- Pancakes, Pancakes!Deep Cut85points
- PanchatantraDeep Cut85points
- Panda Bear, Panda Bear, What Do You See?Deep Cut85points
- PandemoniumDeep Cut85points
- PandoraDeep Cut85points
- PanicDeep Cut85points
- Papa, Please Get the Moon for MeDeep Cut85points
- PapillonDeep Cut85points
- Parallel World Love StoryDeep Cut85points
- ParasyteDeep Cut85points
- Parenting with Love & LogicDeep Cut85points
- Parliament of WhoresDeep Cut85points
- PartisansDeep Cut85points
- Party PrincessDeep Cut85points
- Passages (Sheehy)Deep Cut85points
- Passenger to FrankfurtDeep Cut85points
- PassingDeep Cut85points
- Passion's PromiseDeep Cut85points
- Passions in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Past PerfectDeep Cut85points
- Past TenseDeep Cut85points
- Path of the AssassinDeep Cut85points
- Paths of GloryDeep Cut85points
- PatinaDeep Cut85points
- PatriaDeep Cut85points
- Pattern RecognitionDeep Cut85points
- Paul and VirginiaDeep Cut85points
- PaulaDeep Cut85points
- Pawn of ProphecyDeep Cut85points
- Paws Off, Cheddarface!Deep Cut85points
- PaxDeep Cut85points
- PaybackDeep Cut85points
- Payback in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Peace of MindDeep Cut85points
- Peace with GodDeep Cut85points
- Peach GirlDeep Cut85points
- Peachtree RoadDeep Cut85points
- Peaks and ValleysDeep Cut85points
- Peanuts TreasuryDeep Cut85points
- Pearl in the MistDeep Cut85points
- Pearl of Great PriceDeep Cut85points
- Pears' CyclopaediaDeep 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.