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
- Pete the Cat: Twinkle, Twinkle, Little StarDeep Cut85points
- Pete the Cat: Valentine's Day Is CoolDeep Cut85points
- Pete the Cat's Train TripDeep Cut85points
- Peter and the StarcatchersDeep Cut85points
- Peter's ChairDeep Cut85points
- Peyton PlaceDeep Cut85points
- PhantasmaDeep Cut85points
- PhantomDeep Cut85points
- Phantom of the AuditoriumDeep Cut85points
- Phantom PreyDeep Cut85points
- PhantomsDeep Cut85points
- PharaohDeep Cut85points
- Phenomenal WomanDeep Cut85points
- Philadelphia ChickensDeep Cut85points
- Physicians' Desk ReferenceDeep Cut85points
- Physics: Principles with ApplicationsDeep Cut85points
- Piano Lessons Can Be MurderDeep Cut85points
- Picardía mexicanaDeep Cut85points
- Picnic at Hanging RockDeep Cut85points
- Picture PerfectDeep Cut85points
- Pieces of HerDeep Cut85points
- Piercing the DarknessDeep Cut85points
- PierreDeep Cut85points
- Pig TalesDeep Cut85points
- Pig the PugDeep Cut85points
- Pigeon PostDeep Cut85points
- PiggiesDeep Cut85points
- PigsDeep Cut85points
- Pigs in HeavenDeep Cut85points
- Pigs Make Me Sneeze!Deep Cut85points
- Pinball, 1973Deep Cut85points
- Pinch of NomDeep Cut85points
- Pinheads and PatriotsDeep Cut85points
- Pinkalicious and the Pink DrinkDeep Cut85points
- Pinkalicious: Pink Around the RinkDeep Cut85points
- Pinkalicious: Pinkie PromiseDeep Cut85points
- Pinkalicious: School Rules!Deep Cut85points
- Pippi Goes on BoardDeep Cut85points
- Pippi in the South SeasDeep Cut85points
- PiranhaDeep Cut85points
- PirateDeep Cut85points
- Pirate LatitudesDeep Cut85points
- PirateologyDeep Cut85points
- Pirates Past NoonDeep Cut85points
- Plague ShipDeep Cut85points
- Plain JaneDeep Cut85points
- Plain SpeakingDeep Cut85points
- Plain TruthDeep Cut85points
- PlainsongDeep Cut85points
- Plan of AttackDeep 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.