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
- Planet of the ApesDeep Cut85points
- Planet of the Lawn GnomesDeep Cut85points
- Play DeadDeep Cut85points
- Play DirtyDeep Cut85points
- Play It As It LaysDeep Cut85points
- Playback (Raymond Chandler)Deep Cut85points
- Player PianoDeep Cut85points
- Playing for PizzaDeep Cut85points
- Playing the OddsDeep Cut85points
- Playing with Fire (Sweet Valley High)Deep Cut85points
- Playing with Fire (Tess Gerritsen)Deep Cut85points
- Pleading GuiltyDeep Cut85points
- Please Do Not Feed the WeirdoDeep Cut85points
- Please Don't Eat the DaisiesDeep Cut85points
- Please Look After MomDeep Cut85points
- Please Save My EarthDeep Cut85points
- Please Try to Remember the First of Octember!Deep Cut85points
- Plum IslandDeep Cut85points
- Plum Lovin'Deep Cut85points
- Plum LuckyDeep Cut85points
- Plum SpookyDeep Cut85points
- Plunder and DeceitDeep Cut85points
- Plutarch's LivesDeep Cut85points
- PlutoDeep Cut85points
- PoachedDeep Cut85points
- Poems and Prayers for the Very YoungDeep Cut85points
- Point BlancDeep Cut85points
- Point of ContactDeep Cut85points
- Point of OriginDeep Cut85points
- Point of RetreatDeep Cut85points
- Pokémon AdventuresDeep Cut85points
- PolandDeep Cut85points
- Polar Bear, Polar Bear, What Do You Hear?Deep Cut85points
- Polar Bears Past BedtimeDeep Cut85points
- Polar ShiftDeep Cut85points
- Polar StarDeep Cut85points
- PoliceDeep Cut85points
- Politically Correct Bedtime StoriesDeep Cut85points
- Politics on the EdgeDeep Cut85points
- PollyannaDeep Cut85points
- Pollyanna Grows UpDeep Cut85points
- Ponniyin SelvanDeep Cut85points
- PonyDeep Cut85points
- Poor Little Bitch GirlDeep Cut85points
- Poor Mallory!Deep Cut85points
- Pop Goes the WeaselDeep Cut85points
- PoppyDeep Cut85points
- Poppy and RyeDeep Cut85points
- Port MortuaryDeep Cut85points
- Portnoy's ComplaintDeep 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.