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
- Portrait in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Portrait in SepiaDeep Cut85points
- Portrait of a Killer: Jack the Ripper—Case ClosedDeep Cut85points
- Portrait of a SpyDeep Cut85points
- Portrait of an Unknown WomanDeep Cut85points
- Poseidon's ArrowDeep Cut85points
- Possessing the Secret of JoyDeep Cut85points
- PossessionDeep Cut85points
- Possum MagicDeep Cut85points
- Postern of FateDeep Cut85points
- PostmortemDeep Cut85points
- Power and EmpireDeep Cut85points
- Power of a WomanDeep Cut85points
- Power of the SwordDeep Cut85points
- Power Play (Sweet Valley High)Deep Cut85points
- Power ThoughtsDeep Cut85points
- PowerlessDeep Cut85points
- Practicing the Power of NowDeep Cut85points
- Practicing the WayDeep Cut85points
- Prayer That Changes EverythingDeep Cut85points
- Prayers & Promises for WomenDeep Cut85points
- Prayers for RainDeep Cut85points
- Prayers That Avail MuchDeep Cut85points
- Praying God's WordDeep Cut85points
- Precious GiftsDeep Cut85points
- PredatorDeep Cut85points
- Predictably IrrationalDeep Cut85points
- Prelude to FoundationDeep Cut85points
- Present Over PerfectDeep Cut85points
- Preserve and ProtectDeep Cut85points
- Pretend You Don't See HerDeep Cut85points
- PrettiesDeep Cut85points
- Pretty Boy FloydDeep Cut85points
- Pretty GirlsDeep Cut85points
- Pretty WomanDeep Cut85points
- PreyDeep Cut85points
- Primary ColorsDeep Cut85points
- Prince LestatDeep Cut85points
- Prince Lestat and the Realms of AtlantisDeep Cut85points
- Prince of FireDeep Cut85points
- Prince of the ElvesDeep Cut85points
- Princess AcademyDeep Cut85points
- Princess DaisyDeep Cut85points
- Princess in LoveDeep Cut85points
- Princess in PinkDeep Cut85points
- Princess in the SpotlightDeep Cut85points
- Princess in TrainingDeep Cut85points
- Princess in WaitingDeep Cut85points
- Princess Labelmaker to the Rescue!Deep Cut85points
- Princess MiaDeep 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.