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
- Run Baby RunDeep Cut85points
- Run for Your LifeDeep Cut85points
- Run, Rose, RunDeep Cut85points
- Runaway RalphDeep Cut85points
- Running WildDeep Cut85points
- Runny BabbitDeep Cut85points
- RuntDeep Cut85points
- Runway Zero-EightDeep Cut85points
- Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot and Other ObservationsDeep Cut85points
- Rush Revere and the Brave PilgrimsDeep Cut85points
- Rushing WatersDeep Cut85points
- Russian RouletteDeep Cut85points
- RuthlessDeep Cut85points
- Ruthless VowsDeep Cut85points
- Ryoma ga YukuDeep Cut85points
- S Is for SilenceDeep Cut85points
- SabrielDeep Cut85points
- SackettDeep Cut85points
- Sackett's LandDeep Cut85points
- SacramentDeep Cut85points
- SacredDeep Cut85points
- Sacred MarriageDeep Cut85points
- Sacred SinsDeep Cut85points
- Sacred StoneDeep Cut85points
- Sad CypressDeep Cut85points
- Safe HarbourDeep Cut85points
- Safe in the Shepherd's ArmsDeep Cut85points
- Saffron the Yellow FairyDeep Cut85points
- Saga, Volume OneDeep Cut85points
- SaharaDeep Cut85points
- Sahih al-BukhariDeep Cut85points
- Sahih MuslimDeep Cut85points
- SailDeep Cut85points
- Saint AnythingDeep Cut85points
- Saint MaybeDeep Cut85points
- Saint OddDeep Cut85points
- Saint SeiyaDeep Cut85points
- Saint Young MenDeep Cut85points
- SaiyukiDeep Cut85points
- Sakamoto DaysDeep Cut85points
- Sakigake!! OtokojukuDeep Cut85points
- SalamandastronDeep Cut85points
- Salary Man KintaroDeep Cut85points
- Salem FallsDeep Cut85points
- Salt on Our SkinDeep Cut85points
- Salt to the SeaDeep Cut85points
- Salvage the BonesDeep Cut85points
- Salvation in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Sam and Dave Dig a HoleDeep Cut85points
- Sam and the FireflyDeep 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.