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
- Sam Walton: Made in AmericaDeep Cut85points
- Sam's Letters to JenniferDeep Cut85points
- Samantha Learns a LessonDeep Cut85points
- Samantha Saves the DayDeep Cut85points
- Samantha's SurpriseDeep Cut85points
- Same Kind of Different As MeDeep Cut85points
- San AndreasDeep Cut85points
- SanctuaryDeep Cut85points
- Sandry's BookDeep Cut85points
- SandstormDeep Cut85points
- SangokushiDeep Cut85points
- Santa EvitaDeep Cut85points
- Santa Fe (Rie Miyazawa)Deep Cut85points
- Santa MouseDeep Cut85points
- SantoriniDeep Cut85points
- Sapiens: A Graphic HistoryDeep Cut85points
- Sara's SongDeep Cut85points
- Sarah BishopDeep Cut85points
- Saratoga TrunkDeep Cut85points
- SarekDeep Cut85points
- SAS Survival HandbookDeep Cut85points
- Save MeDeep Cut85points
- Save Me a SeatDeep Cut85points
- Save with JamieDeep Cut85points
- Saving 6Deep Cut85points
- Saving FaithDeep Cut85points
- Saving Fish from DrowningDeep Cut85points
- Saving MaxDeep Cut85points
- Savor the MomentDeep Cut85points
- SavvyDeep Cut85points
- Say Cheese and Die Screaming!Deep Cut85points
- Say Cheese and Die—Again!Deep Cut85points
- Say GoodbyeDeep Cut85points
- Say You're One of ThemDeep Cut85points
- SayonaraDeep Cut85points
- Sazae-sanDeep Cut85points
- ScarletDeep Cut85points
- Scarlet FeatherDeep Cut85points
- ScarlettDeep Cut85points
- ScarpettaDeep Cut85points
- Scary Stories 3: More Tales to Chill Your BonesDeep Cut85points
- Scholastic Children's DictionaryDeep Cut85points
- SchooledDeep Cut85points
- Schoolhouse MysteryDeep Cut85points
- SchoßgebeteDeep Cut85points
- Schott's Original MiscellanyDeep Cut85points
- Science and Health with Key to the ScripturesDeep Cut85points
- Scientific Progress Goes "Boink"Deep Cut85points
- Scion of IkshvakuDeep Cut85points
- ScorpiaDeep 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.