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
- Scorpia RisingDeep Cut85points
- ScorpionsDeep Cut85points
- Scott Pilgrim & the Infinite SadnessDeep Cut85points
- Scott Pilgrim Gets It TogetherDeep Cut85points
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the UniverseDeep Cut85points
- Scott Pilgrim vs. the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Scott Pilgrim's Finest HourDeep Cut85points
- Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little LifeDeep Cut85points
- Scouting for BoysDeep Cut85points
- Scrambled Eggs Super!Deep Cut85points
- Scream SchoolDeep Cut85points
- ScruplesDeep Cut85points
- Scruples TwoDeep Cut85points
- Scuffy the TugboatDeep Cut85points
- Sea of DeathDeep Cut85points
- Sea of GreedDeep Cut85points
- Sea PrayerDeep Cut85points
- Sea SweptDeep Cut85points
- Seacrow IslandDeep Cut85points
- Seamless: Understanding the Bible as One Complete StoryDeep Cut85points
- Searching for CalebDeep Cut85points
- Season of Migration to the NorthDeep Cut85points
- Season of MistsDeep Cut85points
- Season of PassionDeep Cut85points
- Season of the SandstormsDeep Cut85points
- SeawitchDeep Cut85points
- Second ActDeep Cut85points
- Second Form at Malory TowersDeep Cut85points
- Second FoundationDeep Cut85points
- Second GenerationDeep Cut85points
- Second GlanceDeep Cut85points
- Second HoneymoonDeep Cut85points
- SecrecyDeep Cut85points
- Secret CeremoniesDeep Cut85points
- Secret Garden: An Inky Treasure Hunt and Coloring BookDeep Cut85points
- Secret Pizza PartyDeep Cut85points
- Secret Seven AdventureDeep Cut85points
- Secret Seven FireworksDeep Cut85points
- Secret Seven MysteryDeep Cut85points
- Secret Seven on the TrailDeep Cut85points
- Secret Seven Win ThroughDeep Cut85points
- Secret StarDeep Cut85points
- SecretsDeep Cut85points
- Secrets (Danielle Steel)Deep Cut85points
- Secrets (Jacqueline Wilson)Deep Cut85points
- Secrets Can KillDeep Cut85points
- Secrets in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Secrets of the MorningDeep Cut85points
- Security Is a Thumb and a BlanketDeep Cut85points
- Seduction in DeathDeep 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.