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
- See Here, Private HargroveDeep Cut85points
- See MeDeep Cut85points
- See, I Told You SoDeep Cut85points
- Seeds of YesterdayDeep Cut85points
- Seeing RedDeep Cut85points
- Seeking Allah, Finding JesusDeep Cut85points
- SeinLanguageDeep Cut85points
- Seize the NightDeep Cut85points
- SeizureDeep Cut85points
- Self MattersDeep Cut85points
- Self-Help (Samuel Smiles)Deep Cut85points
- Selp-HelfDeep Cut85points
- Semi-ToughDeep Cut85points
- Sense and SensibilityDeep Cut85points
- Separation of PowerDeep Cut85points
- SeptemberDeep Cut85points
- SepulchreDeep Cut85points
- Serafina and the Black CloakDeep Cut85points
- SeraphinaDeep Cut85points
- SerpentDeep Cut85points
- Servant of the BonesDeep Cut85points
- Seven Ancient WondersDeep Cut85points
- Seven Days in MayDeep Cut85points
- Seven Little PostmenDeep Cut85points
- Seven Seasons of the Man in the MirrorDeep Cut85points
- Seven UpDeep Cut85points
- Seven Years in TibetDeep Cut85points
- SeventeenDeep Cut85points
- SeveranceDeep Cut85points
- Sex (Madonna)Deep Cut85points
- Sexy Commando GaidenDeep Cut85points
- Sh*t My Dad SaysDeep Cut85points
- Shades of GreyDeep Cut85points
- ShadowDeep Cut85points
- Shadow DanceDeep Cut85points
- Shadow KissDeep Cut85points
- Shadow of DoubtDeep Cut85points
- Shadow of PowerDeep Cut85points
- Shadow of the DragonDeep Cut85points
- Shadow of the GiantDeep Cut85points
- Shadow of the HegemonDeep Cut85points
- Shadow of the SharkDeep Cut85points
- Shadow PuppetsDeep Cut85points
- Shadow SpellDeep Cut85points
- Shadow TyrantsDeep Cut85points
- ShadowfiresDeep Cut85points
- ShadowlandDeep Cut85points
- ShadowmancerDeep Cut85points
- Shadows in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Shadows of SelfDeep 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.