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
- ShakenDeep Cut85points
- Shakespeare: The World as StageDeep Cut85points
- ShalakoDeep Cut85points
- Shalimar the ClownDeep Cut85points
- Shall We Tell the President?Deep Cut85points
- Shaman KingDeep Cut85points
- ShameDeep Cut85points
- ShaneDeep Cut85points
- Shanghai GirlsDeep Cut85points
- Shangri-La FrontierDeep Cut85points
- ShantaramDeep Cut85points
- Share Your SmileDeep Cut85points
- Sharing a ShellDeep Cut85points
- Sharon Osbourne ExtremeDeep Cut85points
- Shatter MeDeep Cut85points
- ShatteredDeep Cut85points
- Shave the WhalesDeep Cut85points
- She Comes FirstDeep Cut85points
- She: A History of AdventureDeep Cut85points
- She's Come UndoneDeep Cut85points
- Sheila Rae, the BraveDeep Cut85points
- ShelterDeep Cut85points
- Shelter in PlaceDeep Cut85points
- ShiftDeep Cut85points
- Shiken ni Deru EitangoDeep Cut85points
- Shimashima GuruguruDeep Cut85points
- Shin Meikai kokugo jitenDeep Cut85points
- Ship of FoolsDeep Cut85points
- ShirleyDeep Cut85points
- Shirley, Goodness and MercyDeep Cut85points
- Shirokuma-chan no HottokekiDeep Cut85points
- ShiverDeep Cut85points
- Shōbō Jidōsha JiputaDeep Cut85points
- Shock for the Secret SevenDeep Cut85points
- Shock WaveDeep Cut85points
- Shōjō kara Mita Katei no Igaku HyakkaDeep Cut85points
- Shonan Junai GumiDeep Cut85points
- Shōnen AshibeDeep Cut85points
- ShooterDeep Cut85points
- Shopaholic & BabyDeep Cut85points
- Shopaholic & SisterDeep Cut85points
- Shopaholic Takes ManhattanDeep Cut85points
- Should I Share My Ice Cream?Deep Cut85points
- ShoutDeep Cut85points
- Shout at the DevilDeep Cut85points
- Show and TellDeep Cut85points
- Show BoatDeep Cut85points
- Shrill: Notes from a Loud WomanDeep Cut85points
- Shuggie BainDeep Cut85points
- Shura no MonDeep 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.