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
- SlimeDeep Cut85points
- Slouching Towards BethlehemDeep Cut85points
- Slow Heat in HeavenDeep Cut85points
- Slow Waltz in Cedar BendDeep Cut85points
- SlownessDeep Cut85points
- Small CountryDeep Cut85points
- Small GodsDeep Cut85points
- Small Great ThingsDeep Cut85points
- Small IslandDeep Cut85points
- Small MerciesDeep Cut85points
- Small StepsDeep Cut85points
- Smart Couples Finish RichDeep Cut85points
- Smart Money Smart KidsDeep Cut85points
- Smart WomenDeep Cut85points
- Smart Women Finish RichDeep Cut85points
- Smart Women, Foolish ChoicesDeep Cut85points
- Smarter Faster BetterDeep Cut85points
- Smash CutDeep Cut85points
- Smelly SocksDeep Cut85points
- Smile and Say MurderDeep Cut85points
- Smiley's PeopleDeep Cut85points
- Smoke and MirrorsDeep Cut85points
- Smoke ScreenDeep Cut85points
- Smokin' SeventeenDeep Cut85points
- Smurf SoupDeep Cut85points
- Smurf Versus SmurfDeep Cut85points
- SnakeheadDeep Cut85points
- Snakes and EarringsDeep Cut85points
- Snappy Answers to Stupid QuestionsDeep Cut85points
- Snoopy and His Sopwith CamelDeep Cut85points
- Snoopy and the Red BaronDeep Cut85points
- SnowDeep Cut85points
- Snow (P.D. Eastman)Deep Cut85points
- Snow AngelsDeep Cut85points
- Snow CountryDeep Cut85points
- Snow CrashDeep Cut85points
- Snow Flower and the Secret FanDeep Cut85points
- Snow in AprilDeep Cut85points
- Snowbound MysteryDeep Cut85points
- Snowflake BentleyDeep Cut85points
- SnuffDeep Cut85points
- Snuggle Puppy!Deep Cut85points
- So BigDeep Cut85points
- So Good They Can't Ignore YouDeep Cut85points
- So Long, and Thanks for All the FishDeep Cut85points
- So Long, InsecurityDeep Cut85points
- So You Want to Be President?Deep Cut85points
- Soccer on SundayDeep Cut85points
- Sociology (Giddens)Deep Cut85points
- SocksDeep 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.