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
- Anpanman no Inai Inai BaaDeep Cut85points
- Anpanman no Santa ClausDeep Cut85points
- Anpanman o Sagase! Mini 1Deep Cut85points
- Anpanman to Hajimeyō!Deep Cut85points
- Answered PrayersDeep Cut85points
- Anthony AdverseDeep Cut85points
- Anti-OedipusDeep Cut85points
- AnticipationsDeep Cut85points
- AntifragileDeep Cut85points
- AntikillerDeep Cut85points
- Antiracist BabyDeep Cut85points
- Antony and CleopatraDeep Cut85points
- Anxious for NothingDeep Cut85points
- Anxious PeopleDeep Cut85points
- Any Dream Will DoDeep Cut85points
- Any Human HeartDeep Cut85points
- Any Way the Wind BlowsDeep Cut85points
- Anybody Out There?Deep Cut85points
- Anything for BillyDeep Cut85points
- Anything Is PossibleDeep Cut85points
- AoashiDeep Cut85points
- Apache CanyonDeep Cut85points
- Ape HouseDeep Cut85points
- ApollyonDeep Cut85points
- ApologyDeep Cut85points
- AppetitesDeep Cut85points
- Apples Never FallDeep Cut85points
- Appley Dapply's Nursery RhymesDeep Cut85points
- Appointment in SamarraDeep Cut85points
- Appointment with DeathDeep Cut85points
- Apprentice in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Approval AddictionDeep Cut85points
- Apt. 3Deep Cut85points
- AqualiciousDeep Cut85points
- Arch of TriumphDeep Cut85points
- Archangel (Robert Harris)Deep Cut85points
- ArchenemiesDeep Cut85points
- ArchEnemyDeep Cut85points
- Archer's VoiceDeep Cut85points
- Architects' DataDeep Cut85points
- Arctic DriftDeep Cut85points
- Are You a Cow?Deep Cut85points
- Are You Afraid of the Dark?Deep Cut85points
- Are You Ready to Play Outside?Deep Cut85points
- Are You Terrified Yet?Deep Cut85points
- Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, ChelseaDeep Cut85points
- Area 7Deep Cut85points
- Arguing with IdiotsDeep Cut85points
- Ark AngelDeep Cut85points
- Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious EarthDeep 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.