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
- Socrates in LoveDeep Cut85points
- Soft as a KittenDeep Cut85points
- SolarisDeep Cut85points
- SoldDeep Cut85points
- Soldier's HeartDeep Cut85points
- Sole SurvivorDeep Cut85points
- SolitaryDeep Cut85points
- SolitoDeep Cut85points
- SoloDeep Cut85points
- Solve Your Child's Sleep ProblemsDeep Cut85points
- Some Can WhistleDeep Cut85points
- Somehow, CrystalDeep Cut85points
- Someone Else's ShoesDeep Cut85points
- Someone KnowsDeep Cut85points
- Someone Like YouDeep Cut85points
- Someone Like You (Sarah Dessen)Deep Cut85points
- Someone We KnowDeep Cut85points
- Something GoodDeep Cut85points
- Something HappenedDeep Cut85points
- Something in the WaterDeep Cut85points
- Something of ValueDeep Cut85points
- Something Under the Bed Is DroolingDeep Cut85points
- Something UpstairsDeep Cut85points
- Sometime Never: A Fable for SupermenDeep Cut85points
- Sometimes I LieDeep Cut85points
- Son of Mad LibsDeep Cut85points
- Son of RosemaryDeep Cut85points
- Son of SlappyDeep Cut85points
- Son of the MobDeep Cut85points
- Song of SolomonDeep Cut85points
- Song of SusannahDeep Cut85points
- Songs in Ordinary TimeDeep Cut85points
- Songs of the Humpback WhaleDeep Cut85points
- Sons and LoversDeep Cut85points
- Sons of DestinyDeep Cut85points
- Sons of FortuneDeep Cut85points
- SooleyDeep Cut85points
- Sooner or LaterDeep Cut85points
- Sooper Dooper Mad LibsDeep Cut85points
- Sorairo no TaneDeep Cut85points
- Soramame-kun no BeddoDeep Cut85points
- Soramame-kun to Medaka no KoDeep Cut85points
- Soreike Kokology Level 1Deep Cut85points
- Sorrell and SonDeep Cut85points
- Sorrow and BlissDeep Cut85points
- Sōten KōroDeep Cut85points
- Soul EaterDeep Cut85points
- Soul HarvestDeep Cut85points
- Soul MusicDeep Cut85points
- SounderDeep 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.