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
- SoundingsDeep Cut85points
- SourceryDeep Cut85points
- South by Java HeadDeep Cut85points
- South of BroadDeep Cut85points
- South of the Border, West of the SunDeep Cut85points
- Southern CrossDeep Cut85points
- Southern LightsDeep Cut85points
- SpaceDeep Cut85points
- Space BrothersDeep Cut85points
- Space CadetDeep Cut85points
- Space CaseDeep Cut85points
- SpaceboyDeep Cut85points
- SparkDeep Cut85points
- Spark JoyDeep Cut85points
- Sparkling CyanideDeep Cut85points
- Sparring PartnersDeep Cut85points
- Spartan GoldDeep Cut85points
- Speaker for the DeadDeep Cut85points
- Speaking in BonesDeep Cut85points
- Special DeliveryDeep Cut85points
- SpecialsDeep Cut85points
- Specky MageeDeep Cut85points
- SpellbinderDeep Cut85points
- SphereDeep Cut85points
- Spice and WolfDeep Cut85points
- Spider BonesDeep Cut85points
- SpinDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Animals: Against the TideDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Animals: Blood TiesDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Animals: Fire and IceDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Animals: HuntedDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Animals: Rise and FallDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Animals: The EvertreeDeep Cut85points
- Spirit Animals: Wild BornDeep Cut85points
- Spirit BoundDeep Cut85points
- Spiritual LeadershipDeep Cut85points
- Spirou and FantasioDeep Cut85points
- Split SecondDeep Cut85points
- Spoken from the HeartDeep Cut85points
- Spontaneous HealingDeep Cut85points
- SpookDeep Cut85points
- Sports in AmericaDeep Cut85points
- SPQRDeep Cut85points
- Spring CollectionDeep Cut85points
- Spring FireDeep Cut85points
- Spring SnowDeep Cut85points
- Spring's Gentle PromiseDeep Cut85points
- Spur der SteineDeep Cut85points
- Sputnik SweetheartDeep Cut85points
- Spy CampDeep 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.