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
- Spy HookDeep Cut85points
- Spy SchoolDeep Cut85points
- Spy School at SeaDeep Cut85points
- Spy School British InvasionDeep Cut85points
- Spy School Goes SouthDeep Cut85points
- Spy School Project XDeep Cut85points
- Spy School RevolutionDeep Cut85points
- Spy School Secret ServiceDeep Cut85points
- Spy Ski SchoolDeep Cut85points
- SpymasterDeep Cut85points
- Squadron 303Deep Cut85points
- SquareDeep Cut85points
- SquireDeep Cut85points
- Squirrel Seeks ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Squirrelflight's HopeDeep Cut85points
- SS-GBDeep Cut85points
- Stacey and the Mystery of StoneybrookDeep Cut85points
- Stacey's EmergencyDeep Cut85points
- Stacey's MistakeDeep Cut85points
- Stage Fright on a Summer NightDeep Cut85points
- StalkerDeep Cut85points
- Stallion by StarlightDeep Cut85points
- Stamped from the BeginningDeep Cut85points
- Stamped: Racism, Antiracism, and YouDeep Cut85points
- StandoffDeep Cut85points
- StarDeep Cut85points
- Star of the SeaDeep Cut85points
- Star Wars Episode I: Incredible Cross-SectionsDeep Cut85points
- Star Wars: Revenge of the SithDeep Cut85points
- Starring Sally J. Freedman as HerselfDeep Cut85points
- Starring Tracy BeakerDeep Cut85points
- Starry MessengerDeep Cut85points
- Starry NightDeep Cut85points
- Stars of FortuneDeep Cut85points
- Starship TroopersDeep Cut85points
- StarsightDeep Cut85points
- Start with WhyDeep Cut85points
- Starting Your Day RightDeep Cut85points
- StasilandDeep Cut85points
- State of DenialDeep Cut85points
- State of FearDeep Cut85points
- State of the UnionDeep Cut85points
- State of WonderDeep Cut85points
- Stay CloseDeep Cut85points
- Stay Out of the BasementDeep Cut85points
- Stay TrueDeep Cut85points
- SteelheartDeep Cut85points
- Stella by StarlightDeep Cut85points
- Stella MarisDeep Cut85points
- Step on a CrackDeep 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.