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
- Stupid White MenDeep Cut85points
- SubterraneanDeep Cut85points
- Subway ArtDeep Cut85points
- Success Through a Positive Mental AttitudeDeep Cut85points
- Such a Fun AgeDeep Cut85points
- Sugar BluesDeep Cut85points
- Sugar Busters!Deep Cut85points
- Suho's White HorseDeep Cut85points
- Sukeban DekaDeep Cut85points
- SulaDeep Cut85points
- Summer IslandDeep Cut85points
- Summer of '69Deep Cut85points
- Summer of My German SoldierDeep Cut85points
- Summer of the Sea SerpentDeep Cut85points
- Summer on Blossom StreetDeep Cut85points
- Summer SistersDeep Cut85points
- Summer's EndDeep Cut85points
- SummerlandDeep Cut85points
- Sundays at Tiffany'sDeep Cut85points
- SunnyDeep Cut85points
- Sunrise Over FallujahDeep Cut85points
- Sunset EmbraceDeep Cut85points
- Sunset in St. TropezDeep Cut85points
- Sunset of the SabertoothDeep Cut85points
- SunshineDeep Cut85points
- Super BrainDeep Cut85points
- Super Diaper Baby 2: The Invasion of the Potty SnatchersDeep Cut85points
- Super Food Family ClassicsDeep Cut85points
- Super Songs with Silly SoundsDeep Cut85points
- SupercommunicatorsDeep Cut85points
- SuperFreakonomicsDeep Cut85points
- SupergiftedDeep Cut85points
- Superior SaturdayDeep Cut85points
- SupermarketDeep Cut85points
- SupernovaDeep Cut85points
- SuperwormDeep Cut85points
- Support and DefendDeep Cut85points
- SurfacingDeep Cut85points
- Surprise IslandDeep Cut85points
- Surrounded by NarcissistsDeep Cut85points
- Surrounded by PsychopathsDeep Cut85points
- Survive the NightDeep Cut85points
- Surviving at the TopDeep Cut85points
- Survivor in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Susannah's GardenDeep Cut85points
- SuspectDeep Cut85points
- SuspectsDeep Cut85points
- SuttreeDeep Cut85points
- Suzanna's SurrenderDeep Cut85points
- Suzanne's Diary for NicholasDeep 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.