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
- TaggerungDeep Cut85points
- Tai-PanDeep Cut85points
- TailSpinDeep Cut85points
- TakedownDeep Cut85points
- Takedown TwentyDeep Cut85points
- TakenDeep Cut85points
- Taken at the FloodDeep Cut85points
- Takopi's Original SinDeep Cut85points
- Tales from a Not-So-Graceful Ice PrincessDeep Cut85points
- Tales from a Not-So-Happy HeartbreakerDeep Cut85points
- Tales from a Not-So-Smart Miss Know-It-AllDeep Cut85points
- Tales from EarthseaDeep Cut85points
- Tales from MoominvalleyDeep Cut85points
- Tales from the Shadowhunter AcademyDeep Cut85points
- Tales of Mystery and ImaginationDeep Cut85points
- Tales of the South PacificDeep Cut85points
- Tales Too Ticklish to TellDeep Cut85points
- Talking StraightDeep Cut85points
- Talking to StrangersDeep Cut85points
- Tallstar's RevengeDeep Cut85points
- Tallulah (Bankhead)Deep Cut85points
- Talons of PowerDeep Cut85points
- TaltosDeep Cut85points
- Taming 7Deep Cut85points
- Taming NatashaDeep Cut85points
- TangerineDeep Cut85points
- TannödDeep Cut85points
- TapestryDeep Cut85points
- Tar BabyDeep Cut85points
- Tara RoadDeep Cut85points
- Target AcquiredDeep Cut85points
- Target: Alex CrossDeep Cut85points
- Tarnished GoldDeep Cut85points
- Tarzan of the ApesDeep Cut85points
- TashiDeep Cut85points
- Taylor Swift: A Little Golden Book BiographyDeep Cut85points
- Taylor Swift: The Eras Tour BookDeep Cut85points
- Teacher ManDeep Cut85points
- Tears of a TigerDeep Cut85points
- Tears of the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Teasing Master Takagi-sanDeep Cut85points
- Teen Love: On RelationshipsDeep Cut85points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (novelization)Deep Cut85points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Pop-Up BookDeep Cut85points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Totally Awesome Activity BookDeep Cut85points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Greetings from the SewerDeep Cut85points
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Storybook Based on the MovieDeep Cut85points
- TehanuDeep Cut85points
- Telegraph AvenueDeep Cut85points
- Tell Me EverythingDeep 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.