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
- Tell Me LiesDeep Cut85points
- Tell Me Your DreamsDeep Cut85points
- Tell No ManDeep Cut85points
- Tell No OneDeep Cut85points
- Tell TaleDeep Cut85points
- Telling LiesDeep Cut85points
- Temperatures RisingDeep Cut85points
- Tempt Me at TwilightDeep Cut85points
- Temptation and SurrenderDeep Cut85points
- TemptedDeep Cut85points
- Tempting FateDeep Cut85points
- Ten Apples Up On Top!Deep Cut85points
- Ten Big OnesDeep Cut85points
- Ten in the BedDeep Cut85points
- Ten Secrets for the Man in the MirrorDeep Cut85points
- Ten Things I Love About YouDeep Cut85points
- Ten Things I Wish I'd KnownDeep Cut85points
- Ten Things I Wish I'd Known Before I Went Out into the Real WorldDeep Cut85points
- Tender is the NightDeep Cut85points
- Term LimitsDeep Cut85points
- TerminalDeep Cut85points
- Terminal FreezeDeep Cut85points
- Terra FormarsDeep Cut85points
- TerrierDeep Cut85points
- Tess of the d'UrbervillesDeep Cut85points
- TestimonyDeep Cut85points
- Testimony of Two MenDeep Cut85points
- TexDeep Cut85points
- Texas (James Michener)Deep Cut85points
- Texas FuryDeep Cut85points
- Texas HeatDeep Cut85points
- Texas RangerDeep Cut85points
- Texas RichDeep Cut85points
- Texas SunriseDeep Cut85points
- Texas! ChaseDeep Cut85points
- Texas! LuckyDeep Cut85points
- Texas! SageDeep Cut85points
- TexasvilleDeep Cut85points
- Thank You for ArguingDeep Cut85points
- Thankless in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Thanksgiving on ThursdayDeep Cut85points
- That Is Not a Good Idea!Deep Cut85points
- That Time I Got Reincarnated as a SlimeDeep Cut85points
- That Was Then, This Is NowDeep Cut85points
- The 100-Story HouseDeep Cut85points
- The 104-Storey TreehouseDeep Cut85points
- The 117-Storey TreehouseDeep Cut85points
- The 120 Days of SodomDeep Cut85points
- The 13-Storey TreehouseDeep Cut85points
- The 130-Storey TreehouseDeep 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.