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
- ArmadaDeep Cut85points
- Armadillo RodeoDeep Cut85points
- Around the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Around the World with Auntie MameDeep Cut85points
- Arrow to the SunDeep Cut85points
- ArrowsmithDeep Cut85points
- ArtemisDeep Cut85points
- Artemis FowlDeep Cut85points
- Artemis Fowl and the Arctic IncidentDeep Cut85points
- Artemis Fowl and the Atlantis ComplexDeep Cut85points
- Artemis Fowl and the Eternity CodeDeep Cut85points
- Artemis Fowl and the Last GuardianDeep Cut85points
- Artemis Fowl and the Opal DeceptionDeep Cut85points
- Artemis Fowl and the Time ParadoxDeep Cut85points
- Artemis Fowl: The Lost ColonyDeep Cut85points
- Arthur BabysitsDeep Cut85points
- Arthur Goes to CampDeep Cut85points
- Arthur Goes to SchoolDeep Cut85points
- Arthur Lost and FoundDeep Cut85points
- Arthur Meets the PresidentDeep Cut85points
- Arthur Writes a StoryDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's April FoolDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's BabyDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's BirthdayDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Chicken PoxDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's ChristmasDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Computer DisasterDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's EyesDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Family VacationDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's First SleepoverDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's HalloweenDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's New PuppyDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's NoseDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Perfect ChristmasDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Pet BusinessDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Reading RaceDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Teacher Moves InDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's Teacher TroubleDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's ThanksgivingDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's ToothDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's TV TroubleDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's UnderwearDeep Cut85points
- Arthur's ValentineDeep Cut85points
- Aru Shah and the End of TimeDeep Cut85points
- As a Man ThinkethDeep Cut85points
- As Brave as YouDeep Cut85points
- As Good as DeadDeep Cut85points
- As I Lay DyingDeep Cut85points
- As Long as the Lemon Trees GrowDeep Cut85points
- As Sure as the DawnDeep 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.