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Name a book that has sold at least 500,000 copies worldwide.

October 24, 2026 · Daily Dive #101

Explore 11,014 recorded answers and their points for question 3 on October 24, 2026.

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11,014 recorded names on October 24, 2026, 9,736 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Cast the net wide across publishing: mass-market paperbacks, numbered series entries, cookbooks, diet guides, children's picture books and religious paperbacks all cross this threshold. Submit one published book title whose lifetime sales have genuinely passed half a million copies; author names, series names, screen adaptations and manuscripts still in draft do not qualify.

11,014 recorded answers9,736 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut9,73585 pts
  • Rare1,16060 pts
  • Schooler10730 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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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
  • The Clue in the Jewel BoxDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue in the Old AlbumDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue in the Old StagecoachDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Black KeysDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Broken BladeDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Broken LocketDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Dancing PuppetDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Hissing SerpentDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Leaning ChimneyDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Screeching OwlDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Tapping HeelsDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Velvet MaskDeep Cut85points
  • The Clue of the Whistling BagpipesDeep Cut85points
  • The Cobra (Frederick Forsyth)Deep Cut85points
  • The Coddling of the American MindDeep Cut85points
  • The Code BreakerDeep Cut85points
  • The CodexDeep Cut85points
  • The Coldest Girl in ColdtownDeep Cut85points
  • The CollectorDeep Cut85points
  • The CollectorsDeep Cut85points
  • The Color KittensDeep Cut85points
  • The Color of WaterDeep Cut85points
  • The Colorado KidDeep Cut85points
  • The Colour of MagicDeep Cut85points
  • The Columbus AffairDeep Cut85points
  • The Comfort BookDeep Cut85points
  • The Comfort CrisisDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Book of RunningDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Calvin and HobbesDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Far SideDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Guide to MoneyDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Guide to the BibleDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Illustrated Children's BibleDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Ketogenic Diet for BeginnersDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete PeanutsDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete RobotDeep Cut85points
  • The Complete Scarsdale Medical DietDeep Cut85points
  • The Concept of LawDeep Cut85points
  • The Concrete BlondeDeep Cut85points
  • The ConfessionDeep Cut85points
  • The Confessions of Nat TurnerDeep Cut85points
  • The ConfessorDeep Cut85points
  • The Confident WomanDeep Cut85points
  • The Conquest of BreadDeep Cut85points
  • The Conscience of a ConservativeDeep Cut85points
  • The Constant NymphDeep Cut85points
  • The Copper BeechDeep Cut85points
  • The CorrespondentDeep Cut85points
  • The Cost of DiscipleshipDeep Cut85points
  • The CottageDeep 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.

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