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
- BabbittDeep Cut85points
- BabelDeep Cut85points
- BabiesDeep Cut85points
- Baby & MeDeep Cut85points
- Baby AnimalsDeep Cut85points
- Baby Bear, Baby Bear, What Do You See?Deep Cut85points
- Baby Bop's Counting BookDeep Cut85points
- Baby Bop's ToysDeep Cut85points
- Baby Farm AnimalsDeep Cut85points
- Baby Steps MillionairesDeep Cut85points
- Baby-sitters on Board!Deep Cut85points
- Baby-sitters' Summer VacationDeep Cut85points
- Baby-sitters' Winter VacationDeep Cut85points
- Baby's ABCDeep Cut85points
- Baby's Animal FriendsDeep Cut85points
- Baby's First WordsDeep Cut85points
- BabyhoodDeep Cut85points
- Back on Blossom StreetDeep Cut85points
- Back RoadsDeep Cut85points
- Back SpinDeep Cut85points
- Back to BeforeDeep Cut85points
- Back When We Were GrownupsDeep Cut85points
- BacklashDeep Cut85points
- Bad Boy: A MemoirDeep Cut85points
- Bad BoysDeep Cut85points
- Bad DadDeep Cut85points
- Bad Day at RiverbendDeep Cut85points
- Bad GirlsDeep Cut85points
- Bad Hare DayDeep Cut85points
- Bad KittyDeep Cut85points
- Bad Luck and TroubleDeep Cut85points
- Badger's Parting GiftsDeep Cut85points
- Baka no KabeDeep Cut85points
- BakemonogatariDeep Cut85points
- Baki the GrapplerDeep Cut85points
- Baking with JuliaDeep Cut85points
- BakumanDeep Cut85points
- Baltimore CatechismDeep Cut85points
- Balto of the Blue DawnDeep Cut85points
- Bamu to Kero no NichiyōbiDeep Cut85points
- Bamu to Kero no OkaimonoDeep Cut85points
- Bamu to Kero no Samui AsaDeep Cut85points
- Bamu to Kero no Sora no TabiDeep Cut85points
- Banana FishDeep Cut85points
- Band of BrothersDeep Cut85points
- Baptism of FireDeep Cut85points
- BarbapapaDeep Cut85points
- Barbarian DaysDeep Cut85points
- Barbarians at the GateDeep Cut85points
- Barchester TowersDeep 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.