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
- Three Men in a BoatDeep Cut85points
- Three SistersDeep Cut85points
- Three Times LuckyDeep Cut85points
- Three to Get DeadlyDeep Cut85points
- Three Weeks with My BrotherDeep Cut85points
- Three WishesDeep Cut85points
- Thrill!Deep Cut85points
- Thriving on ChaosDeep Cut85points
- ThrottledDeep Cut85points
- Through a Glass DarklyDeep Cut85points
- Through the Looking-GlassDeep Cut85points
- Thud!Deep Cut85points
- Thug KitchenDeep Cut85points
- Thump, Quack, MooDeep Cut85points
- ThunderheadDeep Cut85points
- ThunderstruckDeep Cut85points
- Thursdays at EightDeep Cut85points
- Thurston HouseDeep Cut85points
- Thus Spoke Rohan KishibeDeep Cut85points
- Thy Neighbor's WifeDeep Cut85points
- Tick TockDeep Cut85points
- Tickle Time!Deep Cut85points
- TicktockDeep Cut85points
- TiddlerDeep Cut85points
- TidelandsDeep Cut85points
- Tides of FireDeep Cut85points
- Tiger EyesDeep Cut85points
- Tigerheart's ShadowDeep Cut85points
- Tigers at TwilightDeep Cut85points
- Till We Meet AgainDeep Cut85points
- Tilly TrotterDeep Cut85points
- TimDeep Cut85points
- Time Flies (Cosby)Deep Cut85points
- Time for Outrage!Deep Cut85points
- Time of ContemptDeep Cut85points
- Time of WonderDeep Cut85points
- Time to Get ToughDeep Cut85points
- TimelineDeep Cut85points
- TimequakeDeep Cut85points
- Timmy Failure: Mistakes Were MadeDeep Cut85points
- Timothy Goes to SchoolDeep Cut85points
- Tiny Beautiful ThingsDeep Cut85points
- TitanDeep Cut85points
- Titanic: Lost and FoundDeep Cut85points
- Titch (Pat Hutchins)Deep Cut85points
- TiteufDeep Cut85points
- TitheDeep Cut85points
- Titus GroanDeep Cut85points
- To Be the BestDeep Cut85points
- To Cut a Long Story ShortDeep 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.