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
- To Die ForDeep Cut85points
- To Have and Have NotDeep Cut85points
- To Have and to HoldDeep Cut85points
- To Heaven and BackDeep Cut85points
- To Love AgainDeep Cut85points
- To ParadiseDeep Cut85points
- To Sell Is HumanDeep Cut85points
- To the Far Blue MountainsDeep Cut85points
- To the Last ManDeep Cut85points
- To the LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- To the NinesDeep Cut85points
- Tobacco RoadDeep Cut85points
- Toda MafaldaDeep Cut85points
- Today I Feel SillyDeep Cut85points
- Today I Will Fly!Deep Cut85points
- Today Is MondayDeep Cut85points
- Today Tonight TomorrowDeep Cut85points
- TOEIC Kin no FurēzuDeep Cut85points
- TogetherDeep Cut85points
- Tokei no HonDeep Cut85points
- Tokimeki TonightDeep Cut85points
- Tokugawa IeyasuDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo Daigaku MonogatariDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo Ghoul:reDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo RevengersDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo ViceDeep Cut85points
- Tom Gates: Everything's Amazing (Sort Of)Deep Cut85points
- Tom Gates: Excellent Excuses (and Other Good Stuff)Deep Cut85points
- Tom JonesDeep Cut85points
- Tom LakeDeep Cut85points
- Tom's Midnight GardenDeep Cut85points
- TomieDeep Cut85points
- Tonight on the TitanicDeep Cut85points
- Too Blessed to Be StressedDeep Cut85points
- Too LateDeep Cut85points
- Too Much and Never EnoughDeep Cut85points
- Tools of TitansDeep Cut85points
- TootleDeep Cut85points
- Top Secret Twenty-OneDeep Cut85points
- TopazDeep Cut85points
- Toradora!Deep Cut85points
- TorikoDeep Cut85points
- Tortilla FlatDeep Cut85points
- Torto AradoDeep Cut85points
- Total ControlDeep Cut85points
- Total PowerDeep Cut85points
- Totto-Chan: The Little Girl at the WindowDeep Cut85points
- TouchDeep Cut85points
- Touch & GoDeep Cut85points
- Touch Not the CatDeep 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.