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
- Touching Spirit BearDeep Cut85points
- Touching the VoidDeep Cut85points
- TouchpointsDeep Cut85points
- Tough CustomerDeep Cut85points
- Towards ZeroDeep Cut85points
- Tower of DawnDeep Cut85points
- Towers of MidnightDeep Cut85points
- Town Mouse, Country MouseDeep Cut85points
- ToxicDeep Cut85points
- Toxic BachelorsDeep Cut85points
- Toxin (Robin Cook)Deep Cut85points
- ToysDeep Cut85points
- TraceDeep Cut85points
- TrackerDeep Cut85points
- Trading in the ZoneDeep Cut85points
- Train DreamsDeep Cut85points
- Traitors GateDeep Cut85points
- Transfer of PowerDeep Cut85points
- Traveling LightDeep Cut85points
- TravelsDeep Cut85points
- Travels with CharleyDeep Cut85points
- Travels with My AuntDeep Cut85points
- Treachery in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Treason (Coulter)Deep Cut85points
- Treasure (Clive Cussler)Deep Cut85points
- Treasure HuntersDeep Cut85points
- Treasure Hunters (Jeff Smith)Deep Cut85points
- Treasure Hunters: All-American AdventureDeep Cut85points
- Treasure Hunters: Danger Down the NileDeep Cut85points
- Treasure Hunters: Peril at the Top of the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Treasure Hunters: Quest for the City of GoldDeep Cut85points
- Treasure Hunters: Secret of the Forbidden CityDeep Cut85points
- Treasure Hunters: The Plunder Down UnderDeep Cut85points
- Treasure MountainDeep Cut85points
- Treasure of KhanDeep Cut85points
- TreasuresDeep Cut85points
- Tree House MysteryDeep Cut85points
- Tress of the Emerald SeaDeep Cut85points
- TrevayneDeep Cut85points
- Trials of DeathDeep Cut85points
- TriangleDeep Cut85points
- Triangle (Mac Barnett)Deep Cut85points
- Tribe of MentorsDeep Cut85points
- TribesDeep Cut85points
- Tribulation ForceDeep Cut85points
- TributeDeep Cut85points
- Trickster's ChoiceDeep Cut85points
- Tricky Twenty-TwoDeep Cut85points
- Trigger WarningDeep Cut85points
- TrinityDeep 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.