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
- Twenty WishesDeep Cut85points
- TwiceDeep Cut85points
- Twice-Told TalesDeep Cut85points
- Twilight EyesDeep Cut85points
- Twilight's ChildDeep Cut85points
- TwistedDeep Cut85points
- Twisted (Laurie Halse Anderson)Deep Cut85points
- Twisted GamesDeep Cut85points
- Twisted HateDeep Cut85points
- Twisted LiesDeep Cut85points
- Twisted LoveDeep Cut85points
- Twisted Twenty-SixDeep Cut85points
- Twister on TuesdayDeep Cut85points
- Two Bad AntsDeep Cut85points
- Two by TwoDeep Cut85points
- Two for the DoughDeep Cut85points
- Two from GalileeDeep Cut85points
- Two GravesDeep Cut85points
- Two Kinds of TruthDeep Cut85points
- Two Little Girls in BlueDeep Cut85points
- Two Little TrainsDeep Cut85points
- Two NightsDeep Cut85points
- Two Twisted CrownsDeep Cut85points
- Two Years' VacationDeep Cut85points
- TypeeDeep Cut85points
- Typhoon FuryDeep Cut85points
- Tyrannosaur CanyonDeep Cut85points
- Tyrannosaurus DripDeep Cut85points
- U Is for UndertowDeep Cut85points
- UbikDeep Cut85points
- Uganda Be Kidding MeDeep Cut85points
- UgliesDeep Cut85points
- Uh-Oh (Fulghum)Deep Cut85points
- Unaccustomed EarthDeep Cut85points
- UnbelievableDeep Cut85points
- Uncle StyopaDeep Cut85points
- Uncle TungstenDeep Cut85points
- UncommonDeep Cut85points
- Undaunted CourageDeep Cut85points
- Under Cover (Carlson)Deep Cut85points
- Under CurrentsDeep Cut85points
- Under FireDeep Cut85points
- Under GeminiDeep Cut85points
- Under the Banner of HeavenDeep Cut85points
- Under the Greenwood TreeDeep Cut85points
- Under the RadarDeep Cut85points
- Under the VolcanoDeep Cut85points
- UndercoverDeep Cut85points
- UnderworldDeep Cut85points
- UndoneDeep 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.