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
- Voices in SummerDeep Cut85points
- Void MoonDeep Cut85points
- Wacky WednesdayDeep Cut85points
- Waiting for AnyaDeep Cut85points
- Waiting for NickDeep Cut85points
- Waiting for the BarbariansDeep Cut85points
- Waiting Is Not Easy!Deep Cut85points
- Waiting to ExhaleDeep Cut85points
- Wake Up and Live!Deep Cut85points
- Walden TwoDeep Cut85points
- Walk in My Combat BootsDeep Cut85points
- Walk the WireDeep Cut85points
- Walk Two MoonsDeep Cut85points
- Walking on WaterDeep Cut85points
- Walt Disney's StorylandDeep Cut85points
- Walter the BakerDeep Cut85points
- Wanderer of the WastelandDeep Cut85points
- WanderlustDeep Cut85points
- War (Woodward)Deep Cut85points
- War and RemembranceDeep Cut85points
- War CryDeep Cut85points
- War StoriesDeep Cut85points
- War StormDeep Cut85points
- WarbreakerDeep Cut85points
- WarcrossDeep Cut85points
- Ward DDeep Cut85points
- WarlockDeep Cut85points
- Warrior of the LightDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: A Dangerous PathDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: A Forest DividedDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: A Light in the MistDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Dark RiverDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Darkest NightDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Darkness WithinDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: DawnDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: EclipseDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Fading EchoesDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Fire and IceDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Forest of SecretsDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Long ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Lost StarsDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: MidnightDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: MoonriseDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Night WhispersDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: OutcastDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Path of StarsDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Rising StormDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: River of FireDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Shattered SkyDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Sign of the MoonDeep 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.