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
- Warriors: StarlightDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: SunriseDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: SunsetDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Apprentice's QuestDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Blazing StarDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Darkest HourDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The First BattleDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Forgotten WarriorDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Fourth ApprenticeDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Last HopeDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Place of No StarsDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Raging StormDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The SightDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Silent ThawDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: The Sun TrailDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Thunder and ShadowDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Thunder RisingDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: TwilightDeep Cut85points
- Warriors: Veil of ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Washington ConfidentialDeep Cut85points
- Washington: A LifeDeep Cut85points
- Watashi no WanpīsuDeep Cut85points
- Watch Me Throw the Ball!Deep Cut85points
- WatchersDeep Cut85points
- Watching Over HerDeep Cut85points
- Watching YouDeep Cut85points
- Water MarginDeep Cut85points
- WaveriderDeep Cut85points
- Way of the Peaceful WarriorDeep Cut85points
- Ways of SeeingDeep Cut85points
- Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of DoomDeep Cut85points
- Wayside School Gets a Little StrangerDeep Cut85points
- Wayside School Is Falling DownDeep Cut85points
- Wayward SonDeep Cut85points
- WeDeep Cut85points
- We (Lindbergh)Deep Cut85points
- We Are in a Book!Deep Cut85points
- We Are OkayDeep Cut85points
- We Are Water ProtectorsDeep Cut85points
- We Found a HatDeep Cut85points
- We Help MommyDeep Cut85points
- We Share Everything!Deep Cut85points
- We Solve MurdersDeep Cut85points
- We the LivingDeep Cut85points
- We Used to Live HereDeep Cut85points
- We Were LiarsDeep Cut85points
- We Were the MulvaneysDeep Cut85points
- We Were ThereDeep Cut85points
- We Who Wrestle with GodDeep Cut85points
- We'll Always Have SummerDeep 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.