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
- Worry Less, Pray MoreDeep Cut85points
- WorstDeep Cut85points
- Worst CaseDeep Cut85points
- Worth Dying ForDeep Cut85points
- Worth the RiskDeep Cut85points
- Worthy OpponentsDeep Cut85points
- Wotakoi: Love Is Hard for OtakuDeep Cut85points
- Would I Lie to YouDeep Cut85points
- Would You Rather Be a Bullfrog?Deep Cut85points
- Wouldn't Take Nothing for My Journey NowDeep Cut85points
- Wreck This JournalDeep Cut85points
- WringerDeep Cut85points
- Wyrd SistersDeep Cut85points
- XDeep Cut85points
- XenocideDeep Cut85points
- XIIIDeep Cut85points
- Xinhua ZidianDeep Cut85points
- XPDDeep Cut85points
- xxxHolicDeep Cut85points
- Y Ahora QueDeep Cut85points
- Yaiba: Samurai LegendDeep Cut85points
- Yankee from OlympusDeep Cut85points
- Yawara!Deep Cut85points
- Yeager (Yeager)Deep Cut85points
- Year OneDeep Cut85points
- Yellowfang's SecretDeep Cut85points
- Yes PleaseDeep Cut85points
- Yesterday's SpyDeep Cut85points
- YokoDeep Cut85points
- Yotsuba&!Deep Cut85points
- You Are SpecialDeep Cut85points
- You Are What You EatDeep Cut85points
- You Belong to MeDeep Cut85points
- You Can, You WillDeep Cut85points
- You Can't Go Home AgainDeep Cut85points
- You Can't Scare Me!Deep Cut85points
- You Can't Win, Charlie BrownDeep Cut85points
- You Don't Own MeDeep Cut85points
- You Just Don't UnderstandDeep Cut85points
- You Know You Love MeDeep Cut85points
- You Like It DarkerDeep Cut85points
- You Only Live TwiceDeep Cut85points
- You Will Get Through This NightDeep Cut85points
- You: On a DietDeep Cut85points
- You: Staying YoungDeep Cut85points
- YOU: The Owner's ManualDeep Cut85points
- You'll Get Through ThisDeep Cut85points
- You'll See It When You Believe ItDeep Cut85points
- You're Only Old Once!Deep Cut85points
- You're Out of Your Mind, Charlie Brown!Deep 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.