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
- Five Nights at Freddy's: The Silver EyesRare60points
- Five Point SomeoneRare60points
- Five SurviveRare60points
- Flat StanleyRare60points
- FlippedRare60points
- Flowers for AlgernonRare60points
- Flowers in the AtticRare60points
- Fool Me OnceRare60points
- For Whom the Bell TollsRare60points
- For Your Eyes OnlyRare60points
- Force 10 from NavaroneRare60points
- Forrest GumpRare60points
- FoundationRare60points
- Fox in SocksRare60points
- Freak the MightyRare60points
- FreakonomicsRare60points
- FreedRare60points
- Friday Night LightsRare60points
- Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop CafeRare60points
- FrindleRare60points
- Frog and Toad Are FriendsRare60points
- From Russia, with LoveRare60points
- From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. FrankweilerRare60points
- Frozen (Little Golden Book)Rare60points
- Fruits BasketRare60points
- Fullmetal AlchemistRare60points
- Funny StoryRare60points
- Gangsta GrannyRare60points
- George's Marvellous MedicineRare60points
- GerminalRare60points
- Giraffes Can't DanceRare60points
- Girl in PiecesRare60points
- Girl, Wash Your FaceRare60points
- Go Ask AliceRare60points
- Go Set a WatchmanRare60points
- Go the F**k to SleepRare60points
- Go, Dog. Go!Rare60points
- Going SoloRare60points
- GoldfingerRare60points
- Good Night Stories for Rebel GirlsRare60points
- Good Night, GorillaRare60points
- Good to GreatRare60points
- Goodnight PunpunRare60points
- Gorky ParkRare60points
- Gossip GirlRare60points
- Gravity Falls: Journal 3Rare60points
- Gray's AnatomyRare60points
- Great ExpectationsRare60points
- GreenlightsRare60points
- Grimms' Fairy TalesRare60points
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.