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
- Perfume: The Story of a MurdererRare60points
- PersepolisRare60points
- Pet SemataryRare60points
- Petals on the WindRare60points
- Pete the Cat: I Love My White ShoesRare60points
- Peter PanRare60points
- PinkaliciousRare60points
- Pippi LongstockingRare60points
- PiranesiRare60points
- Player's HandbookRare60points
- Presumed InnocentRare60points
- Pretty Little LiarsRare60points
- Pride and Prejudice and ZombiesRare60points
- Prince CaspianRare60points
- Prisoners of GeographyRare60points
- Project Hail MaryRare60points
- Purple HibiscusRare60points
- Quidditch Through the AgesRare60points
- Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop TalkingRare60points
- Quotations from Chairman Mao Tse-tungRare60points
- Rainbow SixRare60points
- Ramona Quimby, Age 8Rare60points
- Ramona the PestRare60points
- Ranma ½Rare60points
- Ready Player OneRare60points
- RebeccaRare60points
- Record of RagnarokRare60points
- RecursionRare60points
- Red DragonRare60points
- Red NoticeRare60points
- Red RisingRare60points
- Red Storm RisingRare60points
- Red, White & Royal BlueRare60points
- Redeeming LoveRare60points
- RedwallRare60points
- RefugeeRare60points
- Reminders of HimRare60points
- Richard Scarry's Best Word Book EverRare60points
- Richard Scarry's Cars and Trucks and Things That GoRare60points
- Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day?Rare60points
- Ripley's Believe It or Not!Rare60points
- Robinson CrusoeRare60points
- Roget's ThesaurusRare60points
- Roll of Thunder, Hear My CryRare60points
- Romance of the Three KingdomsRare60points
- Romancing Mister BridgertonRare60points
- Room on the BroomRare60points
- RootsRare60points
- Rosemary's BabyRare60points
- Rumble FishRare60points
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.