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
- Waiting for GodotRare60points
- WaldenRare60points
- War HorseRare60points
- Warriors: Into the WildRare60points
- WatchmenRare60points
- Water for ElephantsRare60points
- Watership DownRare60points
- We Have Always Lived in the CastleRare60points
- We Need to Talk About KevinRare60points
- We Should All Be FeministsRare60points
- We're Going on a Bear HuntRare60points
- What Color Is Your Parachute?Rare60points
- What Do You Do with an Idea?Rare60points
- What If?Rare60points
- What to Expect When You're ExpectingRare60points
- When Breath Becomes AirRare60points
- Where Eagles DareRare60points
- Where Rainbows EndRare60points
- Where the Red Fern GrowsRare60points
- Where the Sidewalk EndsRare60points
- Where's Wally? The Fantastic JourneyRare60points
- White FragilityRare60points
- White NightsRare60points
- White TeethRare60points
- Who Moved My Cheese?Rare60points
- Why Nations FailRare60points
- Why We SleepRare60points
- Wicked (Gregory Maguire)Rare60points
- WildRare60points
- Wild (Strayed)Rare60points
- WinnetouRare60points
- Without RemorseRare60points
- Wizard's First RuleRare60points
- Wolf HallRare60points
- Woman, Thou Art Loosed!Rare60points
- World War ZRare60points
- YellowfaceRare60points
- Yertle the TurtleRare60points
- You Are a BadassRare60points
- You Can Heal Your LifeRare60points
- You've Reached SamRare60points
- Yours TrulyRare60points
- Yu-Gi-Oh!Rare60points
- ZathuraRare60points
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle MaintenanceRare60points
- Zorba the GreekRare60points
- A Christmas CarolSchooler30points
- A Court of Thorns and RosesSchooler30points
- A Game of ThronesSchooler30points
- A Midsummer Night's DreamSchooler30points
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.