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
- CaptivatedDeep Cut85points
- CaptivatingDeep Cut85points
- Captive PassionsDeep Cut85points
- Captive PrinceDeep Cut85points
- Captive StarDeep Cut85points
- CaravalDeep Cut85points
- Caravan to VaccarèsDeep Cut85points
- CaravansDeep Cut85points
- Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear CardDeep Cut85points
- Cards on the TableDeep Cut85points
- Career of EvilDeep Cut85points
- Careless PeopleDeep Cut85points
- Cari MoraDeep Cut85points
- CaribbeanDeep Cut85points
- Carl's Doomsday ScenarioDeep Cut85points
- Carnal InnocenceDeep Cut85points
- Carnival at CandlelightDeep Cut85points
- CarolDeep Cut85points
- Carolina MoonDeep Cut85points
- Caroline chérieDeep Cut85points
- Carpe JugulumDeep Cut85points
- Carrie Soto Is BackDeep Cut85points
- Carry OnDeep Cut85points
- Carry On, WarriorDeep Cut85points
- CarsDeep Cut85points
- Cashflow QuadrantDeep Cut85points
- Castaways of the Flying DutchmanDeep Cut85points
- CasteDeep Cut85points
- Castle in the AirDeep Cut85points
- Casual Day Has Gone Too FarDeep Cut85points
- Cat & MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cat Among the PigeonsDeep Cut85points
- Cat and Mouse in a Haunted HouseDeep Cut85points
- Cat Kid Comic ClubDeep Cut85points
- Cat Kid Comic Club: CollaborationsDeep Cut85points
- Cat Kid Comic Club: On PurposeDeep Cut85points
- Cat Kid Comic Club: PerspectivesDeep Cut85points
- Cat O' Nine TalesDeep Cut85points
- Cat's Cradle (Klutz)Deep Cut85points
- Cat's EyeDeep Cut85points
- Cat's Eye (Margaret Atwood)Deep Cut85points
- Catch MeDeep Cut85points
- Catch Me If You CanDeep Cut85points
- Catch Me, Catch Me!Deep Cut85points
- Catching the Big FishDeep Cut85points
- Catechism of the Catholic ChurchDeep Cut85points
- Catherine, Called BirdyDeep Cut85points
- CatlowDeep Cut85points
- CaughtDeep Cut85points
- Cause of DeathDeep 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.