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
- CHERUB: Man vs BeastDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: Maximum SecurityDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: Shadow WaveDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: The FallDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: The GeneralDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: The KillingDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: The RecruitDeep Cut85points
- CHERUB: The SleepwalkerDeep Cut85points
- ChesapeakeDeep Cut85points
- Chesapeake BlueDeep Cut85points
- Chess StoryDeep Cut85points
- Chester's WayDeep Cut85points
- Chestnut StreetDeep Cut85points
- Chibi Maruko-chanDeep Cut85points
- Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3Deep Cut85points
- Chicka Chicka ABCDeep Cut85points
- Chicken ChickenDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Soup for the College SoulDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Soup for the Kid's SoulDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Soup for the Preteen SoulDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Soup for the Teenage SoulDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IIDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul IIIDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Soup with RiceDeep Cut85points
- ChihayafuruDeep Cut85points
- Chiisai Momo-chanDeep Cut85points
- Child 44Deep Cut85points
- Child of GodDeep Cut85points
- Child's PlayDeep Cut85points
- Childhood (Cosby)Deep Cut85points
- Childhood's EndDeep Cut85points
- Children Are from HeavenDeep Cut85points
- Children of Anguish and AnarchyDeep Cut85points
- Children of DuneDeep Cut85points
- Children of EdenDeep Cut85points
- Children of the MindDeep Cut85points
- Children of TimeDeep Cut85points
- Children of Virtue and VengeanceDeep Cut85points
- Chill FactorDeep Cut85points
- China DollsDeep Cut85points
- Chinese CinderellaDeep Cut85points
- Chip WarDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate FeverDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate SensōDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate: The Consuming PassionDeep Cut85points
- Choke (Chuck Palahniuk)Deep Cut85points
- Choo ChooDeep Cut85points
- Chosen to DieDeep Cut85points
- Christ the Lord: Out of EgyptDeep Cut85points
- Christ the Lord: The Road to CanaDeep 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.