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
- Club DeadDeep Cut85points
- CobraDeep Cut85points
- CockroachesDeep Cut85points
- CodeDeep Cut85points
- Code CompleteDeep Cut85points
- Code Name BananasDeep Cut85points
- Code of ConductDeep Cut85points
- Code of HonorDeep Cut85points
- Code of the WestDeep Cut85points
- Code RedDeep Cut85points
- Code to ZeroDeep Cut85points
- Codependent No MoreDeep Cut85points
- Cold Comfort FarmDeep Cut85points
- Cold FireDeep Cut85points
- Cold MountainDeep Cut85points
- Cold VengeanceDeep Cut85points
- Cold, Cold BonesDeep Cut85points
- Coldheart CanyonDeep Cut85points
- CollapseDeep Cut85points
- Collateral DamageDeep Cut85points
- Collins English DictionaryDeep Cut85points
- Colonel SunDeep Cut85points
- ColonyDeep Cut85points
- Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of PilgrimageDeep Cut85points
- Colour BlindDeep Cut85points
- Come HomeDeep Cut85points
- Come Over to My HouseDeep Cut85points
- Come SundownDeep Cut85points
- Come ThirstyDeep Cut85points
- Comet in MoominlandDeep Cut85points
- Comet's Nine LivesDeep Cut85points
- Cometh the HourDeep Cut85points
- Comfort & JoyDeep Cut85points
- Coming HomeDeep Cut85points
- Coming OutDeep Cut85points
- Coming Up for AirDeep Cut85points
- Command AuthorityDeep Cut85points
- Command PerformanceDeep Cut85points
- Commander in ChiefDeep Cut85points
- CommittedDeep Cut85points
- CommonwealthDeep Cut85points
- ComplicationsDeep Cut85points
- CompulsionDeep Cut85points
- Comstock LodeDeep Cut85points
- ConagherDeep Cut85points
- Concealed in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Concepts of PhysicsDeep Cut85points
- Concrete RoseDeep Cut85points
- ConfessDeep Cut85points
- Confessions (Augustine)Deep 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.