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
- Confessions (Kanae Minato)Deep Cut85points
- Confessions of a Murder SuspectDeep Cut85points
- Confessions of a Wild ChildDeep Cut85points
- Confessions of an Economic Hit ManDeep Cut85points
- Confucius from the HeartDeep Cut85points
- CongoDeep Cut85points
- ConistonDeep Cut85points
- Connections in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Consent to KillDeep Cut85points
- Consider the LobsterDeep Cut85points
- Considering KateDeep Cut85points
- Conspiracy in DeathDeep Cut85points
- ContactDeep Cut85points
- Convenience Store WomanDeep Cut85points
- Conversations with FriendsDeep Cut85points
- Conversations with GodDeep Cut85points
- Convincing AlexDeep Cut85points
- Cook Like a ProDeep Cut85points
- Cook This, Not That!Deep Cut85points
- Cook with JamieDeep Cut85points
- Cook, Eat, RepeatDeep Cut85points
- CookedDeep Cut85points
- CookieDeep Cut85points
- Cooking for JeffreyDeep Cut85points
- Cooking: A Very Slightly Messy ManualDeep Cut85points
- Cop TownDeep Cut85points
- Copper SunDeep Cut85points
- Cordina's Crown JewelDeep Cut85points
- CorneliusDeep Cut85points
- CorsairDeep Cut85points
- Cottage by the SeaDeep Cut85points
- Count ZeroDeep Cut85points
- CountdownDeep Cut85points
- Counting by 7sDeep Cut85points
- Counting MiraclesDeep Cut85points
- CountryDeep Cut85points
- CouplehoodDeep Cut85points
- CouplesDeep Cut85points
- Courting CatherineDeep Cut85points
- Courtney's WarDeep Cut85points
- Courtroom (Reynolds)Deep Cut85points
- Cows of Our PlanetDeep Cut85points
- Cracking the Coding InterviewDeep Cut85points
- Cradle and AllDeep Cut85points
- Crash (Jerry Spinelli)Deep Cut85points
- Crash & BurnDeep Cut85points
- CravingsDeep Cut85points
- Cravings (Teigen)Deep Cut85points
- Cravings: All TogetherDeep Cut85points
- Cravings: Hungry for MoreDeep 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.