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
- Crayon Shin-chanDeep Cut85points
- Crazy LoveDeep Cut85points
- Creation in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Creature TeacherDeep Cut85points
- Creature Teacher: The Final ExamDeep Cut85points
- Creatures of the KingdomDeep Cut85points
- CredenceDeep Cut85points
- CreedDeep Cut85points
- Creep from the DeepDeep Cut85points
- CrenshawDeep Cut85points
- Crescent City (Belva Plain)Deep Cut85points
- Crescent DawnDeep Cut85points
- CressDeep Cut85points
- Crest of the Royal FamilyDeep Cut85points
- CriminalDeep Cut85points
- Crimson ShoreDeep Cut85points
- Crippled AmericaDeep Cut85points
- Crisis InvestingDeep Cut85points
- Crispin: The Cross of LeadDeep Cut85points
- Criss CrossDeep Cut85points
- Critique of Pure ReasonDeep Cut85points
- Crockery CookeryDeep Cut85points
- Crocodile TearsDeep Cut85points
- Croisade à Managua (SAS)Deep Cut85points
- Crook ManifestoDeep Cut85points
- Crooked HouseDeep Cut85points
- Crooked KingdomDeep Cut85points
- Crooked RiverDeep Cut85points
- Crookedstar's PromiseDeep Cut85points
- Cross (James Patterson)Deep Cut85points
- Cross BonesDeep Cut85points
- Cross CountryDeep Cut85points
- Cross DownDeep Cut85points
- Cross FireDeep Cut85points
- Cross JusticeDeep Cut85points
- Cross My HeartDeep Cut85points
- Cross RoadsDeep Cut85points
- Cross the LineDeep Cut85points
- Crossing the ChasmDeep Cut85points
- Crossing the Threshold of HopeDeep Cut85points
- CrossingsDeep Cut85points
- Crossroads (Jonathan Franzen)Deep Cut85points
- Crossroads of TwilightDeep Cut85points
- Crowfeather's TrialDeep Cut85points
- Crown JewelDeep Cut85points
- Crown of HornsDeep Cut85points
- Crown of MidnightDeep Cut85points
- Crowned HeadsDeep Cut85points
- Crucible (James Rollins)Deep Cut85points
- Cruel and UnusualDeep 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.