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
- Dating GameDeep Cut85points
- Daughter of FortuneDeep Cut85points
- Daughter of Smoke and BoneDeep Cut85points
- Daughter of the DeepDeep Cut85points
- Daughter of the EmpireDeep Cut85points
- Daughter of the Moon GoddessDeep Cut85points
- David and GoliathDeep Cut85points
- David Gets in TroubleDeep Cut85points
- David Goes to SchoolDeep Cut85points
- David's FatherDeep Cut85points
- Dawn and the Big SleepoverDeep Cut85points
- Dawn and the Impossible ThreeDeep Cut85points
- Dawn and the Older BoyDeep Cut85points
- Dawn on the CoastDeep Cut85points
- Dawn's Big DateDeep Cut85points
- Dawn's Wicked StepsisterDeep Cut85points
- Day of the Dragon KingDeep Cut85points
- DaybreakDeep Cut85points
- Daydream (Hannah Grace)Deep Cut85points
- DaylightDeep Cut85points
- Days at the Morisaki BookshopDeep Cut85points
- Days of Our YearsDeep Cut85points
- Days with Frog and ToadDeep Cut85points
- DazzleDeep Cut85points
- Deacon King KongDeep Cut85points
- Dead and AliveDeep Cut85points
- Dead and GoneDeep Cut85points
- Dead as a DoornailDeep Cut85points
- Dead End in NorveltDeep Cut85points
- Dead FallDeep Cut85points
- Dead Famous (Ben Elton)Deep Cut85points
- Dead in the FamilyDeep Cut85points
- Dead LionsDeep Cut85points
- Dead Man's FollyDeep Cut85points
- Dead Man's WalkDeep Cut85points
- Dead or AliveDeep Cut85points
- Dead ReckoningDeep Cut85points
- Dead to the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Dead Until DarkDeep Cut85points
- Dead WakeDeep Cut85points
- Deadhouse GatesDeep Cut85points
- Deadline (Fern Michaels)Deep Cut85points
- Deadline (Sandra Brown)Deep Cut85points
- DeadlockDeep Cut85points
- DeadlyDeep Cut85points
- Deadly CrossDeep Cut85points
- Deadly DealsDeep Cut85points
- Deadly DécisionsDeep Cut85points
- Deadly EmbraceDeep Cut85points
- Deadly IntentDeep 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.