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
- Deal BreakerDeep Cut85points
- Deal With It!Deep Cut85points
- Dear and Glorious PhysicianDeep Cut85points
- Dear BoysDeep Cut85points
- Dear EmilyDeep Cut85points
- Dear EnemyDeep Cut85points
- Dear Evan HansenDeep Cut85points
- Dear FattyDeep Cut85points
- Dear Mr. HenshawDeep Cut85points
- Dear NobodyDeep Cut85points
- Dear SantaDeep Cut85points
- Dear ZooDeep Cut85points
- Death by Black HoleDeep Cut85points
- Death Comes as the EndDeep Cut85points
- Death Comes for the ArchbishopDeep Cut85points
- Death du JourDeep Cut85points
- Death in the CloudsDeep Cut85points
- Death in VeniceDeep Cut85points
- Death of the Black WidowDeep Cut85points
- Debt of HonorDeep Cut85points
- Deception PointDeep Cut85points
- Deceptively DeliciousDeep Cut85points
- Decision PointsDeep Cut85points
- DecisiveDeep Cut85points
- Deck the HallsDeep Cut85points
- Decluttering at the Speed of LifeDeep Cut85points
- DeenieDeep Cut85points
- Deep FathomDeep Cut85points
- Deep SixDeep Cut85points
- Deep StormDeep Cut85points
- Deep TroubleDeep Cut85points
- Deep Trouble IIDeep Cut85points
- Deeper Than the DeadDeep Cut85points
- Deeply OddDeep Cut85points
- Defending JacobDeep Cut85points
- DefiantDeep Cut85points
- Definitely DeadDeep Cut85points
- Defy MeDeep Cut85points
- Déjà DeadDeep Cut85points
- Dekada '70Deep Cut85points
- Delia Smith's Complete Cookery CourseDeep Cut85points
- Delia's How to CookDeep Cut85points
- Delicious in DungeonDeep Cut85points
- DeliriumDeep Cut85points
- Deliver Us from EvilDeep Cut85points
- Delta of VenusDeep Cut85points
- Delusion in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Demain (Guillaume Musso)Deep Cut85points
- Demi-Gods and Semi-DevilsDeep Cut85points
- DemianDeep 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.