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
- Demolition AngelDeep Cut85points
- Demon CopperheadDeep Cut85points
- Demon DentistDeep Cut85points
- Demon SeedDeep Cut85points
- Den of ThievesDeep Cut85points
- Department 19Deep Cut85points
- Depraved HeartDeep Cut85points
- Der Arzt von StalingradDeep Cut85points
- Der Hitlerjunge QuexDeep Cut85points
- Dere MableDeep Cut85points
- Descent from XanaduDeep Cut85points
- DesecrationDeep Cut85points
- Desert GodDeep Cut85points
- Desert GoldDeep Cut85points
- Desert StarDeep Cut85points
- Design PatternsDeep Cut85points
- DesiréeDeep Cut85points
- Desiring GodDeep Cut85points
- DesperationDeep Cut85points
- Desperation in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Dessert PersonDeep Cut85points
- Destination UnknownDeep Cut85points
- DestinedDeep Cut85points
- DetectiveDeep Cut85points
- Detective Conan: Zero's Tea TimeDeep Cut85points
- Devil BonesDeep Cut85points
- Devil's GateDeep Cut85points
- DevilmanDeep Cut85points
- DevolutionDeep Cut85points
- DevotedDeep Cut85points
- Devoted in DeathDeep Cut85points
- DevotionsDeep Cut85points
- DhalgrenDeep Cut85points
- DhammapadaDeep Cut85points
- Diablo MesaDeep Cut85points
- Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental DisordersDeep Cut85points
- Diana: Her True StoryDeep Cut85points
- DianeticsDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a FlyDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a SpiderDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Do-It-Yourself BookDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Big ShotDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper ÖverlödeDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Double DownDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: No BrainerDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Old SchoolDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: PartypooperDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep EndDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The MeltdownDeep Cut85points
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking BallDeep 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.