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
- Dōbutsu Iroiro KakurenboDeep Cut85points
- Dōbutsu no OyakoDeep Cut85points
- Doctor Dan the Bandage ManDeep Cut85points
- Doctor FaustusDeep Cut85points
- DoctorsDeep Cut85points
- Doctrine and CovenantsDeep Cut85points
- DodsworthDeep Cut85points
- Does a Kangaroo Have a Mother, Too?Deep Cut85points
- Dog DiariesDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man and Cat KidDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: A Tale of Two KittiesDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Big Jim BeginsDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Big Jim BelievesDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Brawl of the WildDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Fetch-22Deep Cut85points
- Dog Man: For Whom the Ball RollsDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Grime and PunishmentDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Lord of the FleasDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Mothering HeightsDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: The Scarlet ShedderDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: Twenty Thousand Fleas Under the SeaDeep Cut85points
- Dog Man: UnleashedDeep Cut85points
- Dogbert's Top Secret Management HandbookDeep Cut85points
- DoggiesDeep Cut85points
- DoglapanDeep Cut85points
- Dogs in the Dead of NightDeep Cut85points
- DogsongDeep Cut85points
- DoloresDeep Cut85points
- Dolores ClaiborneDeep Cut85points
- Dolphins at DaybreakDeep Cut85points
- Dom CasmurroDeep Cut85points
- Dombey and SonDeep Cut85points
- Don't BlinkDeep Cut85points
- Don't Call It MysteryDeep Cut85points
- Don't Give the Enemy a Seat at Your TableDeep Cut85points
- Don't GoDeep Cut85points
- Don't Go Near the WaterDeep Cut85points
- Don't Go to Sleep!Deep Cut85points
- Don't Know Much About HistoryDeep Cut85points
- Don't Let GoDeep Cut85points
- Don't Let the Pigeon Stay Up Late!Deep Cut85points
- Don't Make Me ThinkDeep Cut85points
- Don't Stand Too Close to a Naked ManDeep Cut85points
- Don't Step in the LeadershipDeep Cut85points
- Don't Stop the CarnivalDeep Cut85points
- Don't Sweat the Small Stuff... and It's All Small StuffDeep Cut85points
- Don't Waste Your LifeDeep Cut85points
- Don't You Forget About MeDeep Cut85points
- Dooby Dooby MooDeep Cut85points
- DoomwyteDeep 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.