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
- Doonesbury DeluxeDeep Cut85points
- Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan YearsDeep Cut85points
- Doonesbury's Greatest HitsDeep Cut85points
- DoppelgangerDeep Cut85points
- Dora's World Adventure!Deep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: How to Dork Your DiaryDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Best Friend ForeverDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Dorky Drama QueenDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Friendly FrenemyDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Glam TV StarDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happily Ever AfterDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Happy BirthdayDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Perfect Pet SitterDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party GirlDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Secret Crush CatastropheDeep Cut85points
- Dork Diaries: Tales from a Not-So-Talented Pop StarDeep Cut85points
- Double ActDeep Cut85points
- Double CrossDeep Cut85points
- Double FudgeDeep Cut85points
- Double LoveDeep Cut85points
- Down and Out in Paris and LondonDeep Cut85points
- Down the Darkest RoadDeep Cut85points
- Down the Long HillsDeep Cut85points
- Down UnderDeep Cut85points
- DowntownDeep Cut85points
- Dōzo no IsuDeep Cut85points
- Dr. Atkins' New Diet RevolutionDeep Cut85points
- Dr. Maniac vs. Robby SchwartzDeep Cut85points
- Dr. Maniac Will See You NowDeep Cut85points
- Dr. NoDeep Cut85points
- Dr. Seuss's Horse MuseumDeep Cut85points
- Dr. Seuss's Sleep BookDeep Cut85points
- Dr. SlumpDeep Cut85points
- Dr. StoneDeep Cut85points
- DragonDeep Cut85points
- Dragon Ball SuperDeep Cut85points
- Dragon HeadDeep Cut85points
- Dragon Masters: Rise of the Earth DragonDeep Cut85points
- Dragon of the Red DawnDeep Cut85points
- Dragon PearlDeep Cut85points
- Dragon Quest: The Adventure of DaiDeep Cut85points
- Dragon RajaDeep Cut85points
- Dragon RiderDeep Cut85points
- Dragon SeedDeep Cut85points
- Dragon TearsDeep Cut85points
- Dragon TeethDeep Cut85points
- DragondrumsDeep Cut85points
- DragonflightDeep Cut85points
- Dragonfly in AmberDeep Cut85points
- DragonquestDeep 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.