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
- EarthlingsDeep Cut85points
- Earthly PossessionsDeep Cut85points
- Earthquake in the Early MorningDeep Cut85points
- Eat Great, Lose WeightDeep Cut85points
- Eat Right 4 Your TypeDeep Cut85points
- Eat This, Not That!Deep Cut85points
- Eat This, Not That! Supermarket Survival GuideDeep Cut85points
- Eaters of the DeadDeep Cut85points
- Eating Well for Optimum HealthDeep Cut85points
- Eats, Shoots & LeavesDeep Cut85points
- Eben HoldenDeep Cut85points
- EchoDeep Cut85points
- Echo BurningDeep Cut85points
- Echo in the DarknessDeep Cut85points
- Echo ParkDeep Cut85points
- EchoesDeep Cut85points
- Echoes (Maeve Binchy)Deep Cut85points
- Echoes in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Eclipse of the Crescent MoonDeep Cut85points
- Economics (Samuelson)Deep Cut85points
- Economics in One LessonDeep Cut85points
- Eden BurningDeep Cut85points
- Edge of EternityDeep Cut85points
- Edmonds Cookery BookDeep Cut85points
- Education of a Wandering ManDeep Cut85points
- Een vlucht regenwulpenDeep Cut85points
- Egg Monsters from MarsDeep Cut85points
- EggheadDeep Cut85points
- Ego Is the EnemyDeep Cut85points
- Eight Days to LiveDeep Cut85points
- EileenDeep Cut85points
- EinsteinDeep Cut85points
- Einstein: His Life and Universe (Isaacson)Deep Cut85points
- El DeafoDeep Cut85points
- El túnel (Ernesto Sabato)Deep Cut85points
- ElantrisDeep Cut85points
- Elbert's Bad WordDeep Cut85points
- EldestDeep Cut85points
- Eleanor and FranklinDeep Cut85points
- Elephant SongDeep Cut85points
- Elephants Can RememberDeep Cut85points
- Elephants Cannot Dance!Deep Cut85points
- ElevationDeep Cut85points
- Eleven CatsDeep Cut85points
- Eleven MinutesDeep Cut85points
- Eleven on TopDeep Cut85points
- Elfangor's SecretDeep Cut85points
- Elijah of BuxtonDeep Cut85points
- Elizabeth Is MissingDeep Cut85points
- Ella EnchantedDeep 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.