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
- Equal RitesDeep Cut85points
- EricDeep Cut85points
- Ernie and Bert Can--Can You?Deep Cut85points
- Ernie's Bath BookDeep Cut85points
- EruptionDeep Cut85points
- Escape from HorrorLandDeep Cut85points
- Escape from LucienDeep Cut85points
- Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's LibraryDeep Cut85points
- Escape from the Carnival of HorrorsDeep Cut85points
- Escape from the Island of AquariusDeep Cut85points
- Escaping PerilDeep Cut85points
- Esio TrotDeep Cut85points
- Essentials of Classic Italian CookingDeep Cut85points
- Essentials of Fire FightingDeep Cut85points
- est: Playing the Game the New WayDeep Cut85points
- Estação CarandiruDeep Cut85points
- EternalDeep Cut85points
- EthicsDeep Cut85points
- Euclid's ElementsDeep Cut85points
- Eugene OneginDeep Cut85points
- Eulalia!Deep Cut85points
- Eva LunaDeep Cut85points
- Eve of the Emperor PenguinDeep Cut85points
- Even If This Love Disappears TonightDeep Cut85points
- Even If You Don't Do ItDeep Cut85points
- Evening ClassDeep Cut85points
- Evening in ByzantiumDeep Cut85points
- Ever Increasing FaithDeep Cut85points
- EvergreenDeep Cut85points
- Evermore (Alyson Noël)Deep Cut85points
- EvervilleDeep Cut85points
- Every BreathDeep Cut85points
- Every Breath You TakeDeep Cut85points
- Every Day a FridayDeep Cut85points
- Every Fifteen MinutesDeep Cut85points
- Every Man's BattleDeep Cut85points
- Every Night, Josephine!Deep Cut85points
- Every Note PlayedDeep Cut85points
- Every Thing On ItDeep Cut85points
- Every Young Man's BattleDeep Cut85points
- Every Young Woman's BattleDeep Cut85points
- Everybody, AlwaysDeep Cut85points
- Everyday Saints and Other StoriesDeep Cut85points
- Everyday Super FoodDeep Cut85points
- Everyone Here Is LyingDeep Cut85points
- Everyone Is Italian on SundayDeep Cut85points
- Everyone PoopsDeep Cut85points
- Everything I Know About LoveDeep Cut85points
- Everything Is F*ckedDeep Cut85points
- Everything Is TuberculosisDeep 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.