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
- Fun for the Secret SevenDeep Cut85points
- Fun HomeDeep Cut85points
- Fundamentals of PhysicsDeep Cut85points
- Funeral in BerlinDeep Cut85points
- Furaipan JiisanDeep Cut85points
- Furiously HappyDeep Cut85points
- Fushigi YûgiDeep Cut85points
- Future ShockDeep Cut85points
- FuzzDeep Cut85points
- Fuzzy MudDeep Cut85points
- Fuzzy Yellow DucklingsDeep Cut85points
- Gabriela, Clove and CinnamonDeep Cut85points
- GachiakutaDeep Cut85points
- Gai-JinDeep Cut85points
- GalápagosDeep Cut85points
- Galaxy in FlamesDeep Cut85points
- GalileeDeep Cut85points
- GallowayDeep Cut85points
- GambleDeep Cut85points
- Game ChangerDeep Cut85points
- Game OnDeep Cut85points
- Game OverDeep Cut85points
- Games People PlayDeep Cut85points
- Gangsta Granny Strikes Again!Deep Cut85points
- GantzDeep Cut85points
- Gap CreekDeep Cut85points
- Garden of ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Gardens of the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Garfield at LargeDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Beefs UpDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Bigger and BetterDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Bigger Than LifeDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Blots Out the SunDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Brings Home the BaconDeep Cut85points
- Garfield by the PoundDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Chews the FatDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Dishes It OutDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Eats CrowDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Eats His Heart OutDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Feeds the KittyDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Food for ThoughtDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Gains WeightDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Gets Cookin'Deep Cut85points
- Garfield Gets His Just DessertsDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Gets in a PickleDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Goes BananasDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Goes to WaistDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Hams It UpDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Hangs OutDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Hits the Big TimeDeep 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.