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
- Garfield Hogs the SpotlightDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Keeps His Chins UpDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Lard of the JungleDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Large & In ChargeDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Life in the Fat LaneDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Life to the FullestDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Loses His FeetDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Makes It BigDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Older and WiderDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Out to LunchDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Pigs OutDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Potbelly of GoldDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Pulls His WeightDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Rolls OnDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Rounds OutDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Says a MouthfulDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Shovels It InDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Sings for His SupperDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Sits Around the HouseDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Spills the BeansDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Survival of the FattestDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Swallows His PrideDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Takes His LicksDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Takes the CakeDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Takes Up SpaceDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Thinks BigDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Throws His Weight AroundDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Tips the ScalesDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Tons of FunDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Weighs His OptionsDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Weighs InDeep Cut85points
- Garfield Will Eat for FoodDeep Cut85points
- Garfield WorldwideDeep Cut85points
- Garfield: His 9 LivesDeep Cut85points
- GastonDeep Cut85points
- Gatan Goton Gatan GotonDeep Cut85points
- Gates of FireDeep Cut85points
- Gates of ParadiseDeep Cut85points
- Gathering BlueDeep Cut85points
- Geek LoveDeep Cut85points
- GeGeGe no NyōbōDeep Cut85points
- Gekisha: 135-nin no Onna TomodachiDeep Cut85points
- Gender TroubleDeep Cut85points
- GenkiDeep Cut85points
- Gentle and LowlyDeep Cut85points
- Gentleman's AgreementDeep Cut85points
- Gentlemen Prefer BlondesDeep Cut85points
- Genuine LiesDeep Cut85points
- George and MarthaDeep Cut85points
- George and the Big BangDeep 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.