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
- Hidden JewelDeep Cut85points
- Hidden OrderDeep Cut85points
- Hidden PicturesDeep Cut85points
- Hidden PotentialDeep Cut85points
- Hidden RichesDeep Cut85points
- Hidden StarDeep Cut85points
- Hidden Valley RoadDeep Cut85points
- HideDeep Cut85points
- Hide and SeekDeep Cut85points
- Hideaway (Dean Koontz)Deep Cut85points
- Higglety Pigglety Pop! or There Must Be More to LifeDeep Cut85points
- High FiveDeep Cut85points
- High NoonDeep Cut85points
- High NotesDeep Cut85points
- High RhulainDeep Cut85points
- High Tide in HawaiiDeep Cut85points
- High Tide in TucsonDeep Cut85points
- High Time for HeroesDeep Cut85points
- Hikaru no GoDeep Cut85points
- Hill TownsDeep Cut85points
- Hinds' Feet on High PlacesDeep Cut85points
- HippieDeep Cut85points
- Hippos Go Berserk!Deep Cut85points
- His Bright LightDeep Cut85points
- His Last BowDeep Cut85points
- His WayDeep Cut85points
- History Is All You Left MeDeep Cut85points
- History of BeautyDeep Cut85points
- History of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (Bolsheviks)Deep Cut85points
- History of the Peloponnesian WarDeep Cut85points
- Hit and Run HolidayDeep Cut85points
- Hitori de Unchi Dekiru KanaDeep Cut85points
- HMS UlyssesDeep Cut85points
- Hocus PocusDeep Cut85points
- Hokus PokusDeep Cut85points
- Hold the DreamDeep Cut85points
- Hold TightDeep Cut85points
- Holding the DreamDeep Cut85points
- Holding Up the UniverseDeep Cut85points
- Holiday in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Holidays on IceDeep Cut85points
- HollyDeep Cut85points
- Hollywood DivorcesDeep Cut85points
- Hollywood HusbandsDeep Cut85points
- Hollywood KidsDeep Cut85points
- Hollywood WivesDeep Cut85points
- Hollywood Wives: The New GenerationDeep Cut85points
- Holmes, Marple & PoeDeep Cut85points
- Homage to CataloniaDeep Cut85points
- HomeDeep 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.