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
- Home Before DarkDeep Cut85points
- Home for a BunnyDeep Cut85points
- Home for ChristmasDeep Cut85points
- Home FrontDeep Cut85points
- Home GameDeep Cut85points
- Home Is on Top of a Dog HouseDeep Cut85points
- Home of the BraveDeep Cut85points
- HomebodyDeep Cut85points
- HomecomingDeep Cut85points
- HomegoingDeep Cut85points
- HomeplaceDeep Cut85points
- HomeportDeep Cut85points
- Homer & LangleyDeep Cut85points
- Homicidal Psycho Jungle CatDeep Cut85points
- Honest IllusionsDeep Cut85points
- Honey and CloverDeep Cut85points
- Honey Lemon SodaDeep Cut85points
- Honey... Honey... Lion!Deep Cut85points
- HoneymoonDeep Cut85points
- Honor ThyselfDeep Cut85points
- Honour Among ThievesDeep Cut85points
- Honus & MeDeep Cut85points
- Hood FeminismDeep Cut85points
- Hooked (Nir Eyal)Deep Cut85points
- Hooper Humperdink...? Not Him!Deep Cut85points
- HoopsDeep Cut85points
- Hooray for Diffendoofer Day!Deep Cut85points
- Hope for Each DayDeep Cut85points
- Hope to DieDeep Cut85points
- Hope Was HereDeep Cut85points
- HopelessDeep Cut85points
- HopscotchDeep Cut85points
- Hornet FlightDeep Cut85points
- Hornet's NestDeep Cut85points
- Horns to Toes and in BetweenDeep Cut85points
- Horrid HenryDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry and the Bogey BabysitterDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry and the Mummy's CurseDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry and the Secret ClubDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry Gets Rich QuickDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry Tricks the Tooth FairyDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry's Haunted HouseDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry's NitsDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry's RevengeDeep Cut85points
- Horrid Henry's StinkbombDeep Cut85points
- Horrors of the Black RingDeep Cut85points
- HorrorstorDeep Cut85points
- Horse Under WaterDeep Cut85points
- Horseman, Pass ByDeep Cut85points
- Horton and the Kwuggerbug and More Lost StoriesDeep 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.