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
- I Survived the Attacks of September 11, 2001Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Battle of D-Day, 1944Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Battle of Gettysburg, 1863Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Children's Blizzard, 1888Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Destruction of Pompeii, AD 79Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Great Chicago Fire, 1871Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Great Molasses Flood, 1919Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Japanese Tsunami, 2011Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Joplin Tornado, 2011Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Shark Attacks of 1916Deep Cut85points
- I Survived the Sinking of the Titanic, 1912Deep Cut85points
- I Too Had a Love StoryDeep Cut85points
- I Totally FunniestDeep Cut85points
- I Want to Eat Your PancreasDeep Cut85points
- I Was HereDeep Cut85points
- I Was So MadDeep Cut85points
- I Who Have Never Known MenDeep Cut85points
- I Will Always Love YouDeep Cut85points
- I Will Always Write BackDeep Cut85points
- I Will Find YouDeep Cut85points
- I Will Surprise My Friend!Deep Cut85points
- I Will Take a Nap!Deep Cut85points
- I Wish That I Had Duck FeetDeep Cut85points
- I, Alex CrossDeep Cut85points
- I, ClaudiusDeep Cut85points
- I, Michael BennettDeep Cut85points
- I, the JuryDeep Cut85points
- I'll Always Love YouDeep Cut85points
- I'll Be Gone in the DarkDeep Cut85points
- I'll Be Seeing YouDeep Cut85points
- I'll Cry TomorrowDeep Cut85points
- I'll Give You the SunDeep Cut85points
- I'll Take ManhattanDeep Cut85points
- I'll Walk AloneDeep Cut85points
- I'm a Frog!Deep Cut85points
- I'm No AngelDeep Cut85points
- I'm Not Anti-Business, I'm Anti-IdiotDeep Cut85points
- I'm Not ScaredDeep Cut85points
- I'm Off ThenDeep Cut85points
- I'm OK – You're OKDeep Cut85points
- I'm Too Fond of My Fur!Deep Cut85points
- I've Got My Eyes on YouDeep Cut85points
- I've Got You Under My SkinDeep Cut85points
- I"sDeep Cut85points
- Iacocca (Iacocca)Deep Cut85points
- IberiaDeep Cut85points
- Ice ColdDeep Cut85points
- Ice HuntDeep 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.