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
- Journey to CubevilleDeep Cut85points
- Journey to the End of the NightDeep Cut85points
- Journey Under the Midnight SunDeep Cut85points
- JoylandDeep Cut85points
- Jubal SackettDeep Cut85points
- Jude the ObscureDeep Cut85points
- Judge & JuryDeep Cut85points
- Judgment in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Judy MoodyDeep Cut85points
- Jūippiki no Neko to AhōdoriDeep Cut85points
- JuliaDeep Cut85points
- Julius, the Baby of the WorldDeep Cut85points
- July's PeopleDeep Cut85points
- JumanjiDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones and a Little Monkey BusinessDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones and Her Big Fat MouthDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones and Some Sneaky Peeky SpyingDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones and That Meanie Jim's BirthdayDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones and the Mushy Gushy ValentimeDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones and the Yucky Blucky FruitcakeDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Has a Monster Under Her BedDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Has a Peep in Her PocketDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Is (Almost) a Flower GirlDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Is a Beauty Shop GuyDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Is a Graduation GirlDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Is a Party AnimalDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Is Captain Field DayDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Is Not a CrookDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Loves Handsome WarrenDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones Smells Something FishyDeep Cut85points
- Junie B. Jones: Turkeys We Have Loved and Eaten (and Other Thankful Stuff)Deep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader (at last!)Deep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: Aloha-ha-ha!Deep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: BOO...and I MEAN It!Deep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: Boss of LunchDeep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: Cheater PantsDeep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: Dumb BunnyDeep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: Jingle Bells, Batman Smells! (P.S. So Does May.)Deep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: One-Man BandDeep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: ShipwreckedDeep Cut85points
- Junie B., First Grader: Toothless WonderDeep Cut85points
- JunkDeep Cut85points
- Just a DaydreamDeep Cut85points
- Just a DreamDeep Cut85points
- Just a MessDeep Cut85points
- Just a Snowy DayDeep Cut85points
- Just After SunsetDeep Cut85points
- Just as Long as We're TogetherDeep Cut85points
- Just BecauseDeep Cut85points
- Just Camping OutDeep 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.