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
- Kaze Densetsu: Bukkomi no TakuDeep Cut85points
- Keep QuietDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost CitiesDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: EverblazeDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: ExileDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: FlashbackDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: LegacyDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: LodestarDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: NeverseenDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: NightfallDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: StellarluneDeep Cut85points
- Keeper of the Lost Cities: UnlockedDeep Cut85points
- Keeping 13Deep Cut85points
- Keeping FaithDeep Cut85points
- Keisuke Nobuyo no Omoshiro Sozai 170Deep Cut85points
- Kennedy (Sorensen)Deep Cut85points
- Kennedy's BrainDeep Cut85points
- Kensuke's KingdomDeep Cut85points
- Kent State: What Happened and WhyDeep Cut85points
- Kentucky HeatDeep Cut85points
- Kentucky RichDeep Cut85points
- Kentucky SunriseDeep Cut85points
- Key of KnowledgeDeep Cut85points
- Key of LightDeep Cut85points
- Key of ValorDeep Cut85points
- KidnappedDeep Cut85points
- Kids Say the Darndest Things!Deep Cut85points
- Kids Songs with Crazy SoundsDeep Cut85points
- Kikansha YaemonDeep Cut85points
- KilkennyDeep Cut85points
- Kill Alex CrossDeep Cut85points
- Kill JoyDeep Cut85points
- Kill ShotDeep Cut85points
- KillerDeep Cut85points
- Killers of the DawnDeep Cut85points
- Killing CommendatoreDeep Cut85points
- Killing Crazy HorseDeep Cut85points
- Killing EnglandDeep Cut85points
- Killing JesusDeep Cut85points
- Killing KennedyDeep Cut85points
- Killing LincolnDeep Cut85points
- Killing MoonDeep Cut85points
- Killing PattonDeep Cut85points
- Killing ReaganDeep Cut85points
- Killing the KillersDeep Cut85points
- Killing the LegendsDeep Cut85points
- Killing the MobDeep Cut85points
- Killing the Rising SunDeep Cut85points
- Killing the SSDeep Cut85points
- Killing the WitchesDeep 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.