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
- LiraelDeep Cut85points
- Lisey's StoryDeep Cut85points
- Listen to MeDeep Cut85points
- Listen to My Trumpet!Deep Cut85points
- Listen to the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Listen to Your HeartDeep Cut85points
- Listen! The WindDeep Cut85points
- Little BearDeep Cut85points
- Little BeeDeep Cut85points
- Little Blue and Little YellowDeep Cut85points
- Little CloudDeep Cut85points
- Little Critter Joke BookDeep Cut85points
- Little DorritDeep Cut85points
- Little Fur FamilyDeep Cut85points
- Little House on Rocky RidgeDeep Cut85points
- Little Man, What Now?Deep Cut85points
- Little MenDeep Cut85points
- Little Miss Stoneybrook...and DawnDeep Cut85points
- Little Pilgrim's ProgressDeep Cut85points
- Little PookieDeep Cut85points
- Little Town on the PrairieDeep Cut85points
- Live Alone and Like ItDeep Cut85points
- Live by NightDeep Cut85points
- Live Free or DieDeep Cut85points
- Live to TellDeep Cut85points
- Live WireDeep Cut85points
- LividDeep Cut85points
- Living Beyond Your FeelingsDeep Cut85points
- Living By the BookDeep Cut85points
- Living Dead in DallasDeep Cut85points
- Living HistoryDeep Cut85points
- Living to Tell the TaleDeep Cut85points
- Living, Loving and LearningDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama and the Bully GoatDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama Gram and GrandpaDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama Holiday DramaDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama Home with MamaDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama I Love YouDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama Mad at MamaDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama Misses MamaDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama Nighty-NightDeep Cut85points
- Llama Llama Time to ShareDeep Cut85points
- LoamhedgeDeep Cut85points
- Lock and KeyDeep Cut85points
- Lock Every DoorDeep Cut85points
- LockdownDeep Cut85points
- Locked OnDeep Cut85points
- Lockwood & Co.: The Screaming StaircaseDeep Cut85points
- Logan Likes Mary Anne!Deep Cut85points
- Loitering with IntentDeep 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.