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
- Lola in the MirrorDeep Cut85points
- Lola RoseDeep Cut85points
- Lon Po PoDeep Cut85points
- London BridgesDeep Cut85points
- London MatchDeep Cut85points
- Lone EagleDeep Cut85points
- Lone SurvivorDeep Cut85points
- Lone WolfDeep Cut85points
- Lonely Castle in the MirrorDeep Cut85points
- Lonely on the MountainDeep Cut85points
- Long Bright RiverDeep Cut85points
- Long IslandDeep Cut85points
- Long LostDeep Cut85points
- Long Road to MercyDeep Cut85points
- Long ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Long Way DownDeep Cut85points
- Look AgainDeep Cut85points
- Look Alive Twenty-FiveDeep Cut85points
- Look BackDeep Cut85points
- Look Both WaysDeep Cut85points
- Look for MeDeep Cut85points
- Look Great, Feel GreatDeep Cut85points
- Look Homeward, AngelDeep Cut85points
- Look Out, Secret SevenDeep Cut85points
- Look Who's BackDeep Cut85points
- Look Younger, Live LongerDeep Cut85points
- Looking for AlibrandiDeep Cut85points
- Looking for Mr. GoodbarDeep Cut85points
- Looking Out for #1Deep Cut85points
- Loon LakeDeep Cut85points
- Loose TailsDeep Cut85points
- Loose that Man and Let Him Go!Deep Cut85points
- Lord BrocktreeDeep Cut85points
- Lord Edgware DiesDeep Cut85points
- Lord JimDeep Cut85points
- Lord LossDeep Cut85points
- Lord of ChaosDeep Cut85points
- Lord of ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Lord of the ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Lord SundayDeep Cut85points
- Lord, I Want to Know YouDeep Cut85points
- Lord, Teach Me to Pray in 28 DaysDeep Cut85points
- Lords and LadiesDeep Cut85points
- Los cipreses creen en DiosDeep Cut85points
- Lose Weight for GoodDeep Cut85points
- LoserDeep Cut85points
- Losing HopeDeep Cut85points
- Lost and FoundDeep Cut85points
- Lost and Found (Oliver Jeffers)Deep Cut85points
- Lost CityDeep 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.