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
- Maximum Ride: FangDeep Cut85points
- Maximum Ride: Saving the World and Other Extreme SportsDeep Cut85points
- Maximum Ride: School's Out—ForeverDeep Cut85points
- Maximum Ride: The Final WarningDeep Cut85points
- May This House Be Safe from TigersDeep Cut85points
- Maya's NotebookDeep Cut85points
- Maybe in Another LifeDeep Cut85points
- Maybe NowDeep Cut85points
- Maybe You Should Fly a Jet! Maybe You Should Be a Vet!Deep Cut85points
- Mazinger ZDeep Cut85points
- McElligot's PoolDeep Cut85points
- McKettricks of Texas: TateDeep Cut85points
- Me Too!Deep Cut85points
- Me: Stories of My LifeDeep Cut85points
- Mean StreakDeep Cut85points
- Measuring the WorldDeep Cut85points
- Medium RawDeep Cut85points
- MedusaDeep Cut85points
- Meet AddyDeep Cut85points
- Meet Babar and His FamilyDeep Cut85points
- Meet KirstenDeep Cut85points
- Meet MollyDeep Cut85points
- Meet SamanthaDeep Cut85points
- Meet the AustinsDeep Cut85points
- MegDeep Cut85points
- MegamonsterDeep Cut85points
- Megan's MateDeep Cut85points
- MegatrendsDeep Cut85points
- Melania (Trump)Deep Cut85points
- MelodyDeep Cut85points
- Memed, My HawkDeep Cut85points
- Memnoch the DevilDeep Cut85points
- Memoirs of a Peasant BoyDeep Cut85points
- Memoirs of HadrianDeep Cut85points
- Memorial DayDeep Cut85points
- Memories of Another DayDeep Cut85points
- Memories of IceDeep Cut85points
- Memories of MidnightDeep Cut85points
- Memories of My Melancholy WhoresDeep Cut85points
- Memory in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Memory in the FleshDeep Cut85points
- Memory ManDeep Cut85points
- Men at ArmsDeep Cut85points
- Men of MenDeep Cut85points
- Men Who Hate Women and the Women Who Love ThemDeep Cut85points
- Men Without WomenDeep Cut85points
- Merci Suárez Changes GearsDeep Cut85points
- MercyDeep Cut85points
- Mercy Watson to the RescueDeep Cut85points
- MeridianDeep 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.