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
- MerrickDeep Cut85points
- Merry and BrightDeep Cut85points
- Merry Christmas, Alex CrossDeep Cut85points
- Merry Christmas, Amelia BedeliaDeep Cut85points
- Merry Christmas, Mom and DadDeep Cut85points
- Message from MalagaDeep Cut85points
- Message from NamDeep Cut85points
- Message in a BottleDeep Cut85points
- MetaphysicsDeep Cut85points
- Metro 2033Deep Cut85points
- Metro GirlDeep Cut85points
- MexicoDeep Cut85points
- Mexico SetDeep Cut85points
- Michael O'HalloranDeep Cut85points
- Michael StrogoffDeep Cut85points
- Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25Deep Cut85points
- Michelin GuideDeep Cut85points
- Michi o HirakuDeep Cut85points
- MicroDeep Cut85points
- Middle of the NightDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: Born to RockDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: Dog's Best FriendDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: Escape to AustraliaDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: Field Trip FiascoDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: From Hero to ZeroDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: Get Me Out of Here!Deep Cut85points
- Middle School: How I Survived Bullies, Broccoli, and Snake HillDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: It's a Zoo in Here!Deep Cut85points
- Middle School: Just My Rotten LuckDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: Master of DisasterDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: My Brother Is a Big, Fat LiarDeep Cut85points
- Middle School: Save Rafe!Deep Cut85points
- Middle School: Ultimate ShowdownDeep Cut85points
- MiddlemarchDeep Cut85points
- MiddlesexDeep Cut85points
- MidnightDeep Cut85points
- Midnight (Jacqueline Wilson)Deep Cut85points
- Midnight BayouDeep Cut85points
- Midnight for Charlie BoneDeep Cut85points
- Midnight in the Garden of Good and EvilDeep Cut85points
- Midnight on the MoonDeep Cut85points
- Midnight Sun (Jo Nesbø)Deep Cut85points
- Midnight WhispersDeep Cut85points
- Midori no MakibaōDeep Cut85points
- MidwivesDeep Cut85points
- Miffy at the SeasideDeep Cut85points
- Miffy at the ZooDeep Cut85points
- Miffy in the SnowDeep Cut85points
- Mightier than the SwordDeep Cut85points
- MigrationsDeep 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.