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
- Mike Mulligan and His Steam ShovelDeep Cut85points
- Mike's MysteryDeep Cut85points
- Miki's First ErrandDeep Cut85points
- Mila 18Deep Cut85points
- Mile HighDeep Cut85points
- Miles Morales: Spider-ManDeep Cut85points
- Miles to GoDeep Cut85points
- MilkmanDeep Cut85points
- MilkweedDeep Cut85points
- Millicent and the WindDeep Cut85points
- Millie Marotta's Animal KingdomDeep Cut85points
- Millie's BookDeep Cut85points
- Million-Dollar ThrowDeep Cut85points
- MillionsDeep Cut85points
- Millions of CatsDeep Cut85points
- Mind GamesDeep Cut85points
- Mind Over MoodDeep Cut85points
- MindhunterDeep Cut85points
- Minding FrankieDeep Cut85points
- Minecraft: BlockopediaDeep Cut85points
- Minecraft: Combat HandbookDeep Cut85points
- Minecraft: Construction HandbookDeep Cut85points
- Minecraft: Essential HandbookDeep Cut85points
- Minecraft: Redstone HandbookDeep Cut85points
- Minecraft: The IslandDeep Cut85points
- Minidicionário Ediouro da Língua PortuguesaDeep Cut85points
- Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauriDeep Cut85points
- Mio, My SonDeep Cut85points
- MiracleDeep Cut85points
- Miracle CreekDeep Cut85points
- Miracle in SevilleDeep Cut85points
- Miracle on the 17th GreenDeep Cut85points
- MirageDeep Cut85points
- Mirror Image (Danielle Steel)Deep Cut85points
- Mirror Image (Sandra Brown)Deep Cut85points
- Miss AmericaDeep Cut85points
- Miss Daisy Is Crazy!Deep Cut85points
- Miss Kay's Duck Commander KitchenDeep Cut85points
- Miss Lazar Is Bizarre!Deep Cut85points
- Miss Nelson Has a Field DayDeep Cut85points
- Miss Nelson Is BackDeep Cut85points
- Miss Nelson Is MissingDeep Cut85points
- Miss RumphiusDeep Cut85points
- Miss Small Is off the Wall!Deep Cut85points
- Missing MayDeep Cut85points
- Missing YouDeep Cut85points
- Mission to MoscowDeep Cut85points
- MissoulaDeep Cut85points
- Mister DogDeep Cut85points
- Mister MondayDeep 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.