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
- Moon TigerDeep Cut85points
- MoonglowDeep Cut85points
- Moonlight Becomes YouDeep Cut85points
- Moonlight MileDeep Cut85points
- Moonlight on the Magic FluteDeep Cut85points
- MoonwalkDeep Cut85points
- Moosewood CookbookDeep Cut85points
- More Happy Than NotDeep Cut85points
- More Joy of SexDeep Cut85points
- More PeanutsDeep Cut85points
- More Scary Stories to Tell in the DarkDeep Cut85points
- More Than A CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- More Than EnoughDeep Cut85points
- More-with-Less CookbookDeep Cut85points
- Moreta: Dragonlady of PernDeep Cut85points
- Morgan's PassingDeep Cut85points
- Morgan's RunDeep Cut85points
- Morning Glory Milking FarmDeep Cut85points
- Morning StarDeep Cut85points
- Morning, Noon and NightDeep Cut85points
- Morrigan's CrossDeep Cut85points
- MortDeep Cut85points
- Mortadelo y FilemónDeep Cut85points
- MortimerDeep Cut85points
- Moscow RulesDeep Cut85points
- Moshi Moshi OdenwaDeep Cut85points
- MoshidoraDeep Cut85points
- MossflowerDeep Cut85points
- MossyDeep Cut85points
- Most WantedDeep Cut85points
- Mostly HarmlessDeep Cut85points
- Moth Flight's VisionDeep Cut85points
- Mother NightDeep Cut85points
- Mother of PearlDeep Cut85points
- Mother TongueDeep Cut85points
- Motherhood: The Second Oldest ProfessionDeep Cut85points
- Motor MouthDeep Cut85points
- Mount DragonDeep Cut85points
- Mountain Top MysteryDeep Cut85points
- Mountains Beyond MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Mouse SoupDeep Cut85points
- Mouse TalesDeep Cut85points
- Moving OnDeep Cut85points
- Moving PicturesDeep Cut85points
- Mr StinkDeep Cut85points
- Mr. AdamDeep Cut85points
- Mr. and Miss AnonymousDeep Cut85points
- Mr. Boston Official Bartender's GuideDeep Cut85points
- Mr. Britling Sees It ThroughDeep Cut85points
- Mr. Brown Can Moo! Can You?Deep 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.