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
- Nontan Howa Howa HowawaDeep Cut85points
- Nontan no TanjōbiDeep Cut85points
- Nontan OneshodeshonDeep Cut85points
- Nontan Oshikko ShīshīDeep Cut85points
- Nontan Oyasumi NasaiDeep Cut85points
- Nontan Oyogu no DaisukiDeep Cut85points
- Nontan! Santa Claus da yoDeep Cut85points
- Nonviolent CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Nora, NoraDeep Cut85points
- Norman the DoormanDeep Cut85points
- Norse MythologyDeep Cut85points
- North and SouthDeep Cut85points
- North to the OrientDeep Cut85points
- Northanger AbbeyDeep Cut85points
- Northwest PassageDeep Cut85points
- Nosete NoseteDeep Cut85points
- NostromoDeep Cut85points
- Not a FanDeep Cut85points
- Not a Happy FamilyDeep Cut85points
- Not a Penny More, Not a Penny LessDeep Cut85points
- Not as a StrangerDeep Cut85points
- Not in LoveDeep Cut85points
- Not My DaughterDeep Cut85points
- Not My WillDeep Cut85points
- Not Now, BernardDeep Cut85points
- Not Without My DaughterDeep Cut85points
- Notes from a Big CountryDeep Cut85points
- Notes from a Small IslandDeep Cut85points
- Notes of a Native SonDeep Cut85points
- Notes on a Nervous PlanetDeep Cut85points
- Notes on a ScandalDeep Cut85points
- Nothing but the TruthDeep Cut85points
- Nothing Can Keep Us TogetherDeep Cut85points
- Nothing Lasts ForeverDeep Cut85points
- Nothing Like the MoviesDeep Cut85points
- Nothing to LoseDeep Cut85points
- Nothing VenturedDeep Cut85points
- Notorious NineteenDeep Cut85points
- Noughts & CrossesDeep Cut85points
- November 9Deep Cut85points
- Now and ForeverDeep Cut85points
- Now or NeverDeep Cut85points
- Now We Are SixDeep Cut85points
- Now You See HerDeep Cut85points
- Numero ZeroDeep Cut85points
- Nura: Rise of the Yokai ClanDeep Cut85points
- Nurse NancyDeep Cut85points
- NutukDeep Cut85points
- NYPD RedDeep Cut85points
- NYPD Red 2Deep 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.