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
- NYPD Red 3Deep Cut85points
- NYPD Red 4Deep Cut85points
- NYPD Red 5Deep Cut85points
- NYPD Red 6Deep Cut85points
- NyxiaDeep Cut85points
- O Pioneers!Deep Cut85points
- O Terceiro TravesseiroDeep Cut85points
- O'Hara's ChoiceDeep Cut85points
- Oath of LoyaltyDeep Cut85points
- Oath of OfficeDeep Cut85points
- OathbringerDeep Cut85points
- Obake no Hanashi 1Deep Cut85points
- Obake no TempuraDeep Cut85points
- Obentō BasuDeep Cut85points
- OblomovDeep Cut85points
- ObsessedDeep Cut85points
- Obsession in DeathDeep Cut85points
- Octopussy and The Living DaylightsDeep Cut85points
- Odd ApocalypseDeep Cut85points
- Odd HoursDeep Cut85points
- Odd ThomasDeep Cut85points
- Odessa SeaDeep Cut85points
- Of Blood and BoneDeep Cut85points
- Of Human BondageDeep Cut85points
- Of Love and Other DemonsDeep Cut85points
- Of Love and ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Of Thee I SingDeep Cut85points
- Off-the-Wall Mad LibsDeep Cut85points
- Officer Buckle and GloriaDeep Cut85points
- Official Pokémon HandbookDeep Cut85points
- Ofuro DaisukiDeep Cut85points
- Ofuro de Chapu ChapuDeep Cut85points
- Oh My Goddess!Deep Cut85points
- Oh My Oh My Oh Dinosaurs!Deep Cut85points
- Oh Say Can You Say?Deep Cut85points
- Oh William!Deep Cut85points
- Oh, The Thinks You Can Think!Deep Cut85points
- Oi! RyomaDeep Cut85points
- OishinboDeep Cut85points
- Okay for NowDeep Cut85points
- Ōkii Ichinensei to Chiisana NinenseiDeep Cut85points
- Ōkina Ōkina OimoDeep Cut85points
- Old BonesDeep Cut85points
- Old Hat New HatDeep Cut85points
- Old Man's CaveDeep Cut85points
- Old Songs in a New CafeDeep Cut85points
- Old YellerDeep Cut85points
- Olive KitteridgeDeep Cut85points
- Olive, AgainDeep Cut85points
- Oliver's StoryDeep 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.