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Recreation & Games: Amazon KDP category data
Amazon Kindle eBooks Best Sellers data for Recreation & Games, updated Nov 3, 2026: median price $9.97, median 32 reviews, average rating 4.3 and a KDPTop opportunity score of 23/100 (highly competitive).
| Price range (middle 50%) | $3.99 – $11.99 |
|---|---|
| Average rating | 4.3 |
| New releases (90 days) | 12% |
| Books on the list | 100 |
| Store | Kindle eBooks |
What stands out
- Its median reviews are 11% of the parent category Mathematics (286), one of the easier corners under it.
- Prices spread wide: the middle half runs from $3.99 to $11.99, so budget editions and premium or boxed sets sell side by side.
Top 10 Recreation & Games best sellers
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The Ultimate Logic Grid Puzzle Book for Adults: 100 Fun Deductive Challenges (Kindle Scribe Only) (Logic Puzzles - The Ultimate Collection 1)
by Unicorn Books
- List rank#1
- Price$9.99
- Rating4.6
- Reviews450
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The Magic of Math: Solving for x and Figuring Out Why
- List rank#2
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews397
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Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of Uncertainty
by Ian Stewart
- List rank#3
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews111
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Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
by Ian Stewart
- List rank#4
- Price$1.99
- Rating4.2
- Reviews172
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The Original Area Mazes: 100 Addictive Puzzles to Solve with Simple Math—and Clever Logic!
by Naoki Inaba
- List rank#5
- Price$6.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews470
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Unraveling Topological Crochet (AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series)
by Shiying Dong
- List rank#6
- Price$30.39
- Rating5.0
- Reviews4
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My Best Mathematical and Logic Puzzles (Dover Math Games & Puzzles)
by Martin Gardner
- List rank#7
- Price$4.58
- Rating4.3
- Reviews1,091
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Chess: 5334 Problems, Combinations and Games
by László Polgár
- List rank#8
- Price$19.99
- Rating4.7
- Reviews1,951
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
by E. Cheng
- List rank#9
- Price$12.99
- Rating4.3
- Reviews322
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World of Sudoku: A step-by-step guide to solving Sudoku and Killer Sudoku as well as other puzzles, with over 190 individual diagrams
by John Austin
- List rank#10
- Price$2.99
- Rating4.5
- Reviews2
FAQ
Is Recreation & Games a good niche for Amazon KDP?
Its KDPTop opportunity score is 23/100, which makes it highly competitive. The median best seller has 32 reviews and sells for $9.97.
How many reviews do you need to rank in Recreation & Games?
The median best seller has 32 reviews, and 72% of them have fewer than 100.
What do Recreation & Games best sellers cost?
The median price is $9.97; half of the best sellers are priced between $3.99 and $11.99.
Can new books break into Recreation & Games?
12% of the current best sellers were released in the last 90 days.
About this data
Data comes from KDPTop's daily crawl of Amazon's public Best Sellers pages; medians use the latest list. The opportunity score (0–100, higher is easier to enter) combines the review barrier, the share of low-review books, list turnover, new-release share and price.