Krillion Recorded answers
6,313 recorded answers
How to approach it
Reverse the usual move: instead of hunting for one item, generate a wide field of candidates quickly, then test each against the date. Choose a broad arena of old practical life — the household, the building site, the workshop, the battlefield, the sickroom — and jot down five or six concrete things from each, written with the precise term a specialist would use rather than the everyday word. Scrutiny comes next: does a written source place the thing before 1500, and is it an object, a technique or a system rather than a plant, a dish or a drink? Width first, judgement afterwards. Since the reveal rewards volume, keep extending the shortlist and note spelling variants of every entry, because a narrow technical label is often the form the list accepts.
Get a hint
Begin with the working capital of ordinary life in antiquity: the tools, containers, fastenings and structures people handled daily rather than the ceremonial pieces kept for the powerful.
A little more
Narrow next to problems that demanded a designed solution — keeping accounts, lifting water, marking the hour, landing a blow in combat, closing a wound — and ask whether a documented remedy predates 1500.
One step further
Finally, favour the specialist's label over the household word: a single implement, one named building element or a particular notation usually sits in reference works under a term nobody says aloud today.
Reveal answers 6,313
- Pythagorean cupOne in a Krillion100points
- 360-degree circleDeep Cut85points
- 60-minute hourDeep Cut85points
- 819-day countDeep Cut85points
- Ab anbarDeep Cut85points
- Ab urbe conditaDeep Cut85points
- Abacus (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- AbaptistaDeep Cut85points
- Abat-sonDeep Cut85points
- AbatisDeep Cut85points
- AbayaDeep Cut85points
- AbecedaryDeep Cut85points
- Abjad numeralsDeep Cut85points
- AblaqDeep Cut85points
- AbollaDeep Cut85points
- AbortifacientDeep Cut85points
- AbraderDeep Cut85points
- Abridged armillaDeep Cut85points
- AbutmentDeep Cut85points
- Accolade (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- AcequiaDeep Cut85points
- AcinacesDeep Cut85points
- Acoustic jarDeep Cut85points
- AcreDeep Cut85points
- AcrolithDeep Cut85points
- AcrostoliumDeep Cut85points
- AcroterionDeep Cut85points
- Acta DiurnaDeep Cut85points
- AcupressureDeep Cut85points
- Acupuncture bronze figureDeep Cut85points
- AdargaDeep Cut85points
- AditDeep Cut85points
- Adjustable mirrorDeep Cut85points
- AdufeDeep Cut85points
- AediculaDeep Cut85points
- Aegean numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Aeolic orderDeep Cut85points
- AerotononDeep Cut85points
- Aes graveDeep Cut85points
- Aes rudeDeep Cut85points
- Aes signatumDeep Cut85points
- African red slip wareDeep Cut85points
- Afro combDeep Cut85points
- AgadirDeep Cut85points
- AgatewareDeep Cut85points
- AggerDeep Cut85points
- AgletDeep Cut85points
- Agnel (coin)Deep Cut85points
- Agnus Dei (wax)Deep Cut85points
- Agricultural rollerDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat: a single recorded pick took the full hundred, while more than five thousand earned eighty-five and seven hundred more stopped at sixty. That shape points to a closed list graded by rarity rather than by correctness — nearly everything submitted was accepted and then levelled. The lone maximum went to Pythagorean cup, an ingenious contrivance few players would reach for. The eighty-five band is vast and reads like a catalogue of specialist vocabulary: Ab anbar, Abat-son, Abatis, Abjad numerals, Acinaces, Acoustic jar, Acta Diurna. Each is a real thing from before 1500, yet each sits inside a niche — water supply, architecture, fortification, notation, armament — so finding one depends on knowing that corner of the field, not on luck. The sixty-point tier, seven hundred strong, probably collects the more familiar choices that many players hit at once. The practical lesson: obvious picks keep you in the middle of the pack, and the extra points come from the technical term.