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
- BhasmaDeep Cut85points
- Bi (jade)Deep Cut85points
- Bian (iron whip)Deep Cut85points
- Bian jianDeep Cut85points
- BianfuDeep Cut85points
- BianqingDeep Cut85points
- BianzhongDeep Cut85points
- BicosDeep Cut85points
- BidensDeep Cut85points
- BidentDeep Cut85points
- BidriwareDeep Cut85points
- BijiaDeep Cut85points
- Bilge pumpDeep Cut85points
- BiliDeep Cut85points
- Bill (polearm)Deep Cut85points
- Bill of exchangeDeep Cut85points
- Bill of ladingDeep Cut85points
- BillhookDeep Cut85points
- Billiard tableDeep Cut85points
- BillonDeep Cut85points
- BindiDeep Cut85points
- BintieDeep Cut85points
- BinzasaraDeep Cut85points
- Biological pest controlDeep Cut85points
- Biological warfareDeep Cut85points
- BipaDeep Cut85points
- Birch bark containerDeep Cut85points
- Birch bark manuscriptDeep Cut85points
- Birch tarDeep Cut85points
- Birch-bark roofDeep Cut85points
- Bird dartDeep Cut85points
- Bird stoneDeep Cut85points
- Bird trapDeep Cut85points
- BirdlimeDeep Cut85points
- BiremeDeep Cut85points
- BirettaDeep Cut85points
- BirlinnDeep Cut85points
- BirrusDeep Cut85points
- Birth brickDeep Cut85points
- Birthing chairDeep Cut85points
- Birthing girdleDeep Cut85points
- BiselliumDeep Cut85points
- Bisque firingDeep Cut85points
- BistouryDeep Cut85points
- BistreDeep Cut85points
- Bit-hilaniDeep Cut85points
- Bitless bridleDeep Cut85points
- Bitumen mortarDeep Cut85points
- BiwaDeep Cut85points
- BixiDeep 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.