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
- TrilithonDeep Cut85points
- TriompheDeep Cut85points
- Trip hammerDeep Cut85points
- Triple pipesDeep Cut85points
- Triple-disc cuirassDeep Cut85points
- TripodDeep Cut85points
- TriptychDeep Cut85points
- TriquetrumDeep Cut85points
- TrisectorDeep Cut85points
- TrispastosDeep Cut85points
- TrivetDeep Cut85points
- TroccoleDeep Cut85points
- Tromba marinaDeep Cut85points
- Tron (weighing beam)Deep Cut85points
- Troop transportDeep Cut85points
- TropaeumDeep Cut85points
- Troy weightDeep Cut85points
- TrumeauDeep Cut85points
- Trumpet broochDeep Cut85points
- Trundle bedDeep Cut85points
- TrunnionDeep Cut85points
- TrussDeep Cut85points
- TrussingDeep Cut85points
- TsubaDeep Cut85points
- Tsuri-daikoDeep Cut85points
- TsurugiDeep Cut85points
- TsuzumiDeep Cut85points
- TubDeep Cut85points
- Tuba (Roman trumpet)Deep Cut85points
- Tube drawingDeep Cut85points
- Tube zitherDeep Cut85points
- Tube-drawn glass beadsDeep Cut85points
- Tubi fittiliDeep Cut85points
- TüchleinDeep Cut85points
- Tug (horse-tail standard)Deep Cut85points
- TughraDeep Cut85points
- TuhoDeep Cut85points
- Tula adzeDeep Cut85points
- TulouDeep Cut85points
- TumbagaDeep Cut85points
- Tumble polishingDeep Cut85points
- Tumbler lockDeep Cut85points
- TumbrelDeep Cut85points
- TumiDeep Cut85points
- Tumor removalDeep Cut85points
- TumplineDeep Cut85points
- Tung oilDeep Cut85points
- Tung oil puttyDeep Cut85points
- TungsoDeep Cut85points
- TunicleDeep 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.