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
- Updraft kilnDeep Cut85points
- Upturned eavesDeep Cut85points
- Upward-facing hemisphereDeep Cut85points
- UraeusDeep Cut85points
- UrinalDeep Cut85points
- Urine flaskDeep Cut85points
- UroscopyDeep Cut85points
- UruDeep Cut85points
- Usekh collarDeep Cut85points
- UshnuDeep Cut85points
- Uterine dilatorDeep Cut85points
- Uterine soundDeep Cut85points
- Utsava murtiDeep Cut85points
- UttariyaDeep Cut85points
- Uvula knifeDeep Cut85points
- UvulectomyDeep Cut85points
- VajraDeep Cut85points
- Vajra-mushtiDeep Cut85points
- VallusDeep Cut85points
- ValveDeep Cut85points
- VambraceDeep Cut85points
- Varix extractorDeep Cut85points
- VatDeep Cut85points
- Vaulting horseDeep Cut85points
- Vaulting shaftDeep Cut85points
- VectoriaDeep Cut85points
- VeenaDeep Cut85points
- VelariumDeep Cut85points
- VeneerDeep Cut85points
- Venetian maskDeep Cut85points
- Venus figurineDeep Cut85points
- Venus tableDeep Cut85points
- VerdaccioDeep Cut85points
- VerdigrisDeep Cut85points
- Verge escapementDeep Cut85points
- VermilionDeep Cut85points
- Vertical loomDeep Cut85points
- VerutumDeep Cut85points
- VeuglaireDeep Cut85points
- VexillumDeep Cut85points
- Via cavaDeep Cut85points
- Victory columnDeep Cut85points
- ViereckschanzeDeep Cut85points
- Vietnamese calendarDeep Cut85points
- ViharaDeep Cut85points
- VihuelaDeep Cut85points
- Viking sun compassDeep Cut85points
- Vikram SamvatDeep Cut85points
- VillaDeep Cut85points
- VimanaDeep 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.