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
- VineaDeep Cut85points
- Vinegar makingDeep Cut85points
- Viola da gambaDeep Cut85points
- Violin bow fibulaDeep Cut85points
- Vipanchi veenaDeep Cut85points
- Vira Nirvana SamvatDeep Cut85points
- VirginalsDeep Cut85points
- Visigothic scriptDeep Cut85points
- Visiting cardDeep Cut85points
- VisorDeep Cut85points
- VitisDeep Cut85points
- VivisectionDeep Cut85points
- Volta do marDeep Cut85points
- VoluteDeep Cut85points
- VolvelleDeep Cut85points
- VomitoriumDeep Cut85points
- Votive columnDeep Cut85points
- Votive crownDeep Cut85points
- Votive pinaxDeep Cut85points
- Votive tabletDeep Cut85points
- VoulgeDeep Cut85points
- VoussoirDeep Cut85points
- VulsellumDeep Cut85points
- Vulture crownDeep Cut85points
- Wadj amuletDeep Cut85points
- WadmalDeep Cut85points
- WadōkaichinDeep Cut85points
- Wagon (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- Wagon fortDeep Cut85points
- WagonwayDeep Cut85points
- WainscotDeep Cut85points
- Waisted axeDeep Cut85points
- WakaDeep Cut85points
- WakizashiDeep Cut85points
- Walk-in wellDeep Cut85points
- Wall plateDeep Cut85points
- WallpaperDeep Cut85points
- Walnut dyeDeep Cut85points
- WandDeep Cut85points
- WangjinDeep Cut85points
- WaniguchiDeep Cut85points
- WanqinDeep Cut85points
- WappenmünzenDeep Cut85points
- War canoeDeep Cut85points
- War maskDeep Cut85points
- War scytheDeep Cut85points
- War wagonDeep Cut85points
- WarabitetōDeep Cut85points
- Warded lockDeep Cut85points
- WarehouseDeep 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.