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
- Warehouse receiptDeep Cut85points
- Warp beamDeep Cut85points
- Warp-weighted loomDeep Cut85points
- Warping millDeep Cut85points
- WashbasinDeep Cut85points
- Washing tableDeep Cut85points
- WasterDeep Cut85points
- Water castleDeep Cut85points
- Water dispenserDeep Cut85points
- Water dropperDeep Cut85points
- Water filterDeep Cut85points
- Water gateDeep Cut85points
- Water levelDeep Cut85points
- Water puppetDeep Cut85points
- Water table (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Water towerDeep Cut85points
- Water-powered armillary sphereDeep Cut85points
- Water-powered puppet theatreDeep Cut85points
- Water-powered spinning wheelDeep Cut85points
- WatermarkDeep Cut85points
- Watermelon bombDeep Cut85points
- WaterproofingDeep Cut85points
- WaterskinDeep Cut85points
- Watertight compartmentDeep Cut85points
- Wattle and daubDeep Cut85points
- Waubesa pointDeep Cut85points
- WayangDeep Cut85points
- Weaving combDeep Cut85points
- Weaving reedDeep Cut85points
- Weaving swordDeep Cut85points
- Wedge tombDeep Cut85points
- Wedjat amuletDeep Cut85points
- Weeding hookDeep Cut85points
- WeidlingDeep Cut85points
- WeimaoDeep Cut85points
- WeirDeep Cut85points
- Weld dyeDeep Cut85points
- Well bellowsDeep Cut85points
- Well houseDeep Cut85points
- Welsh hookDeep Cut85points
- WestworkDeep Cut85points
- Wet compassDeep Cut85points
- Whalebone houseDeep Cut85points
- WharfDeep Cut85points
- Wheel broochDeep Cut85points
- Wheel chandelierDeep Cut85points
- Wheeled toyDeep Cut85points
- WheelhouseDeep Cut85points
- WhippingDeep Cut85points
- WhippletreeDeep 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.