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
- WhipstaffDeep Cut85points
- Whirlwind bindingDeep Cut85points
- Whirlwind trebuchetDeep Cut85points
- Whistling arrowDeep Cut85points
- Whistling vesselDeep Cut85points
- WickDeep Cut85points
- WickerworkDeep Cut85points
- Wicket gateDeep Cut85points
- WickiupDeep Cut85points
- WillDeep Cut85points
- Willow bark remedyDeep Cut85points
- WimpergDeep Cut85points
- WimpleDeep Cut85points
- WinchDeep Cut85points
- Wind braceDeep Cut85points
- Wind furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Wind-and-dust bombDeep Cut85points
- Wind-piercing shipDeep Cut85points
- WindbreakDeep Cut85points
- WindlassDeep Cut85points
- Windmill sailDeep Cut85points
- Window shutterDeep Cut85points
- WindowsillDeep Cut85points
- WindpumpDeep Cut85points
- Wine agingDeep Cut85points
- Wine pressDeep Cut85points
- Wine server automatonDeep Cut85points
- Wing broochDeep Cut85points
- Wing wallDeep Cut85points
- Winged spearDeep Cut85points
- Winged tridentDeep Cut85points
- WinnowingDeep Cut85points
- Winnowing fanDeep Cut85points
- Winnowing forkDeep Cut85points
- Wire drawingDeep Cut85points
- Wire millDeep Cut85points
- WittenDeep Cut85points
- Woad dyeingDeep Cut85points
- Woad millDeep Cut85points
- Wolf-teeth beating boardDeep Cut85points
- WolfsangelDeep Cut85points
- WolgeumDeep Cut85points
- Wool cardsDeep Cut85points
- Wootz steelDeep Cut85points
- Word spacingDeep Cut85points
- WorkbenchDeep Cut85points
- Worm gearDeep Cut85points
- WorstedDeep Cut85points
- Woven timber arch bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Wrapped-back bindingDeep 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.