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
- Wrapping paperDeep Cut85points
- Wrist claspDeep Cut85points
- Wrist guardDeep Cut85points
- Wu guanDeep Cut85points
- Wu ZhuDeep Cut85points
- WushamaoDeep Cut85points
- Xianbei hatDeep Cut85points
- XiangqiDeep Cut85points
- XiaoDeep Cut85points
- XicolliDeep Cut85points
- Xing wareDeep Cut85points
- XinyiDeep Cut85points
- XiphosDeep Cut85points
- XiqinDeep Cut85points
- XiuhhuitzolliDeep Cut85points
- XiuhpohualliDeep Cut85points
- XiuhtilmatliDeep Cut85points
- Xu (bronze vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Xuan paperDeep Cut85points
- XuanduanDeep Cut85points
- XunDeep Cut85points
- XylospongiumDeep Cut85points
- XylyphionDeep Cut85points
- XystisDeep Cut85points
- XystonDeep Cut85points
- XystusDeep Cut85points
- YacollaDeep Cut85points
- YaguraDeep Cut85points
- Yak (Korean flute)Deep Cut85points
- YakatabuneDeep Cut85points
- YangmaDeep Cut85points
- YantraDeep Cut85points
- YaodongDeep Cut85points
- YaoguDeep Cut85points
- Yaozhou wareDeep Cut85points
- Yard (sailing)Deep Cut85points
- Yard (unit)Deep Cut85points
- YariDeep Cut85points
- YarigannaDeep Cut85points
- Yarn reelDeep Cut85points
- YatateDeep Cut85points
- Yayoi potteryDeep Cut85points
- YazhengDeep Cut85points
- YesaDeep Cut85points
- Yetholm-type shieldDeep Cut85points
- YettDeep Cut85points
- Yi (ewer)Deep Cut85points
- Yi scriptDeep Cut85points
- Ying YuanDeep Cut85points
- YingluoDeep 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.