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
- Yingzao Fashi modular systemDeep Cut85points
- Yogurt makingDeep Cut85points
- Yoke-back chairDeep Cut85points
- You (bronze vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Younger FutharkDeep Cut85points
- YoutingDeep Cut85points
- Yu (basin)Deep Cut85points
- Yu (mouth organ)Deep Cut85points
- Yu (tiger scraper)Deep Cut85points
- YuanlingshanDeep Cut85points
- Yue (axe)Deep Cut85points
- Yue (flute)Deep Cut85points
- Yue wareDeep Cut85points
- YueqinDeep Cut85points
- YugakeDeep Cut85points
- YugiDeep Cut85points
- Yuhuchun vaseDeep Cut85points
- YukatabiraDeep Cut85points
- YulohDeep Cut85points
- YumiDeep Cut85points
- Yunggimun potteryDeep Cut85points
- Yunjin brocadeDeep Cut85points
- YupanaDeep Cut85points
- Yurt wagonDeep Cut85points
- YutDeep Cut85points
- ZabraDeep Cut85points
- ZairjaDeep Cut85points
- Zaju chuishao fuDeep Cut85points
- ZakomaraDeep Cut85points
- Zapotec scriptDeep Cut85points
- Zaw (ship)Deep Cut85points
- Ze (headscarf)Deep Cut85points
- ZelligeDeep Cut85points
- Zenith tubeDeep Cut85points
- ZhaleikaDeep Cut85points
- Zhan chuanDeep Cut85points
- Zhang (jade)Deep Cut85points
- ZhanliDeep Cut85points
- ZhanmadaoDeep Cut85points
- Zhengfang'an (azimuth table)Deep Cut85points
- Zhi (bronze cup)Deep Cut85points
- ZhijuDeep Cut85points
- ZhisunDeep Cut85points
- Zhu (percussion)Deep Cut85points
- Zhu (zither)Deep Cut85points
- ZierscheibeDeep Cut85points
- ZiluDeep Cut85points
- Zinc oxide ointmentDeep Cut85points
- Zinc smeltingDeep Cut85points
- ZingelDeep 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.