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
- ZłotyDeep Cut85points
- Znamenny notationDeep Cut85points
- Zonal mapDeep Cut85points
- ZōriDeep Cut85points
- Zoroastrian calendarDeep Cut85points
- ZougeDeep Cut85points
- Zu (offering table)Deep Cut85points
- ZucchettoDeep Cut85points
- ZummaraDeep Cut85points
- Zun (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Zuo chuanDeep Cut85points
- Zuraqi astrolabeDeep Cut85points
- ZuzDeep Cut85points
- ZvonnitsaDeep Cut85points
- ZwingerDeep Cut85points
- 24-hour dayRare60points
- AcupunctureRare60points
- Adhesive bandageRare60points
- AdzeRare60points
- AeolipileRare60points
- Alarm clockRare60points
- AlmanacRare60points
- AmbulanceRare60points
- AmphitheatreRare60points
- AmphoraRare60points
- AmuletRare60points
- AnchorRare60points
- AnesthesiaRare60points
- AnkletRare60points
- Antikythera mechanismRare60points
- AnvilRare60points
- ApronRare60points
- Arabic alphabetRare60points
- Arabic numeralsRare60points
- ArchRare60points
- Arch bridgeRare60points
- Archimedes' screwRare60points
- Armillary sphereRare60points
- ArquebusRare60points
- ArrowheadRare60points
- Artificial eyeRare60points
- ArtilleryRare60points
- AstrolabeRare60points
- Astronomical clockRare60points
- AugerRare60points
- Automatic doorRare60points
- AutomatonRare60points
- AwlRare60points
- Baby bottleRare60points
- BackgammonRare60points
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.