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
- BagpipesRare60points
- Balance scaleRare60points
- BalconyRare60points
- BallistaRare60points
- Bamboo-copterRare60points
- Bark canoeRare60points
- Bat (bat-and-ball)Rare60points
- BathhouseRare60points
- Battle axeRare60points
- BattlementsRare60points
- BeaconRare60points
- BeadRare60points
- Bearded axeRare60points
- BedRare60points
- Bed sheetRare60points
- BeehiveRare60points
- Bell towerRare60points
- BellowsRare60points
- BenchRare60points
- BikiniRare60points
- Birchbark canoeRare60points
- BlanketRare60points
- Blast furnaceRare60points
- BlinkersRare60points
- Block and tackleRare60points
- BloodlettingRare60points
- BlowgunRare60points
- Blue and white porcelainRare60points
- Body paintRare60points
- Body piercingRare60points
- BombRare60points
- Bone toolRare60points
- BonsaiRare60points
- BookcaseRare60points
- BookmarkRare60points
- BoomerangRare60points
- Bow drillRare60points
- Bowling alleyRare60points
- Bowling ballRare60points
- BraceletRare60points
- BraidingRare60points
- BrakeRare60points
- BrassRare60points
- Brazen bullRare60points
- BreastplateRare60points
- BrewingRare60points
- BridleRare60points
- BriningRare60points
- BroochRare60points
- BuckleRare60points
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.