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
- Bizen wareDeep Cut85points
- Black and red wareDeep Cut85points
- Black potteryDeep Cut85points
- Black-burnished wareDeep Cut85points
- Black-figure potteryDeep Cut85points
- Black-glazed wareDeep Cut85points
- Black-topped red wareDeep Cut85points
- Blackjack (leather jug)Deep Cut85points
- BlackletterDeep Cut85points
- BlackworkDeep Cut85points
- Bladder pipeDeep Cut85points
- Bladder soundDeep Cut85points
- Blade millDeep Cut85points
- Blanca (coin)Deep Cut85points
- BlanchingDeep Cut85points
- BleachingDeep Cut85points
- Blessing crossDeep Cut85points
- BliautDeep Cut85points
- Blind arcadeDeep Cut85points
- Blind toolingDeep Cut85points
- BlisteringDeep Cut85points
- BloodletterDeep Cut85points
- BloomeryDeep Cut85points
- Blotting paperDeep Cut85points
- BlowpipeDeep Cut85points
- Blue vitriolDeep Cut85points
- Blue-painted potteryDeep Cut85points
- Blunt arrowDeep Cut85points
- Boar spearDeep Cut85points
- Boar's tusk helmetDeep Cut85points
- BoathouseDeep Cut85points
- Boatswain's callDeep Cut85points
- BobbinDeep Cut85points
- Bodkin pointDeep Cut85points
- Body oilDeep Cut85points
- Boeotian helmetDeep Cut85points
- Boeotian shieldDeep Cut85points
- BofuDeep Cut85points
- Bohemian earspoonDeep Cut85points
- Boiled leatherDeep Cut85points
- BoitaDeep Cut85points
- BojagiDeep Cut85points
- BolasDeep Cut85points
- Bole hillDeep Cut85points
- Bollock daggerDeep Cut85points
- BolsterDeep Cut85points
- BombardDeep Cut85points
- BombardeDeep Cut85points
- BondDeep Cut85points
- Bone armourDeep 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.