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
- Coach (carriage)Rare60points
- Coat of armsRare60points
- CobblestoneRare60points
- Cold storageRare60points
- ColumnRare60points
- CombRare60points
- Combination lockRare60points
- Composite bowRare60points
- CondomRare60points
- CookbookRare60points
- Corinthian helmetRare60points
- Cork stopperRare60points
- CorsetRare60points
- CosmeticsRare60points
- Cotton clothRare60points
- CouchRare60points
- Covered bridgeRare60points
- Covered wagonRare60points
- CowbellRare60points
- CradleRare60points
- CraneRare60points
- CrayonRare60points
- Crop rotationRare60points
- Cross-stitchRare60points
- Crossbow boltRare60points
- Crosscut sawRare60points
- CrowbarRare60points
- CrownRare60points
- CrucibleRare60points
- CrucifixRare60points
- CrutchRare60points
- Crystal ballRare60points
- CuirassRare60points
- CuneiformRare60points
- CuringRare60points
- CursiveRare60points
- CurtainRare60points
- CushionRare60points
- Cutting boardRare60points
- Cylinder sealRare60points
- CymbalsRare60points
- Cyrillic alphabetRare60points
- Damascus steelRare60points
- DartRare60points
- Death maskRare60points
- DeboningRare60points
- Decimal systemRare60points
- Deep fryingRare60points
- DenturesRare60points
- DeodorantRare60points
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.