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
- Flying buttressRare60points
- Folding chairRare60points
- Folding fanRare60points
- FomentationRare60points
- Food dryingRare60points
- Food preservationRare60points
- Foot (unit)Rare60points
- Football (ball)Rare60points
- FootstoolRare60points
- ForgeRare60points
- Fountain penRare60points
- FreezingRare60points
- FrescoRare60points
- Fur clothingRare60points
- FurnaceRare60points
- GalleyRare60points
- GallowsRare60points
- GardenRare60points
- Garden forkRare60points
- GargoyleRare60points
- GauntletRare60points
- Geographic coordinate systemRare60points
- GladiusRare60points
- GlassblowingRare60points
- GliderRare60points
- GlobeRare60points
- GlovesRare60points
- GoRare60points
- GobletRare60points
- Golf clubRare60points
- GondolaRare60points
- GongRare60points
- GownRare60points
- GranaryRare60points
- Grappling hookRare60points
- GraterRare60points
- GratingRare60points
- GravestoneRare60points
- Greek alphabetRare60points
- Greek fireRare60points
- GreenhouseRare60points
- Greeting cardRare60points
- GrillRare60points
- GrindstoneRare60points
- GuillotineRare60points
- GuitarRare60points
- GutterRare60points
- GuttingRare60points
- Hair dyeRare60points
- HairpinRare60points
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.