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
- HalberdRare60points
- HammockRare60points
- Hand axeRare60points
- Hand cannonRare60points
- Hand grenadeRare60points
- HandkerchiefRare60points
- HangulRare60points
- HarpRare60points
- HarpoonRare60points
- HarpsichordRare60points
- HarrowRare60points
- HatchetRare60points
- HearthRare60points
- Heavy ploughRare60points
- Hebrew alphabetRare60points
- HennaRare60points
- Herbal medicineRare60points
- High chairRare60points
- High-heeled shoeRare60points
- HijabRare60points
- HingeRare60points
- Hockey stickRare60points
- HoistRare60points
- HoopRare60points
- HopscotchRare60points
- Horned helmetRare60points
- Horse armourRare60points
- Horse bitRare60points
- Horse collarRare60points
- Horse harnessRare60points
- HorseshoeRare60points
- HullRare60points
- HypocaustRare60points
- Ice houseRare60points
- Ice skatesRare60points
- Illuminated manuscriptRare60points
- Imperial examinationRare60points
- IncenseRare60points
- Incense burnerRare60points
- Inclined planeRare60points
- Indigo dyeRare60points
- InkwellRare60points
- Insect repellentRare60points
- Invisible inkRare60points
- Ionic orderRare60points
- JacketRare60points
- Japanese armourRare60points
- JavelinRare60points
- Jew's harpRare60points
- JewelryRare60points
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.