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
- Jewelry boxRare60points
- Julian calendarRare60points
- Junk (ship)Rare60points
- KatanaRare60points
- KeelRare60points
- KennelRare60points
- KettledrumRare60points
- KeystoneRare60points
- KhopeshRare60points
- KilnRare60points
- KimonoRare60points
- KippahRare60points
- KneadingRare60points
- KnittingRare60points
- Knitting needleRare60points
- KohlRare60points
- LabyrinthRare60points
- LaceRare60points
- LacquerRare60points
- LadderRare60points
- LadleRare60points
- LanceRare60points
- Land mineRare60points
- LanternRare60points
- LassoRare60points
- Lateen sailRare60points
- LatheRare60points
- Latin alphabetRare60points
- Laurel wreathRare60points
- Leap yearRare60points
- LeashRare60points
- LeaveningRare60points
- Leech therapyRare60points
- LensRare60points
- LetterRare60points
- LighthouseRare60points
- Lime kilnRare60points
- Linear perspectiveRare60points
- LinenRare60points
- LipstickRare60points
- Log cabinRare60points
- LoinclothRare60points
- LongbowRare60points
- LongshipRare60points
- LongswordRare60points
- LoomRare60points
- LotteryRare60points
- Lunar calendarRare60points
- LuteRare60points
- LyreRare60points
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.