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
- MaceRare60points
- MacrameRare60points
- Magnifying glassRare60points
- MalletRare60points
- MancalaRare60points
- MangonelRare60points
- ManuscriptRare60points
- MarblesRare60points
- MarinatingRare60points
- MarionetteRare60points
- MaskRare60points
- MastRare60points
- MatchesRare60points
- MattressRare60points
- MausoleumRare60points
- Measuring cupRare60points
- Mechanical clockRare60points
- MenorahRare60points
- Mesoamerican calendarRare60points
- MetalworkingRare60points
- MilkingRare60points
- MillingRare60points
- MinaretRare60points
- MincingRare60points
- MiningRare60points
- MittenRare60points
- MoaiRare60points
- MoccasinRare60points
- Moldboard plowRare60points
- Morning starRare60points
- Mortar and pestleRare60points
- MosaicRare60points
- Mosquito netRare60points
- MouthwashRare60points
- MudbrickRare60points
- Multiplication tableRare60points
- MummificationRare60points
- Musical notationRare60points
- Nail polishRare60points
- NapkinRare60points
- Nativity sceneRare60points
- NeedleRare60points
- NightgownRare60points
- NotebookRare60points
- NumeralsRare60points
- NutcrackerRare60points
- ObeliskRare60points
- ObservatoryRare60points
- OcarinaRare60points
- OrganRare60points
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.