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
- OrigamiRare60points
- Orthodontic deviceRare60points
- Outrigger canoeRare60points
- OvenRare60points
- PadlockRare60points
- PagodaRare60points
- PalanquinRare60points
- PalisadeRare60points
- PamphletRare60points
- PanpipesRare60points
- Paper lanternRare60points
- Papier-macheRare60points
- ParchmentRare60points
- ParkaRare60points
- PassportRare60points
- Pasta makingRare60points
- PastelRare60points
- PasteurizationRare60points
- PatchworkRare60points
- PavilionRare60points
- PeelingRare60points
- PendantRare60points
- PennyRare60points
- Persian carpetRare60points
- Phoenician alphabetRare60points
- PickaxeRare60points
- PicklingRare60points
- Pigeon postRare60points
- Piggy bankRare60points
- PikeRare60points
- PillRare60points
- PillowRare60points
- PilumRare60points
- PinRare60points
- PiñataRare60points
- PincushionRare60points
- PitchforkRare60points
- PlasterRare60points
- Plate armourRare60points
- PliersRare60points
- PocketRare60points
- PocketknifeRare60points
- Pointed archRare60points
- Poison arrowRare60points
- Polished stone axeRare60points
- PomadeRare60points
- PonchoRare60points
- Pontoon bridgeRare60points
- PorcelainRare60points
- PortcullisRare60points
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.