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
- Bone carvingDeep Cut85points
- Bone chiselDeep Cut85points
- Bone forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Bone leverDeep Cut85points
- Bone whiteDeep Cut85points
- Bones (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- BonesettingDeep Cut85points
- Bonnet (sail)Deep Cut85points
- BonshoDeep Cut85points
- Book claspDeep Cut85points
- Book satchelDeep Cut85points
- BookbindingDeep Cut85points
- BookplateDeep Cut85points
- Boom (sailing)Deep Cut85points
- BoqtaDeep Cut85points
- BoraxDeep Cut85points
- Borehole drillingDeep Cut85points
- BörkDeep Cut85points
- BosančicaDeep Cut85points
- Bossed gongDeep Cut85points
- BottomryDeep Cut85points
- Botus barbatusDeep Cut85points
- BotzinaDeep Cut85points
- BoubouDeep Cut85points
- BouleuterionDeep Cut85points
- Boundary stoneDeep Cut85points
- Bow (music)Deep Cut85points
- Bow sawDeep Cut85points
- Bowl-mouth gunDeep Cut85points
- Bowling greenDeep Cut85points
- BowspritDeep Cut85points
- BowstringDeep Cut85points
- BowtellDeep Cut85points
- Bowtie crampDeep Cut85points
- Box bedDeep Cut85points
- Box flue tileDeep Cut85points
- BracteateDeep Cut85points
- Brahmi numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Brahmi scriptDeep Cut85points
- BraiesDeep Cut85points
- BrailsDeep Cut85points
- Brain tanningDeep Cut85points
- BraisingDeep Cut85points
- Branding ironDeep Cut85points
- BrandubhDeep Cut85points
- BraquemardDeep Cut85points
- Brat (Irish cloak)Deep Cut85points
- BrattishingDeep Cut85points
- BrazierDeep Cut85points
- Brazilwood dyeDeep Cut85points
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.