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
- Snakes and laddersRare60points
- SnowshoesRare60points
- SpadeRare60points
- Spear-throwerRare60points
- SpindleRare60points
- SpinningRare60points
- Spinning topRare60points
- Spinning wheelRare60points
- Spoked wheelRare60points
- Stained glassRare60points
- Star chartRare60points
- SteamingRare60points
- Sternpost rudderRare60points
- StewingRare60points
- StiltsRare60points
- Stir fryingRare60points
- StirrupRare60points
- Stone circleRare60points
- StoolRare60points
- StoveRare60points
- StrainingRare60points
- StylusRare60points
- SunglassesRare60points
- SunscreenRare60points
- SurfboardRare60points
- Suspension bridgeRare60points
- SutureRare60points
- SwingRare60points
- SyringeRare60points
- TableRare60points
- TambourineRare60points
- TamponRare60points
- TankardRare60points
- TanningRare60points
- TapestryRare60points
- TarotRare60points
- TattooRare60points
- TeapotRare60points
- Teeth whiteningRare60points
- Terrace farmingRare60points
- TerracottaRare60points
- Thatched roofRare60points
- Therapeutic massageRare60points
- ThermaeRare60points
- ThimbleRare60points
- Three-field systemRare60points
- ThroneRare60points
- Tic-tac-toeRare60points
- Tie-dyeRare60points
- TipiRare60points
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.