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
- WhiskRare60points
- WhiskingRare60points
- WhistleRare60points
- WigRare60points
- WigwamRare60points
- Wind chimeRare60points
- WindcatcherRare60points
- Window glassRare60points
- WinemakingRare60points
- WineryRare60points
- WokRare60points
- Woodblock printingRare60points
- WoodworkingRare60points
- WoolRare60points
- WrenchRare60points
- Writing slateRare60points
- Wrought ironRare60points
- YakhchālRare60points
- YarnRare60points
- Yo-yoRare60points
- YokeRare60points
- YurtRare60points
- ZigguratRare60points
- ZitherRare60points
- ZodiacRare60points
- AbacusSchooler30points
- AlphabetSchooler30points
- AqueductSchooler30points
- ArmorSchooler30points
- ArrowSchooler30points
- AxeSchooler30points
- AxleSchooler30points
- BackpackSchooler30points
- BagSchooler30points
- BakingSchooler30points
- BallSchooler30points
- BandageSchooler30points
- BarnSchooler30points
- BarrelSchooler30points
- BasketSchooler30points
- BathroomSchooler30points
- BathtubSchooler30points
- Battering ramSchooler30points
- BellSchooler30points
- BeltSchooler30points
- Board gameSchooler30points
- BoatSchooler30points
- BoilingSchooler30points
- BootsSchooler30points
- BottleSchooler30points
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.