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
- Bow and arrowSchooler30points
- BowlSchooler30points
- BraSchooler30points
- BrickSchooler30points
- BridgeSchooler30points
- BronzeSchooler30points
- BroomSchooler30points
- BrushSchooler30points
- BucketSchooler30points
- ButtonSchooler30points
- CabinSchooler30points
- CalendarSchooler30points
- CanalSchooler30points
- CandleSchooler30points
- CandlestickSchooler30points
- CannonSchooler30points
- CanoeSchooler30points
- CarriageSchooler30points
- CartSchooler30points
- CastleSchooler30points
- CatapultSchooler30points
- CathedralSchooler30points
- CeilingSchooler30points
- CementSchooler30points
- ChainSchooler30points
- CharcoalSchooler30points
- ChariotSchooler30points
- ChessSchooler30points
- ChestSchooler30points
- ChimneySchooler30points
- ChopsticksSchooler30points
- ChurchSchooler30points
- ClepsydraSchooler30points
- ClockSchooler30points
- ClothingSchooler30points
- ClubSchooler30points
- CoatSchooler30points
- CodexSchooler30points
- CoffinSchooler30points
- CoinSchooler30points
- ConcreteSchooler30points
- CookingSchooler30points
- Cooking potSchooler30points
- CrossbowSchooler30points
- CupSchooler30points
- CutlerySchooler30points
- DaggerSchooler30points
- DamSchooler30points
- Defensive wallSchooler30points
- DiceSchooler30points
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.