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
- DollSchooler30points
- DoorSchooler30points
- DrainSchooler30points
- DressSchooler30points
- Drinking glassSchooler30points
- DrumSchooler30points
- DyeSchooler30points
- EyeglassesSchooler30points
- FanSchooler30points
- FenceSchooler30points
- FireplaceSchooler30points
- FireworksSchooler30points
- Fishing rodSchooler30points
- FlagSchooler30points
- FloorSchooler30points
- FluteSchooler30points
- ForkSchooler30points
- FortSchooler30points
- FountainSchooler30points
- FryingSchooler30points
- Frying panSchooler30points
- FunnelSchooler30points
- GateSchooler30points
- GearSchooler30points
- GlassSchooler30points
- GlueSchooler30points
- GrillingSchooler30points
- GunSchooler30points
- HammerSchooler30points
- HarbourSchooler30points
- HatSchooler30points
- HelmetSchooler30points
- HieroglyphicsSchooler30points
- HoeSchooler30points
- HookSchooler30points
- HornSchooler30points
- HourglassSchooler30points
- HouseSchooler30points
- HutSchooler30points
- IglooSchooler30points
- InkSchooler30points
- IronSchooler30points
- IrrigationSchooler30points
- JarSchooler30points
- KayakSchooler30points
- KiteSchooler30points
- KnifeSchooler30points
- KnotSchooler30points
- LatchSchooler30points
- LeatherSchooler30points
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.