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
- LeggingsSchooler30points
- LeverSchooler30points
- LidSchooler30points
- Lock and keySchooler30points
- MapSchooler30points
- MillSchooler30points
- MirrorSchooler30points
- MoatSchooler30points
- MopSchooler30points
- MosqueSchooler30points
- Movable typeSchooler30points
- Musical instrumentSchooler30points
- NailSchooler30points
- NecklaceSchooler30points
- OarSchooler30points
- Oil lampSchooler30points
- PaddleSchooler30points
- PaintSchooler30points
- PaintbrushSchooler30points
- PalaceSchooler30points
- PanSchooler30points
- Paper moneySchooler30points
- PapyrusSchooler30points
- PerfumeSchooler30points
- PipeSchooler30points
- PlateSchooler30points
- Playing cardsSchooler30points
- PlowSchooler30points
- PlumbingSchooler30points
- PotterySchooler30points
- Printed bookSchooler30points
- PrintingSchooler30points
- PulleySchooler30points
- PumpSchooler30points
- PurseSchooler30points
- PyramidSchooler30points
- QuillSchooler30points
- RaftSchooler30points
- RingSchooler30points
- RoadSchooler30points
- RoastingSchooler30points
- RoofSchooler30points
- RopeSchooler30points
- RubberSchooler30points
- RulerSchooler30points
- SailSchooler30points
- SailboatSchooler30points
- SandpaperSchooler30points
- ScissorsSchooler30points
- ScrewSchooler30points
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.