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
- BrazingDeep Cut85points
- BreakwaterDeep Cut85points
- Breast-strap harnessDeep Cut85points
- Breastshot water wheelDeep Cut85points
- Breech-loading swivel gunDeep Cut85points
- BressummerDeep Cut85points
- BretècheDeep Cut85points
- BreviaryDeep Cut85points
- Brick bondDeep Cut85points
- Brick mouldDeep Cut85points
- Brick stampDeep Cut85points
- BricoleDeep Cut85points
- Bridal crownDeep Cut85points
- Bridge millDeep Cut85points
- Bridge pierDeep Cut85points
- Bridge towerDeep Cut85points
- Bridge-damDeep Cut85points
- BrigandineDeep Cut85points
- BrigantineDeep Cut85points
- Brine wellDeep Cut85points
- Broach spireDeep Cut85points
- BroadaxeDeep Cut85points
- BroadclothDeep Cut85points
- BroadheadDeep Cut85points
- BroadloomDeep Cut85points
- BroadsideDeep Cut85points
- BrocadeDeep Cut85points
- BrochDeep Cut85points
- Bronze cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Bronze inscriptionDeep Cut85points
- Bronze ritual vesselDeep Cut85points
- Brush restDeep Cut85points
- Brush washerDeep Cut85points
- BuccheroDeep Cut85points
- BuccinaDeep Cut85points
- Bucket chainDeep Cut85points
- BucklerDeep Cut85points
- BuckramDeep Cut85points
- BucraniumDeep Cut85points
- Buddhist calendarDeep Cut85points
- Bugaku maskDeep Cut85points
- BugiaDeep Cut85points
- BuisineDeep Cut85points
- Bulb bowlDeep Cut85points
- Bulgar calendarDeep Cut85points
- Bull capitalDeep Cut85points
- BullaDeep Cut85points
- Bulla (seal)Deep Cut85points
- BullroarerDeep Cut85points
- BumpaDeep Cut85points
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.