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
- BuncheongDeep Cut85points
- BuqDeep Cut85points
- BurdeiDeep Cut85points
- BurelDeep Cut85points
- BurgusDeep Cut85points
- BurhDeep Cut85points
- Burial moundDeep Cut85points
- Burial preservationDeep Cut85points
- BurinDeep Cut85points
- Burmese calendarDeep Cut85points
- Burmese numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Burmese scriptDeep Cut85points
- Burning glassDeep Cut85points
- Burning mirrorDeep Cut85points
- BurnishingDeep Cut85points
- Burnishing stoneDeep Cut85points
- BurnousDeep Cut85points
- Bust (sculpture)Deep Cut85points
- ButsudanDeep Cut85points
- Butter clarificationDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly bindingDeep Cut85points
- ButtressDeep Cut85points
- Buttress damDeep Cut85points
- BuyaoDeep Cut85points
- BuziDeep Cut85points
- Byblos shipDeep Cut85points
- Byblos syllabaryDeep Cut85points
- BycocketDeep Cut85points
- ByrdingDeep Cut85points
- ByreDeep Cut85points
- Byzantine calendarDeep Cut85points
- Byzantine chessDeep Cut85points
- Byzantine lyraDeep Cut85points
- Cadastral mapDeep Cut85points
- CadastreDeep Cut85points
- CadgeDeep Cut85points
- CaduceusDeep Cut85points
- Caesar cipherDeep Cut85points
- CaetraDeep Cut85points
- Cage cupDeep Cut85points
- Cage trapDeep Cut85points
- Cai-fen systemDeep Cut85points
- CaihuaDeep Cut85points
- CairnDeep Cut85points
- CaissonDeep Cut85points
- Caisson ceilingDeep Cut85points
- Calamine lotionDeep Cut85points
- CalceusDeep Cut85points
- CalcinationDeep Cut85points
- CaldariumDeep 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.