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
- Calendar of saintsDeep Cut85points
- Calendar RoundDeep Cut85points
- Calibrated orificeDeep Cut85points
- CalicoDeep Cut85points
- CaligaeDeep Cut85points
- CalipersDeep Cut85points
- Caltrop fire ballDeep Cut85points
- CalvaryDeep Cut85points
- Calyx kraterDeep Cut85points
- CamDeep Cut85points
- CamaraDeep Cut85points
- Camber beamDeep Cut85points
- CameDeep Cut85points
- Camel hair clothDeep Cut85points
- Camel saddleDeep Cut85points
- Cameo (carving)Deep Cut85points
- Cameo glassDeep Cut85points
- CamletDeep Cut85points
- Campana reliefDeep Cut85points
- Camphor sublimationDeep Cut85points
- CamshaftDeep Cut85points
- Canaanean bladeDeep Cut85points
- Canaanite jarDeep Cut85points
- CandelabrumDeep Cut85points
- Candi bentarDeep Cut85points
- Candle snufferDeep Cut85points
- CandyingDeep Cut85points
- CangueDeep Cut85points
- CannulaDeep Cut85points
- Canoe bailerDeep Cut85points
- CantileverDeep Cut85points
- Cantilever bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Cap-houseDeep Cut85points
- CaparisonDeep Cut85points
- Capital (column)Deep Cut85points
- Cappadocian calendarDeep Cut85points
- CapsaDeep Cut85points
- CapstanDeep Cut85points
- CarabusDeep Cut85points
- Caracalla (garment)Deep Cut85points
- CaratDeep Cut85points
- CaravanseraiDeep Cut85points
- CarbatinaDeep Cut85points
- CarceresDeep Cut85points
- CarchesiumDeep Cut85points
- Carding bowDeep Cut85points
- CareeningDeep Cut85points
- Carian alphabetDeep Cut85points
- CarnyxDeep Cut85points
- Carolingian minusculeDeep 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.