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
- CarouselDeep Cut85points
- Carp's tongue swordDeep Cut85points
- Carpenter's braceDeep Cut85points
- Carpenter's squareDeep Cut85points
- CarpentumDeep Cut85points
- CarroballistaDeep Cut85points
- CarroccioDeep Cut85points
- CarrucaDeep Cut85points
- Carrying poleDeep Cut85points
- Cart shaftsDeep Cut85points
- CartibulumDeep Cut85points
- CartonnageDeep Cut85points
- CartoucheDeep Cut85points
- Carved lacquerDeep Cut85points
- Carved stone ballDeep Cut85points
- CarvelDeep Cut85points
- CaryatidDeep Cut85points
- Case hardeningDeep Cut85points
- Casein glueDeep Cut85points
- Casemate wallDeep Cut85points
- Casement windowDeep Cut85points
- Cash coinDeep Cut85points
- CashmereDeep Cut85points
- CassockDeep Cut85points
- CassoneDeep Cut85points
- Castellum aquaeDeep Cut85points
- CastingDeep Cut85points
- Castle clockDeep Cut85points
- Castor oil (medicinal)Deep Cut85points
- Catalan forgeDeep Cut85points
- Catalan vaultDeep Cut85points
- Cataphract armourDeep Cut85points
- Cataract needleDeep Cut85points
- Cataract surgeryDeep Cut85points
- Catch the hareDeep Cut85points
- CateiaDeep Cut85points
- CatgutDeep Cut85points
- CatheterDeep Cut85points
- Caucasian Albanian scriptDeep Cut85points
- CaudicariaDeep Cut85points
- Caul wrappingDeep Cut85points
- CaulkingDeep Cut85points
- CausewayDeep Cut85points
- Causewayed enclosureDeep Cut85points
- Caustic sodaDeep Cut85points
- CauteryDeep Cut85points
- Cave templeDeep Cut85points
- Cavetto corniceDeep Cut85points
- Cedar bark textileDeep Cut85points
- CeladonDeep 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.