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
- Celestial globeDeep Cut85points
- Celestial navigationDeep Cut85points
- CellaDeep Cut85points
- CeloxDeep Cut85points
- Cementation copperDeep Cut85points
- Cementation processDeep Cut85points
- CenotaphDeep Cut85points
- CentenionalisDeep Cut85points
- CenteringDeep Cut85points
- CenturiationDeep Cut85points
- CeolDeep Cut85points
- CerationDeep Cut85points
- CertosinaDeep Cut85points
- CeruseDeep Cut85points
- CervelliereDeep Cut85points
- CesspitDeep Cut85points
- CestusDeep Cut85points
- CetbangDeep Cut85points
- ChacmoolDeep Cut85points
- ChadorDeep Cut85points
- Chafing dishDeep Cut85points
- ChahartaqDeep Cut85points
- Chain bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Chain driveDeep Cut85points
- Chain pumpDeep Cut85points
- Chain stitchDeep Cut85points
- Chained bookDeep Cut85points
- ChaireDeep Cut85points
- ChaityaDeep Cut85points
- ChakitaqllaDeep Cut85points
- ChakramDeep Cut85points
- Chalcidian helmetDeep Cut85points
- Chalcidianising cupDeep Cut85points
- ChaliceDeep Cut85points
- Chalk lineDeep Cut85points
- ChalkotononDeep Cut85points
- Cham calendarDeep Cut85points
- Cham scriptDeep Cut85points
- Chamber gateDeep Cut85points
- Chamber tombDeep Cut85points
- ChamfronDeep Cut85points
- ChamplevéDeep Cut85points
- ChancelDeep Cut85points
- ChandrashalaDeep Cut85points
- Chang (harp)Deep Cut85points
- ChaofuDeep Cut85points
- ChaperonDeep Cut85points
- Chapter houseDeep Cut85points
- CharbaghDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal kilnDeep 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.