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
- ChofaDeep Cut85points
- Choir stallDeep Cut85points
- ChokutoDeep Cut85points
- CholiDeep Cut85points
- ChongtongDeep Cut85points
- ChopineDeep Cut85points
- ChopperDeep Cut85points
- ChorobatesDeep Cut85points
- ChoshiDeep Cut85points
- ChousDeep Cut85points
- Chowka bharaDeep Cut85points
- ChōzubachiDeep Cut85points
- Chrome steelDeep Cut85points
- ChryselephantineDeep Cut85points
- Chryselephantine sculptureDeep Cut85points
- Chu Dau wareDeep Cut85points
- Chu NomDeep Cut85points
- Chu shogiDeep Cut85points
- ChuiDeep Cut85points
- ChuiwanDeep Cut85points
- ChukDeep Cut85points
- ChukiDeep Cut85points
- ChullpaDeep Cut85points
- ChultunDeep Cut85points
- ChumpiDeep Cut85points
- Chun (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- ChunkeyDeep Cut85points
- ChunyuDeep Cut85points
- Church tabernacleDeep Cut85points
- ChuspaDeep Cut85points
- ChytraDeep Cut85points
- CiboriumDeep Cut85points
- Cider makingDeep Cut85points
- Cihua necuitlalpiloniDeep Cut85points
- Cingulum militareDeep Cut85points
- CinquedeaDeep Cut85points
- CioppaDeep Cut85points
- Cipher diskDeep Cut85points
- CippusDeep Cut85points
- Circle hookDeep Cut85points
- Circular enclosureDeep Cut85points
- CircumcisionDeep Cut85points
- Circumcision knifeDeep Cut85points
- CircumvallationDeep Cut85points
- CircusDeep Cut85points
- CisiumDeep Cut85points
- CistDeep Cut85points
- Cistercian numeralsDeep Cut85points
- CistophorusDeep Cut85points
- CitoleDeep 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.