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
- AguayoDeep Cut85points
- Ahar-pyneDeep Cut85points
- AhlspiessDeep Cut85points
- Ahom scriptDeep Cut85points
- AhuDeep Cut85points
- AiletteDeep Cut85points
- Airtight food storageDeep Cut85points
- Aisled houseDeep Cut85points
- AjaengDeep Cut85points
- AkatosDeep Cut85points
- AkçeDeep Cut85points
- AklysDeep Cut85points
- AksuDeep Cut85points
- Aksumite currencyDeep Cut85points
- Ala bohemicaDeep Cut85points
- AlabastronDeep Cut85points
- Alaia boardDeep Cut85points
- Alapini vinaDeep Cut85points
- AlbDeep Cut85points
- AlbarelloDeep Cut85points
- Albarrana towerDeep Cut85points
- Alberti cipherDeep Cut85points
- AlbionDeep Cut85points
- AlbokaDeep Cut85points
- Album (Ancient Rome)Deep Cut85points
- AlbusDeep Cut85points
- Alcoholic fermentationDeep Cut85points
- Alea evangeliiDeep Cut85points
- Alemannic minusculeDeep Cut85points
- AlembicDeep Cut85points
- Aleppo soapDeep Cut85points
- AlfarjeDeep Cut85points
- AlfizDeep Cut85points
- AliaDeep Cut85points
- AlidadeDeep Cut85points
- AljamiadoDeep Cut85points
- Alkaline glazeDeep Cut85points
- Alligator drumDeep Cut85points
- AlmadrabaDeep Cut85points
- Almond milk productionDeep Cut85points
- Alms boxDeep Cut85points
- Almucantar quadrantDeep Cut85points
- Alphabetum KaldeorumDeep Cut85points
- AlquerqueDeep Cut85points
- AltaDeep Cut85points
- AltarDeep Cut85points
- Altar clothDeep Cut85points
- Altar stoneDeep Cut85points
- Alternating fields systemDeep Cut85points
- AludelDeep 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.