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
- CoifDeep Cut85points
- Coil potteryDeep Cut85points
- Coin dieDeep Cut85points
- CokeDeep Cut85points
- Colchicum remedyDeep Cut85points
- Cold chiselDeep Cut85points
- Cold creamDeep Cut85points
- Cold frameDeep Cut85points
- Cold workingDeep Cut85points
- Coligny calendarDeep Cut85points
- Collar beamDeep Cut85points
- CollyriumDeep Cut85points
- Collyrium stampDeep Cut85points
- ColonnadeDeep Cut85points
- Colonnaded streetDeep Cut85points
- ColonnetteDeep Cut85points
- Color printingDeep Cut85points
- ColumbariumDeep Cut85points
- Column kraterDeep Cut85points
- ComalDeep Cut85points
- Communion spoonDeep Cut85points
- Companion plantingDeep Cut85points
- Compartmented water wheelDeep Cut85points
- Compass roseDeep Cut85points
- Compass sundialDeep Cut85points
- Compendium instrumentDeep Cut85points
- Composing stickDeep Cut85points
- Composite orderDeep Cut85points
- Compound archDeep Cut85points
- Compound crankDeep Cut85points
- Compound pierDeep Cut85points
- ComputusDeep Cut85points
- Concentric castleDeep Cut85points
- Conch trumpetDeep Cut85points
- ConcordanceDeep Cut85points
- CondyDeep Cut85points
- Cone mosaicDeep Cut85points
- Cong (jade)Deep Cut85points
- Conical hatDeep Cut85points
- Conical helmetDeep Cut85points
- Conical roofDeep Cut85points
- Conical valveDeep Cut85points
- Connecting rodDeep Cut85points
- Containing archDeep Cut85points
- Contour canalDeep Cut85points
- Contraceptive pessaryDeep Cut85points
- ContractDeep Cut85points
- ContravallationDeep Cut85points
- Convex mirrorDeep Cut85points
- CoolamonDeep 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.