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
- Coolus helmetDeep Cut85points
- CopeDeep Cut85points
- CopingDeep Cut85points
- Copper plate inscriptionDeep Cut85points
- Copper red glazeDeep Cut85points
- Copper resinateDeep Cut85points
- CoppicingDeep Cut85points
- Coptic alphabetDeep Cut85points
- Coptic calendarDeep Cut85points
- Coptic numeralsDeep Cut85points
- CoracleDeep Cut85points
- Coral stone masonryDeep Cut85points
- CorbelDeep Cut85points
- Corbel archDeep Cut85points
- Corbel arch bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Corbelled tombDeep Cut85points
- CorbitaDeep Cut85points
- Cord and plaque armourDeep Cut85points
- Corduroy roadDeep Cut85points
- Core drillDeep Cut85points
- Core-and-veneerDeep Cut85points
- Core-formed glassDeep Cut85points
- CorfDeep Cut85points
- Corinthian bronzeDeep Cut85points
- Corinthian orderDeep Cut85points
- Corn-drying kilnDeep Cut85points
- CornadoDeep Cut85points
- Corned gunpowderDeep Cut85points
- CornerstoneDeep Cut85points
- CornettDeep Cut85points
- CorniceDeep Cut85points
- Cornish hedgeDeep Cut85points
- CornuDeep Cut85points
- Corona civicaDeep Cut85points
- Corona muralisDeep Cut85points
- Corona radiataDeep Cut85points
- CoronetDeep Cut85points
- CorvusDeep Cut85points
- Corvus (crow bill)Deep Cut85points
- CosmatesqueDeep Cut85points
- Cosmetic paletteDeep Cut85points
- Cosmetic spoonDeep Cut85points
- CostrelDeep Cut85points
- CotehardieDeep Cut85points
- CothonDeep Cut85points
- CothurnusDeep Cut85points
- CouillardDeep Cut85points
- CountermineDeep Cut85points
- CounterscarpDeep Cut85points
- Counterweight trebuchetDeep 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.