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
- Counting boardDeep Cut85points
- Counting rodsDeep Cut85points
- Courier chessDeep Cut85points
- Court cairnDeep Cut85points
- Courtyard houseDeep Cut85points
- CouscoussierDeep Cut85points
- CouterDeep Cut85points
- Coved ceilingDeep Cut85points
- Cover cropDeep Cut85points
- CowroidDeep Cut85points
- Crab claw sailDeep Cut85points
- Crackle glazeDeep Cut85points
- CradleboardDeep Cut85points
- Cramp ringDeep Cut85points
- CramponDeep Cut85points
- CranequinDeep Cut85points
- CranioclastDeep Cut85points
- CrankDeep Cut85points
- CrankshaftDeep Cut85points
- CrannogDeep Cut85points
- CrayerDeep Cut85points
- Credence tableDeep Cut85points
- CredenzaDeep Cut85points
- CrepidaDeep Cut85points
- Crescent-pommel swordDeep Cut85points
- CrespineDeep Cut85points
- CressetDeep Cut85points
- Creswell pointDeep Cut85points
- Cretan hieroglyphsDeep Cut85points
- Crewel embroideryDeep Cut85points
- CrinetDeep Cut85points
- CristalloDeep Cut85points
- CrocketDeep Cut85points
- Cropping shearsDeep Cut85points
- Cross-in-squareDeep Cut85points
- Cross-knit loopingDeep Cut85points
- Cross-peen hammerDeep Cut85points
- Cross-wallDeep Cut85points
- Cross-windowDeep Cut85points
- Cross-wingDeep Cut85points
- Crossbow fibulaDeep Cut85points
- Crossbow windlassDeep Cut85points
- Crossed-arch domeDeep Cut85points
- Crossing towerDeep Cut85points
- Crotal bellDeep Cut85points
- Crouching tiger cannonDeep Cut85points
- CroupiereDeep Cut85points
- Crow-stepped gableDeep Cut85points
- Crown gearDeep Cut85points
- Crown glassDeep 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.