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
- Crown postDeep Cut85points
- CrozierDeep Cut85points
- Crucible steelDeep Cut85points
- Cruciform broochDeep Cut85points
- Cruciform planDeep Cut85points
- Cruck frameDeep Cut85points
- CruetDeep Cut85points
- CrumhornDeep Cut85points
- CrupperDeep Cut85points
- CruzadoDeep Cut85points
- CrwthDeep Cut85points
- CryptDeep Cut85points
- CryptoporticusDeep Cut85points
- CrystallizationDeep Cut85points
- CuacalalatliDeep Cut85points
- CuauhxicalliDeep Cut85points
- Cubit rodDeep Cut85points
- Cucking stoolDeep Cut85points
- CucullusDeep Cut85points
- CucurbitDeep Cut85points
- CudonDeep Cut85points
- CueitlDeep Cut85points
- Cuerda secaDeep Cut85points
- Cuir de CordoueDeep Cut85points
- CuisseDeep Cut85points
- CuletDeep Cut85points
- Cultured pearlDeep Cut85points
- CulverinDeep Cut85points
- CulvertDeep Cut85points
- Cumberland pointDeep Cut85points
- CumbiDeep Cut85points
- CuniculusDeep Cut85points
- CupboardDeep Cut85points
- CupelDeep Cut85points
- CupellationDeep Cut85points
- Cupola furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Cupping glassDeep Cut85points
- CupronickelDeep Cut85points
- Cups and ballsDeep Cut85points
- CupstoneDeep Cut85points
- CurbDeep Cut85points
- Curb bitDeep Cut85points
- Curd stretchingDeep Cut85points
- CurdlingDeep Cut85points
- CuretteDeep Cut85points
- CurrachDeep Cut85points
- Currency barDeep Cut85points
- Curse tabletDeep Cut85points
- Cursive script (East Asia)Deep Cut85points
- CursusDeep 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.