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
- Curtain archDeep Cut85points
- Curtain wallDeep Cut85points
- Curule chairDeep Cut85points
- Curved-shaft ploughDeep Cut85points
- Cut glassDeep Cut85points
- CutchDeep Cut85points
- CutwaterDeep Cut85points
- CybaeaDeep Cut85points
- Cycladic frying panDeep Cut85points
- CyclasDeep Cut85points
- Cyclopean masonryDeep Cut85points
- Cylinder glassDeep Cut85points
- CymatiumDeep Cut85points
- CymbaDeep Cut85points
- Cypriot syllabaryDeep Cut85points
- Cypro-Minoan syllabaryDeep Cut85points
- DabbabaDeep Cut85points
- Dado (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- DaegeumDeep Cut85points
- DaejaengDeep Cut85points
- DafDeep Cut85points
- Dagger-axeDeep Cut85points
- DahabeahDeep Cut85points
- Dai shogiDeep Cut85points
- DalcaDeep Cut85points
- DallyeongDeep Cut85points
- DalmaticDeep Cut85points
- Dalton pointDeep Cut85points
- DamaoDeep Cut85points
- DamaruDeep Cut85points
- DamasceningDeep Cut85points
- DamaskDeep Cut85points
- Daming calendarDeep Cut85points
- Damp-proof courseDeep Cut85points
- Dan dayDeep Cut85points
- DanakeDeep Cut85points
- Dane axeDeep Cut85points
- DangjeokDeep Cut85points
- DanskerDeep Cut85points
- DaoDeep Cut85points
- DaopaoDeep Cut85points
- DaphoDeep Cut85points
- DaricDeep Cut85points
- DarningDeep Cut85points
- DasapadaDeep Cut85points
- Daseian notationDeep Cut85points
- Dashan xiapeiDeep Cut85points
- Date palm pollinationDeep Cut85points
- DaxiushanDeep Cut85points
- Dayan calendarDeep 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.