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
- DayerehDeep Cut85points
- Dead reckoningDeep Cut85points
- Deadfall trapDeep Cut85points
- Death whistleDeep Cut85points
- Deben (unit)Deep Cut85points
- DebitteringDeep Cut85points
- Decade ringDeep Cut85points
- DecantingDeep Cut85points
- DecempedaDeep Cut85points
- DeceresDeep Cut85points
- Decimal fractionsDeep Cut85points
- Decimal pointDeep Cut85points
- Deck (ship)Deep Cut85points
- Declination tableDeep Cut85points
- DecoctionDeep Cut85points
- DecoyDeep Cut85points
- DeelDeep Cut85points
- Deer leapDeep Cut85points
- Deer stoneDeep Cut85points
- DehuskingDeep Cut85points
- Demolition craneDeep Cut85points
- DemoticDeep Cut85points
- DenariusDeep Cut85points
- DengaDeep Cut85points
- Dental amalgamDeep Cut85points
- Dental drillDeep Cut85points
- Dental fillingDeep Cut85points
- Dental implantDeep Cut85points
- Dental inlayDeep Cut85points
- Dental scalerDeep Cut85points
- Dental scalingDeep Cut85points
- Dental wireDeep Cut85points
- DenticulateDeep Cut85points
- DentiducumDeep Cut85points
- DentilDeep Cut85points
- Depas amphikypellonDeep Cut85points
- DepilatoryDeep Cut85points
- Depletion gildingDeep Cut85points
- DerrickDeep Cut85points
- DescensoryDeep Cut85points
- DeulaDeep Cut85points
- DevanagariDeep Cut85points
- DhenkiDeep Cut85points
- Dhives AkuruDeep Cut85points
- DhoniDeep Cut85points
- DhotiDeep Cut85points
- DhowDeep Cut85points
- DhvajaDeep Cut85points
- Di guanDeep Cut85points
- DiabathronDeep 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.