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
- DiacodiumDeep Cut85points
- Diacritics (Arabic)Deep Cut85points
- DiademDeep Cut85points
- Diamond cuttingDeep Cut85points
- Diamond drillDeep Cut85points
- Diamond twillDeep Cut85points
- Diamond vaultDeep Cut85points
- Diaochan guanDeep Cut85points
- Diaphragm archDeep Cut85points
- DibaoDeep Cut85points
- Dice chessDeep Cut85points
- Dice cupDeep Cut85points
- Dice towerDeep Cut85points
- Dichroic glassDeep Cut85points
- Differential hardeningDeep Cut85points
- Digging stickDeep Cut85points
- DikkaDeep Cut85points
- Dilly bagDeep Cut85points
- DinarDeep Cut85points
- DinaraDeep Cut85points
- DingDeep Cut85points
- Ding wareDeep Cut85points
- DinosDeep Cut85points
- Diocletian windowDeep Cut85points
- DioptraDeep Cut85points
- Dip netDeep Cut85points
- DiphtheraDeep Cut85points
- DiplaxDeep Cut85points
- DiptychDeep Cut85points
- Dipylon shieldDeep Cut85points
- DirhamDeep Cut85points
- Discontinuous warp and weftDeep Cut85points
- DiscusDeep Cut85points
- DissectionDeep Cut85points
- DissectorDeep Cut85points
- DistaffDeep Cut85points
- Distemper (paint)Deep Cut85points
- Ditch-filling tortoiseDeep Cut85points
- Diversion damDeep Cut85points
- DividersDeep Cut85points
- Divination liver modelDeep Cut85points
- Divine arm bowDeep Cut85points
- Divine fire flying crowDeep Cut85points
- Diving gogglesDeep Cut85points
- Diving weightDeep Cut85points
- DiziDeep Cut85points
- Djed amuletDeep Cut85points
- DjembeDeep Cut85points
- Do-maruDeep Cut85points
- DoblaDeep 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.