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
- DockDeep Cut85points
- DoguDeep Cut85points
- DolabraDeep Cut85points
- DoliumDeep Cut85points
- DolmenDeep Cut85points
- DoloireDeep Cut85points
- Dolphin (naval weapon)Deep Cut85points
- Domical vaultDeep Cut85points
- Dong Son drumDeep Cut85points
- Dongpo jinDeep Cut85points
- Door knockerDeep Cut85points
- DordDeep Cut85points
- Doric orderDeep Cut85points
- DormerDeep Cut85points
- Dory (spear)Deep Cut85points
- DosseretDeep Cut85points
- DotakuDeep Cut85points
- Dotted iDeep Cut85points
- DouDeep Cut85points
- Double adzeDeep Cut85points
- Double bellDeep Cut85points
- Double boilingDeep Cut85points
- Double clarinetDeep Cut85points
- Double clothDeep Cut85points
- Double domeDeep Cut85points
- Double fluteDeep Cut85points
- Double heddle loomDeep Cut85points
- Double pipesDeep Cut85points
- Double recorderDeep Cut85points
- Double slipwayDeep Cut85points
- Double-bay systemDeep Cut85points
- Double-concentric siphonDeep Cut85points
- Double-hulled canoeDeep Cut85points
- Double-seat valveDeep Cut85points
- Double-shell domeDeep Cut85points
- DoubletDeep Cut85points
- DoubletsDeep Cut85points
- DoucaiDeep Cut85points
- DouçaineDeep Cut85points
- Dough rollingDeep Cut85points
- DougongDeep Cut85points
- DoujianDeep Cut85points
- DoukatopoulonDeep Cut85points
- DovecoteDeep Cut85points
- Dovetail clampDeep Cut85points
- Dovetail jointDeep Cut85points
- DowelDeep Cut85points
- DrachmaDeep Cut85points
- Draco (dragon standard)Deep Cut85points
- Dragon kilnDeep 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.