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
- Dragon robeDeep Cut85points
- Dragon shipDeep Cut85points
- DrapiDeep Cut85points
- Draught poleDeep Cut85points
- Draw knifeDeep Cut85points
- Draw plateDeep Cut85points
- DrawbarDeep Cut85points
- Drawing compassDeep Cut85points
- DrawloomDeep Cut85points
- DrayDeep Cut85points
- Dream dictionaryDeep Cut85points
- Dreiling (coin)Deep Cut85points
- DresserDeep Cut85points
- Drinking hornDeep Cut85points
- Drive shaftDeep Cut85points
- DromonDeep Cut85points
- DromosDeep Cut85points
- Droop cupDeep Cut85points
- Drop shaftDeep Cut85points
- Dropping from heaven bombDeep Cut85points
- Drum (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Drum machineDeep Cut85points
- Dry dockDeep Cut85points
- Dry lacquerDeep Cut85points
- Dry packingDeep Cut85points
- Dry stone wallDeep Cut85points
- Dry wound healingDeep Cut85points
- DrypointDeep Cut85points
- Drypoint rulingDeep Cut85points
- Duckbill shoeDeep Cut85points
- DudukDeep Cut85points
- DuhoDeep Cut85points
- DuiDeep Cut85points
- Dulce melosDeep Cut85points
- DunDeep Cut85points
- DungeonDeep Cut85points
- Duodecim scriptaDeep Cut85points
- DupattaDeep Cut85points
- DupondiusDeep Cut85points
- DutarDeep Cut85points
- DwaleDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf galleryDeep Cut85points
- DzongDeep Cut85points
- E-GroupDeep Cut85points
- Ear daggerDeep Cut85points
- Ear pickDeep Cut85points
- Ear spoolDeep Cut85points
- Ear syringeDeep Cut85points
- Earth and timber castleDeep Cut85points
- Earth lodgeDeep 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.