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
- AlumDeep Cut85points
- AmadouDeep Cut85points
- AmalakaDeep Cut85points
- AmalgamDeep Cut85points
- AmalgamationDeep Cut85points
- AmateDeep Cut85points
- AmboDeep Cut85points
- AmbulacrumDeep Cut85points
- AmbulatoryDeep Cut85points
- AmentumDeep Cut85points
- AmiceDeep Cut85points
- AmpechoneDeep Cut85points
- AmpullaDeep Cut85points
- AmputationDeep Cut85points
- AmpyxDeep Cut85points
- Anagama kilnDeep Cut85points
- AnalemmaDeep Cut85points
- Anaphoric clockDeep Cut85points
- AnapiesmaDeep Cut85points
- Anasazi fluteDeep Cut85points
- AnathyrosisDeep Cut85points
- Anatolian hieroglyphsDeep Cut85points
- Anatolian rugDeep Cut85points
- Ancestral hallDeep Cut85points
- Ancestral Puebloan potteryDeep Cut85points
- Ancestral tabletDeep Cut85points
- Ancient Macedonian calendarDeep Cut85points
- Ancient North ArabianDeep Cut85points
- Ancient South Arabian scriptDeep Cut85points
- AndironDeep Cut85points
- AndronDeep Cut85points
- AnelaceDeep Cut85points
- Aneurysm needleDeep Cut85points
- AngariumDeep Cut85points
- Angbu ilguDeep Cut85points
- Angel (coin)Deep Cut85points
- AngklungDeep Cut85points
- Anglo-Saxon helmetDeep Cut85points
- Anglo-Saxon runesDeep Cut85points
- AngonDeep Cut85points
- Angular harpDeep Cut85points
- Animal poundDeep Cut85points
- AnkusDeep Cut85points
- AnnealingDeep Cut85points
- Anno DominiDeep Cut85points
- AnnuityDeep Cut85points
- Annular vaultDeep Cut85points
- AnnuletDeep Cut85points
- AnorakDeep Cut85points
- Ansate broochDeep 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.