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
- Earth ovenDeep Cut85points
- EarthworkDeep Cut85points
- EaselDeep Cut85points
- Eating knifeDeep Cut85points
- EavesDeep Cut85points
- EboshiDeep Cut85points
- Eccentric flintDeep Cut85points
- Ecclesiastical ringDeep Cut85points
- EchinusDeep Cut85points
- Echizen wareDeep Cut85points
- Eclipse tableDeep Cut85points
- EcrancheDeep Cut85points
- ÉcuDeep Cut85points
- Edge millDeep Cut85points
- Eel trapDeep Cut85points
- Effigy moundDeep Cut85points
- Egg washingDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian blueDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian calendarDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian greenDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian numeralsDeep Cut85points
- EhuatlDeep Cut85points
- Eka-tantri veenaDeep Cut85points
- EkkyklemaDeep Cut85points
- Ekphonetic notationDeep Cut85points
- Elamite cuneiformDeep Cut85points
- Electroless platingDeep Cut85points
- ElectrumDeep Cut85points
- ElectuaryDeep Cut85points
- Elephant armourDeep Cut85points
- Elephant towerDeep Cut85points
- Elevated entranceDeep Cut85points
- ElipaoDeep Cut85points
- ElixirDeep Cut85points
- EllDeep Cut85points
- Elymaic scriptDeep Cut85points
- ElymosDeep Cut85points
- EmaDeep Cut85points
- Embankment damDeep Cut85points
- EmbasDeep Cut85points
- EmblemaDeep Cut85points
- EmbrasureDeep Cut85points
- Embroidery frameDeep Cut85points
- EmbryotomyDeep Cut85points
- EmeticDeep Cut85points
- EmissariumDeep Cut85points
- EmulsifyingDeep Cut85points
- EnamelDeep Cut85points
- Enamelled glassDeep Cut85points
- Encaustic paintingDeep 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.