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
- Encaustic tileDeep Cut85points
- EnceinteDeep Cut85points
- Enclosed helmetDeep Cut85points
- Enclosure castleDeep Cut85points
- EncolpionDeep Cut85points
- EndromisDeep Cut85points
- EnemaDeep Cut85points
- Engaged columnDeep Cut85points
- EngawaDeep Cut85points
- Engraved gemDeep Cut85points
- EnneresDeep Cut85points
- EntablatureDeep Cut85points
- EntasisDeep Cut85points
- EoDeep Cut85points
- EpendytesDeep Cut85points
- EphaptisDeep Cut85points
- EphemerisDeep Cut85points
- EphodDeep Cut85points
- EpiblemaDeep Cut85points
- EpichysisDeep Cut85points
- Epicyclic gearingDeep Cut85points
- EpigonationDeep Cut85points
- EpigonionDeep Cut85points
- Epigraphic wareDeep Cut85points
- EpilorikionDeep Cut85points
- EpinetronDeep Cut85points
- EpitaphiosDeep Cut85points
- Eponym listDeep Cut85points
- Epsilon axeDeep Cut85points
- Equal-arm broochDeep Cut85points
- Equatorial ringDeep Cut85points
- EquatoriumDeep Cut85points
- Eri silkDeep Cut85points
- Ernestite drillDeep Cut85points
- EruptorDeep Cut85points
- EscapementDeep Cut85points
- EscoffionDeep Cut85points
- EspadrilleDeep Cut85points
- EspalierDeep Cut85points
- Essential oilDeep Cut85points
- EstocDeep Cut85points
- Etched carnelian beadsDeep Cut85points
- EtchingDeep Cut85points
- Ethiopian calendarDeep Cut85points
- Ethiopian crossDeep Cut85points
- Etruscan alphabetDeep Cut85points
- Etruscan numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Eulogia tokenDeep Cut85points
- EunbyeongDeep Cut85points
- EunjangdoDeep 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.