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
- EuthynteriaDeep Cut85points
- EuthytononDeep Cut85points
- EwerDeep Cut85points
- ExagiumDeep Cut85points
- ExcelenteDeep Cut85points
- Excerebration hookDeep Cut85points
- Exclamation markDeep Cut85points
- ExedraDeep Cut85points
- ExomisDeep Cut85points
- ExostraDeep Cut85points
- Exploding shellDeep Cut85points
- Eyebrow pigmentDeep Cut85points
- EzorDeep Cut85points
- Face mask (armour)Deep Cut85points
- Facial maskDeep Cut85points
- FaeringDeep Cut85points
- FahuaDeep Cut85points
- FaienceDeep Cut85points
- Fail-safe systemDeep Cut85points
- Fakkham scriptDeep Cut85points
- FalaricaDeep Cut85points
- FalcataDeep Cut85points
- FalchionDeep Cut85points
- FalconetDeep Cut85points
- Falconry block perchDeep Cut85points
- Falconry gloveDeep Cut85points
- Falconry hoodDeep Cut85points
- Falconry lureDeep Cut85points
- FaldstoolDeep Cut85points
- FallowDeep Cut85points
- FalsDeep Cut85points
- False beardDeep Cut85points
- False doorDeep Cut85points
- FalxDeep Cut85points
- Falx navalisDeep Cut85points
- Fan vaultDeep Cut85points
- FanamDeep Cut85points
- Fangtian jiDeep Cut85points
- FangxiangDeep Cut85points
- FangyiDeep Cut85points
- FarthingDeep Cut85points
- FarthingaleDeep Cut85points
- FascesDeep Cut85points
- FascinusDeep Cut85points
- FastiDeep Cut85points
- FaucesDeep Cut85points
- FauchardDeep Cut85points
- FauldDeep Cut85points
- FaylesDeep Cut85points
- Feather bedDeep 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.