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
- Feather headdressDeep Cut85points
- FeatherworkDeep Cut85points
- Fede ringDeep Cut85points
- Feldspathic glazeDeep Cut85points
- FeltDeep Cut85points
- Felting bowDeep Cut85points
- FeretoryDeep Cut85points
- Fermentation jarDeep Cut85points
- FerronnièreDeep Cut85points
- FibulaDeep Cut85points
- FidchellDeep Cut85points
- Field systemDeep Cut85points
- FifeDeep Cut85points
- Fighting platformDeep Cut85points
- Fighting ringDeep Cut85points
- Fighting topDeep Cut85points
- Figure-of-eight shieldDeep Cut85points
- FigureheadDeep Cut85points
- FigurineDeep Cut85points
- Filet laceDeep Cut85points
- FiligreeDeep Cut85points
- FilterDeep Cut85points
- Fine Orange wareDeep Cut85points
- Finery forgeDeep Cut85points
- Finger countingDeep Cut85points
- Finger cymbalsDeep Cut85points
- Finger tabDeep Cut85points
- Fingerhole hornDeep Cut85points
- Fingerloop braidDeep Cut85points
- Fingerprint signatureDeep Cut85points
- FinialDeep Cut85points
- FiningDeep Cut85points
- Fire altarDeep Cut85points
- Fire ballDeep Cut85points
- Fire brick (bomb)Deep Cut85points
- Fire carrierDeep Cut85points
- Fire crowDeep Cut85points
- Fire hardeningDeep Cut85points
- Fire hookDeep Cut85points
- Fire lance shieldDeep Cut85points
- Fire pistonDeep Cut85points
- Fire ploughDeep Cut85points
- Fire pokerDeep Cut85points
- Fire sawDeep Cut85points
- Fire screenDeep Cut85points
- Fire shipDeep Cut85points
- Fire templeDeep Cut85points
- Fire thongDeep Cut85points
- Fire-gildingDeep Cut85points
- Fire-settingDeep 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.