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
- Fire-stick farmingDeep Cut85points
- FireproofingDeep Cut85points
- Fish gorgeDeep Cut85points
- Fish plateDeep Cut85points
- Fish poisonDeep Cut85points
- Fish pondDeep Cut85points
- Fish trapDeep Cut85points
- Fish weirDeep Cut85points
- Fishing basketDeep Cut85points
- Fishing floatDeep Cut85points
- Fishing lureDeep Cut85points
- Fistula (liturgical)Deep Cut85points
- Fistula knifeDeep Cut85points
- Fistula surgeryDeep Cut85points
- FitchetDeep Cut85points
- FlagonDeep Cut85points
- FlagstoneDeep Cut85points
- Flail (threshing)Deep Cut85points
- FlanchardDeep Cut85points
- Flanged axeDeep Cut85points
- Flanged maceDeep Cut85points
- Flanking towerDeep Cut85points
- Flash lockDeep Cut85points
- Flash panDeep Cut85points
- FlaskDeep Cut85points
- Flat axeDeep Cut85points
- FlatbowDeep Cut85points
- Flax brakeDeep Cut85points
- FleamDeep Cut85points
- FlecheDeep Cut85points
- Flesh hookDeep Cut85points
- FlesherDeep Cut85points
- FletchingDeep Cut85points
- Flint and pyriteDeep Cut85points
- Flint knappingDeep Cut85points
- Flint mineDeep Cut85points
- Float chamberDeep Cut85points
- Float valveDeep Cut85points
- Floating craneDeep Cut85points
- Flood archDeep Cut85points
- Floor planDeep Cut85points
- Florentine archDeep Cut85points
- FlushworkDeep Cut85points
- FlutingDeep Cut85points
- FluxDeep Cut85points
- Fly whiskDeep Cut85points
- Flyer (spinning)Deep Cut85points
- Flying cashDeep Cut85points
- Flying clawsDeep Cut85points
- Flying fire lanceDeep 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.