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
- Flying-cloud thunderclap eruptorDeep Cut85points
- Flying-hidden-bomb cannonDeep Cut85points
- Flying-sand bombDeep Cut85points
- FlywheelDeep Cut85points
- FocaleDeep Cut85points
- FogouDeep Cut85points
- Folding doorDeep Cut85points
- Folding ruleDeep Cut85points
- Folding screenDeep Cut85points
- Folding stoolDeep Cut85points
- FoliotDeep Cut85points
- FollisDeep Cut85points
- Folsom pointDeep Cut85points
- FonticulusDeep Cut85points
- Food mouldDeep Cut85points
- Foot snareDeep Cut85points
- Footed arrowDeep Cut85points
- FootwrapsDeep Cut85points
- Force pumpDeep Cut85points
- ForcepsDeep Cut85points
- Fore-and-aft rigDeep Cut85points
- ForecastleDeep Cut85points
- Foreign body extractionDeep Cut85points
- ForemastDeep Cut85points
- Forensic medicineDeep Cut85points
- Forest gardenDeep Cut85points
- Forest glassDeep Cut85points
- Forge weldingDeep Cut85points
- ForgingDeep Cut85points
- FormeretDeep Cut85points
- FormworkDeep Cut85points
- Fortified bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Fortified churchDeep Cut85points
- Fortified houseDeep Cut85points
- ForumDeep Cut85points
- Forward contractDeep Cut85points
- FouDeep Cut85points
- FoundationDeep Cut85points
- Foundation depositDeep Cut85points
- Foundation pegDeep Cut85points
- Fountain houseDeep Cut85points
- Four-bar linkageDeep Cut85points
- Four-centred archDeep Cut85points
- Four-horned saddleDeep Cut85points
- Four-poster bedDeep Cut85points
- Four-room houseDeep Cut85points
- Four-seasons chessDeep Cut85points
- Fox and geeseDeep Cut85points
- Fraction barDeep Cut85points
- Fragmentation bombDeep 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.