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
- Frame (ship)Deep Cut85points
- Frame drumDeep Cut85points
- Frame-first constructionDeep Cut85points
- FrameaDeep Cut85points
- FrancDeep Cut85points
- FranciscaDeep Cut85points
- Free reedDeep Cut85points
- Freeze-dryingDeep Cut85points
- Frequency analysisDeep Cut85points
- Fresco seccoDeep Cut85points
- FriezeDeep Cut85points
- FrigateDeep Cut85points
- FrigidariumDeep Cut85points
- FritwareDeep Cut85points
- Frog-mouth helmDeep Cut85points
- Fruit waxingDeep Cut85points
- Fu (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Fu jinDeep Cut85points
- FuchuanDeep Cut85points
- Fulacht fiadhDeep Cut85points
- Full-rigged shipDeep Cut85points
- FullerDeep Cut85points
- FullingDeep Cut85points
- Fulling millDeep Cut85points
- FuluDeep Cut85points
- FumariumDeep Cut85points
- FumigationDeep Cut85points
- Fumigation apparatusDeep Cut85points
- FundoshiDeep Cut85points
- Funeral bierDeep Cut85points
- Funeral pyreDeep Cut85points
- Funerary bierDeep Cut85points
- FurcaDeep Cut85points
- Furo (brazier)Deep Cut85points
- FuroshikiDeep Cut85points
- FuseDeep Cut85points
- Fusee (horology)Deep Cut85points
- FustaDeep Cut85points
- FustianDeep Cut85points
- FusumaDeep Cut85points
- FutouDeep Cut85points
- Fyke netDeep Cut85points
- GaberdineDeep Cut85points
- GabionDeep Cut85points
- Gable hoodDeep Cut85points
- Gable roofDeep Cut85points
- GadaDeep Cut85points
- GadyanaDeep Cut85points
- Gainey pointDeep Cut85points
- GakgungDeep 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.