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
- GaleaDeep Cut85points
- GaleroDeep Cut85points
- GalerusDeep Cut85points
- GaliotDeep Cut85points
- Gallery (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Gallery graveDeep Cut85points
- Gallery roadDeep Cut85points
- Galley (kitchen)Deep Cut85points
- GallipotDeep Cut85points
- GambangDeep Cut85points
- GambesonDeep Cut85points
- Game drive systemDeep Cut85points
- Game pieceDeep Cut85points
- GamelanDeep Cut85points
- GamurraDeep Cut85points
- GanuiDeep Cut85points
- GarbhagrihaDeep Cut85points
- GardbraceDeep Cut85points
- GardcorpDeep Cut85points
- GarderobeDeep Cut85points
- GarnacheDeep Cut85points
- GarterDeep Cut85points
- GastraphetesDeep Cut85points
- GatDeep Cut85points
- GatehouseDeep Cut85points
- GaulosDeep Cut85points
- GauzeDeep Cut85points
- GayageumDeep Cut85points
- GazetteerDeep Cut85points
- Ge wareDeep Cut85points
- Ge'ez numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Ge'ez scriptDeep Cut85points
- Gear trainDeep Cut85points
- Geared astrolabeDeep Cut85points
- Geared calendarDeep Cut85points
- GeisonDeep Cut85points
- GemshornDeep Cut85points
- GenovinoDeep Cut85points
- GeoglyphDeep Cut85points
- Geometric squareDeep Cut85points
- GeomungoDeep Cut85points
- GeongoDeep Cut85points
- Georgian scriptsDeep Cut85points
- Germanic boar helmetDeep Cut85points
- Germanic calendarDeep Cut85points
- Germanic lyreDeep Cut85points
- GessoDeep Cut85points
- GetaDeep Cut85points
- GhantaDeep Cut85points
- GhatDeep 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.