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
- GhatamDeep Cut85points
- GhaychakDeep Cut85points
- GhungrooDeep Cut85points
- GhurabDeep Cut85points
- Giants' graveDeep Cut85points
- GiboshiDeep Cut85points
- Giga (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- Gigaku maskDeep Cut85points
- GigliatoDeep Cut85points
- GildingDeep Cut85points
- GillnetDeep Cut85points
- GimbalDeep Cut85points
- GimletDeep Cut85points
- Gin poleDeep Cut85points
- GingrasDeep Cut85points
- GiorneaDeep Cut85points
- Girdle bookDeep Cut85points
- Girdle hangerDeep Cut85points
- Girih tilesDeep Cut85points
- GiroDeep Cut85points
- GirthDeep Cut85points
- GisshaDeep Cut85points
- GitternDeep Cut85points
- GlacisDeep Cut85points
- Gladiator helmetDeep Cut85points
- Glagolitic numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Glagolitic scriptDeep Cut85points
- GlairDeep Cut85points
- GlaiveDeep Cut85points
- Glass castingDeep Cut85points
- Glass fusingDeep Cut85points
- GlazeDeep Cut85points
- Glaze (painting technique)Deep Cut85points
- Glazed brickDeep Cut85points
- Glazed quartziteDeep Cut85points
- Glazed steatiteDeep Cut85points
- Glazed tileDeep Cut85points
- GlirariumDeep Cut85points
- Globus crucigerDeep Cut85points
- GlossaryDeep Cut85points
- GlossocomiumDeep Cut85points
- GnomonDeep Cut85points
- GoadDeep Cut85points
- GoalpostDeep Cut85points
- Goat's foot leverDeep Cut85points
- Goblet drumDeep Cut85points
- GoedendagDeep Cut85points
- Gold foil figureDeep Cut85points
- Gold glassDeep Cut85points
- Gold leafDeep 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.