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
- Gold panningDeep Cut85points
- Gold refiningDeep Cut85points
- Gold threadDeep Cut85points
- Gold toolingDeep Cut85points
- Gold weightsDeep Cut85points
- Gold workingDeep Cut85points
- Goldbeater's skinDeep Cut85points
- Golden fleece sheepskinDeep Cut85points
- Golden hatDeep Cut85points
- Goldwork (embroidery)Deep Cut85points
- Golf ballDeep Cut85points
- GonfalonDeep Cut85points
- Gong (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Gong chimeDeep Cut85points
- Gongche notationDeep Cut85points
- Gongfu robeDeep Cut85points
- GopuramDeep Cut85points
- Gordion cupDeep Cut85points
- Gorge (fishing)Deep Cut85points
- GorgerinDeep Cut85points
- GorgetDeep Cut85points
- GorintoDeep Cut85points
- GorytosDeep Cut85points
- Gothic alphabetDeep Cut85points
- GouacheDeep Cut85points
- GougeDeep Cut85points
- Gourd containerDeep Cut85points
- GoussetDeep Cut85points
- GraftingDeep Cut85points
- Grain measureDeep Cut85points
- Grande acedrexDeep Cut85points
- Grantha scriptDeep Cut85points
- GranulationDeep Cut85points
- Grape stompingDeep Cut85points
- GrapeshotDeep Cut85points
- Grass cloakDeep Cut85points
- Gravity damDeep Cut85points
- Great general cannonDeep Cut85points
- Great helmDeep Cut85points
- Great houseDeep Cut85points
- GreavesDeep Cut85points
- Greek leptonDeep Cut85points
- Greek minusculeDeep Cut85points
- Greek musical notationDeep Cut85points
- Greek numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Green vitriolDeep Cut85points
- Grid mapDeep Cut85points
- Grid methodDeep Cut85points
- Grid planDeep Cut85points
- Grille (architecture)Deep 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.