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
- Ant suturesDeep Cut85points
- Ant-nose moneyDeep Cut85points
- AntaralaDeep Cut85points
- AntariyaDeep Cut85points
- AntefixDeep Cut85points
- Antenna swordDeep Cut85points
- AntidoteDeep Cut85points
- AntimensionDeep Cut85points
- Antimony (metal)Deep Cut85points
- AntisepticDeep Cut85points
- Antler frontletDeep Cut85points
- AntoninianusDeep Cut85points
- AoqunDeep Cut85points
- ApadanaDeep Cut85points
- ApeneDeep Cut85points
- Apex (headwear)Deep Cut85points
- AphractDeep Cut85points
- AplustreDeep Cut85points
- ApodesmosDeep Cut85points
- ApodyteriumDeep Cut85points
- Apotropaic wandDeep Cut85points
- AppliqueDeep Cut85points
- Apron dressDeep Cut85points
- ApseDeep Cut85points
- Apulo-Corinthian helmetDeep Cut85points
- Aqua regiaDeep Cut85points
- AquamanileDeep Cut85points
- AquilaDeep Cut85points
- Arabic diacriticsDeep Cut85points
- Arachne sundialDeep Cut85points
- Aramaic alphabetDeep Cut85points
- ArbalestDeep Cut85points
- ArbyleDeep Cut85points
- ArcadeDeep Cut85points
- Arch damDeep Cut85points
- Arch-gravity damDeep Cut85points
- Arched harpDeep Cut85points
- Archery targetDeep Cut85points
- Archimedes' sphereDeep Cut85points
- Architectural crampDeep Cut85points
- ArchitraveDeep Cut85points
- ArchivoltDeep Cut85points
- ArcosoliumDeep Cut85points
- ArcuballistaDeep Cut85points
- ArdDeep Cut85points
- ArdhamandapaDeep Cut85points
- ArgenteusDeep Cut85points
- Argive gripDeep Cut85points
- Arm ringDeep Cut85points
- ArmariumDeep 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.