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
- GrivnaDeep Cut85points
- GroatDeep Cut85points
- Groin vaultDeep Cut85points
- GromaDeep Cut85points
- Grooved directorDeep Cut85points
- Ground ratDeep Cut85points
- Ground sluicingDeep Cut85points
- Ground stone toolDeep Cut85points
- GroyneDeep Cut85points
- Gu (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Guan (jar)Deep Cut85points
- Guan jinDeep Cut85points
- GuandaoDeep Cut85points
- GuaraDeep Cut85points
- Guard stoneDeep Cut85points
- GudokDeep Cut85points
- GugelDeep Cut85points
- GugyeolDeep Cut85points
- Gui (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Guidonian handDeep Cut85points
- GuigeDeep Cut85points
- GuisarmeDeep Cut85points
- GuiyiDeep Cut85points
- GuldinerDeep Cut85points
- Gun carriageDeep Cut85points
- Gun portDeep Cut85points
- Gun towerDeep Cut85points
- Gunpowder caltropDeep Cut85points
- Gunpowder millDeep Cut85points
- Gunpowder mine (siege)Deep Cut85points
- GunstockDeep Cut85points
- Gupta scriptDeep Cut85points
- GuqinDeep Cut85points
- GusliDeep Cut85points
- GuzhengDeep Cut85points
- GwaseonDeep Cut85points
- Haab'Deep Cut85points
- HachaDeep Cut85points
- HackamoreDeep Cut85points
- HackleDeep Cut85points
- HaegeumDeep Cut85points
- HafirDeep Cut85points
- HaftingDeep Cut85points
- HagoitaDeep Cut85points
- Hahoe maskDeep Cut85points
- HaihuDeep Cut85points
- Hair oilDeep Cut85points
- Hair removalDeep Cut85points
- Hair ringDeep Cut85points
- Hair shirtDeep 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.