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
- HakamaDeep Cut85points
- Half-uncialDeep Cut85points
- HallDeep Cut85points
- Hall churchDeep Cut85points
- Hall houseDeep Cut85points
- HallmarkDeep Cut85points
- HalterDeep Cut85points
- HalteresDeep Cut85points
- HammamDeep Cut85points
- Hammerbeam roofDeep Cut85points
- Hammered dulcimerDeep Cut85points
- HammerstoneDeep Cut85points
- HamsaDeep Cut85points
- Han purpleDeep Cut85points
- HanapDeep Cut85points
- HanbokDeep Cut85points
- Hand barrowDeep Cut85points
- Hand planeDeep Cut85points
- Hand trebuchetDeep Cut85points
- Hand-buildingDeep Cut85points
- HandbellDeep Cut85points
- HanfuDeep Cut85points
- HangarocDeep Cut85points
- Hanging bowlDeep Cut85points
- Hanging lampDeep Cut85points
- Hanging pestleDeep Cut85points
- Hanging scrollDeep Cut85points
- HaniwaDeep Cut85points
- Hanukkah menorahDeep Cut85points
- Hara-ateDeep Cut85points
- HaramakiDeep Cut85points
- Harbour chainDeep Cut85points
- Harbour craneDeep Cut85points
- Hardaway pointDeep Cut85points
- Hardin barbed pointDeep Cut85points
- Hare paengaDeep Cut85points
- Harif pointDeep Cut85points
- HarmamaxaDeep Cut85points
- HarpaxDeep Cut85points
- HarpeDeep Cut85points
- Harpoon floatDeep Cut85points
- Hasht BeheshtDeep Cut85points
- HastaDeep Cut85points
- HastaghnaDeep Cut85points
- Hat badgeDeep Cut85points
- Hathor capitalDeep Cut85points
- Hatran alphabetDeep Cut85points
- HatzotzerahDeep Cut85points
- HauberkDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian fishpondDeep 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.