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
- HawalaDeep Cut85points
- HawdajDeep Cut85points
- Hawk bellDeep Cut85points
- HawseholeDeep Cut85points
- HaystackDeep Cut85points
- HazardDeep Cut85points
- He (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- Head coneDeep Cut85points
- Head knifeDeep Cut85points
- Head yokeDeep Cut85points
- HeadrestDeep Cut85points
- Heart scarabDeep Cut85points
- Heat treatment of stoneDeep Cut85points
- Heater shieldDeep Cut85points
- Hebrew calendarDeep Cut85points
- Hebrew numeralsDeep Cut85points
- HechangDeep Cut85points
- HeddleDeep Cut85points
- HedgeDeep Cut85points
- Hedwig glassDeep Cut85points
- Hehuan jinDeep Cut85points
- Heian shogiDeep Cut85points
- HeiauDeep Cut85points
- HelikonDeep Cut85points
- HeliotropionDeep Cut85points
- Hell Gap pointDeep Cut85points
- Heller (coin)Deep Cut85points
- Helmet crestDeep Cut85points
- Hemhem crownDeep Cut85points
- HemicycliumDeep Cut85points
- HemioliaDeep Cut85points
- HemithorakionDeep Cut85points
- Hemorrhoid surgeryDeep Cut85points
- Hemp clothDeep Cut85points
- Hemp millDeep Cut85points
- HengdaoDeep Cut85points
- HenninDeep Cut85points
- HentaiganaDeep Cut85points
- HepatizonDeep Cut85points
- Heraldic daggerDeep Cut85points
- HerbalDeep Cut85points
- HermDeep Cut85points
- Hermetic sealDeep Cut85points
- Hernia repairDeep Cut85points
- Hernia trussDeep Cut85points
- Hero's fountainDeep Cut85points
- Heron's windwheelDeep Cut85points
- HeroonDeep Cut85points
- Herring bussDeep Cut85points
- Herse (candle frame)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.