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
- Hessian crucibleDeep Cut85points
- Hexagram (currency)Deep Cut85points
- HexaremeDeep Cut85points
- Hezi skirtDeep Cut85points
- Hi-Lo pointDeep Cut85points
- HibachiDeep Cut85points
- HichirikiDeep Cut85points
- Hidden roofDeep Cut85points
- Hide grainerDeep Cut85points
- Hiera picraDeep Cut85points
- HieraticDeep Cut85points
- High crossDeep Cut85points
- HikimayuDeep Cut85points
- Hill censerDeep Cut85points
- Hill figureDeep Cut85points
- HillfortDeep Cut85points
- HimantesDeep Cut85points
- HimationDeep Cut85points
- HimorogiDeep Cut85points
- Hindu calendarDeep Cut85points
- Hindu templeDeep Cut85points
- HiogiDeep Cut85points
- Hip bathDeep Cut85points
- Hip guardDeep Cut85points
- Hip roofDeep Cut85points
- Hip-and-gable roofDeep Cut85points
- HippaphesisDeep Cut85points
- Hippocratic benchDeep Cut85points
- HippodromeDeep Cut85points
- Hippos (ship)Deep Cut85points
- HipposandalDeep Cut85points
- HiraganaDeep Cut85points
- Hispano-Moresque wareDeep Cut85points
- Historiated initialDeep Cut85points
- HitatareDeep Cut85points
- HitoeDeep Cut85points
- HnefataflDeep Cut85points
- Hō (robe)Deep Cut85points
- HoardingDeep Cut85points
- HobbleDeep Cut85points
- Hobby horseDeep Cut85points
- HobnailDeep Cut85points
- HogbackDeep Cut85points
- Hogging trussDeep Cut85points
- HokoDeep Cut85points
- HokyointoDeep Cut85points
- Hold (ship)Deep Cut85points
- HoldfastDeep Cut85points
- HolkasDeep Cut85points
- Holland clothDeep 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.