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
- Hollow brickDeep Cut85points
- Hollow post millDeep Cut85points
- Holmegaard bowDeep Cut85points
- Holy anointing oilDeep Cut85points
- Holy doorDeep Cut85points
- Holy water fontDeep Cut85points
- HomiDeep Cut85points
- Homophonic substitution cipherDeep Cut85points
- Honey Creek corner-notched pointDeep Cut85points
- Honey preservationDeep Cut85points
- Honey wound dressingDeep Cut85points
- HoodDeep Cut85points
- Hood mouldDeep Cut85points
- Hook and eyeDeep Cut85points
- Hook shieldDeep Cut85points
- HopaeDeep Cut85points
- HoppingDeep Cut85points
- Horary quadrantDeep Cut85points
- Horizontal loomDeep Cut85points
- Horizontal water wheelDeep Cut85points
- HornbookDeep Cut85points
- HornpipeDeep Cut85points
- Hornpipe (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- Horns of consecrationDeep Cut85points
- HoroDeep Cut85points
- HórreoDeep Cut85points
- HorreumDeep Cut85points
- Horse maskDeep Cut85points
- Horse millDeep Cut85points
- Horse transportDeep Cut85points
- Horse-beheading gunDeep Cut85points
- Horseman's pickDeep Cut85points
- Horseshoe archDeep Cut85points
- HoseDeep Cut85points
- Hoshi kabutoDeep Cut85points
- HoufniceDeep Cut85points
- Hounds and jackalsDeep Cut85points
- HounskullDeep Cut85points
- HouppelandeDeep Cut85points
- Hourglass drumDeep Cut85points
- HousebarnDeep Cut85points
- Household shrineDeep Cut85points
- HowdahDeep Cut85points
- HoyDeep Cut85points
- Hu (ritual baton)Deep Cut85points
- Hu (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- HuabiaoDeep Cut85points
- HuachaqueDeep Cut85points
- HuadianDeep Cut85points
- HuafangDeep 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.