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
- HuanDeep Cut85points
- Huangji calendarDeep Cut85points
- HuehuetlDeep Cut85points
- Hufnagel notationDeep Cut85points
- HuidiyiDeep Cut85points
- HuipilDeep Cut85points
- HuleiqinDeep Cut85points
- Hulk (ship)Deep Cut85points
- HullerDeep Cut85points
- Hulusheng (gourd mouth organ)Deep Cut85points
- Humanist minusculeDeep Cut85points
- HumaoDeep Cut85points
- Humeral veilDeep Cut85points
- HundiDeep Cut85points
- Hungarian shieldDeep Cut85points
- HunpingDeep Cut85points
- Hunting blindDeep Cut85points
- Hunting hornDeep Cut85points
- Hunting netDeep Cut85points
- Hunting swordDeep Cut85points
- HuqinDeep Cut85points
- HuqueDeep Cut85points
- Hurdy-gurdyDeep Cut85points
- HurlbatDeep Cut85points
- HurleyDeep Cut85points
- HushingDeep Cut85points
- Hut urnDeep Cut85points
- HwachaDeep Cut85points
- HwamunseokDeep Cut85points
- HwandoDeep Cut85points
- HwandudaedoDeep Cut85points
- HwangchilDeep Cut85points
- HyangchalDeep Cut85points
- Hydraulic bellowsDeep Cut85points
- Hydraulic limeDeep Cut85points
- Hydraulic miningDeep Cut85points
- Hydraulic telegraphDeep Cut85points
- HydraulisDeep Cut85points
- HydriaDeep Cut85points
- Hydrocephalus drainageDeep Cut85points
- HydrometerDeep Cut85points
- Hydrostatic balanceDeep Cut85points
- Hygiene stickDeep Cut85points
- HygrometerDeep Cut85points
- Hypodermic needleDeep Cut85points
- HypogeumDeep Cut85points
- Hypostyle hallDeep Cut85points
- HypozomataDeep Cut85points
- HysplexDeep Cut85points
- Ice chiselDeep 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.