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
- Icelandic calendarDeep Cut85points
- IchcahuipilliDeep Cut85points
- Iconographic ringDeep Cut85points
- IconostasisDeep Cut85points
- IduDeep Cut85points
- IjangDeep Cut85points
- IkatDeep Cut85points
- IlgasisDeep Cut85points
- Illyrian helmetDeep Cut85points
- Ilseong jeongsiuiDeep Cut85points
- Imperial helmetDeep Cut85points
- ImpluviumDeep Cut85points
- ImpostDeep Cut85points
- ImprimaturaDeep Cut85points
- In-glaze decorationDeep Cut85points
- Inca calendarDeep Cut85points
- Incantation bowlDeep Cut85points
- Incendiary arrowDeep Cut85points
- Incendiary birdDeep Cut85points
- Incendiary bombDeep Cut85points
- Incendiary weaponDeep Cut85points
- Incense clockDeep Cut85points
- IncubatorDeep Cut85points
- Incung scriptDeep Cut85points
- IndexDeep Cut85points
- India inkDeep Cut85points
- Indus scriptDeep Cut85points
- Inflated skin floatDeep Cut85points
- InfulaDeep Cut85points
- InfusionDeep Cut85points
- IngegnoDeep Cut85points
- IngotDeep Cut85points
- Inhabited bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Inhalation therapyDeep Cut85points
- Ink ballDeep Cut85points
- Ink rubbingDeep Cut85points
- InkstickDeep Cut85points
- InkstoneDeep Cut85points
- InlayDeep Cut85points
- Inscriptional ParthianDeep Cut85points
- InsufflatorDeep Cut85points
- InsulaDeep Cut85points
- Insular scriptDeep Cut85points
- Intaglio printingDeep Cut85points
- IntercalationDeep Cut85points
- IntercroppingDeep Cut85points
- Interest-bearing loanDeep Cut85points
- Interlaced archesDeep Cut85points
- Internal buttressDeep Cut85points
- IntonacoDeep 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.