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
- InuksukDeep Cut85points
- Inverted archDeep Cut85points
- Inverted siphonDeep Cut85points
- IphicratidsDeep Cut85points
- Irish calendarDeep Cut85points
- Irish harpDeep Cut85points
- Irish round towerDeep Cut85points
- Iron gall dyeDeep Cut85points
- Iron gall inkDeep Cut85points
- IroriDeep Cut85points
- IsinglassDeep Cut85points
- Islamic calendarDeep Cut85points
- Isthmian scriptDeep Cut85points
- Italic scriptDeep Cut85points
- ItinerariumDeep Cut85points
- IwanDeep Cut85points
- IzarDeep Cut85points
- IzbaDeep Cut85points
- Iznik potteryDeep Cut85points
- Jack (bowls)Deep Cut85points
- Jack of plateDeep Cut85points
- Jacob's staffDeep Cut85points
- JacquemartDeep Cut85points
- Jade burial suitDeep Cut85points
- JagatiDeep Cut85points
- JagyeongnuDeep Cut85points
- Jalali calendarDeep Cut85points
- JalbahDeep Cut85points
- JaliDeep Cut85points
- Jam makingDeep Cut85points
- JamagDeep Cut85points
- JambDeep Cut85points
- Jamb statueDeep Cut85points
- JanggiDeep Cut85points
- JangguDeep Cut85points
- Japa malaDeep Cut85points
- Japanese era nameDeep Cut85points
- Japanese writing systemDeep Cut85points
- Jar burialDeep Cut85points
- Javanese scriptDeep Cut85points
- Jawi scriptDeep Cut85points
- JawshanDeep Cut85points
- JazerantDeep Cut85points
- JeogoriDeep Cut85points
- JeongganboDeep Cut85points
- JeongjagwanDeep Cut85points
- JeonpoDeep Cut85points
- JessesDeep Cut85points
- JetonDeep Cut85points
- JettyingDeep 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.