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
- Jeulmun potteryDeep Cut85points
- Jewish hatDeep Cut85points
- JharokhaDeep Cut85points
- JiDeep Cut85points
- JiaDeep Cut85points
- JianDeep Cut85points
- Jian (basin)Deep Cut85points
- Jian maceDeep Cut85points
- Jian wareDeep Cut85points
- JianguDeep Cut85points
- JianqunDeep Cut85points
- JianzipuDeep Cut85points
- JicaraDeep Cut85points
- JieguDeep Cut85points
- Jinxian guanDeep Cut85points
- JitalDeep Cut85points
- Jizhou wareDeep Cut85points
- Joggled archDeep Cut85points
- JoistDeep Cut85points
- Jomon potteryDeep Cut85points
- JongDeep Cut85points
- Joss paperDeep Cut85points
- JournadeDeep Cut85points
- Jousting armourDeep Cut85points
- JubbaDeep Cut85points
- JueDeep Cut85points
- JuebianDeep Cut85points
- Jun wareDeep Cut85points
- JunggeumDeep Cut85points
- JūnihitoeDeep Cut85points
- Junk rigDeep Cut85points
- Jupiter columnDeep Cut85points
- JuponDeep Cut85points
- Jurchen scriptDeep Cut85points
- K'un-lun poDeep Cut85points
- KabutoDeep Cut85points
- Kachapi veenaDeep Cut85points
- KaftanDeep Cut85points
- KahavanuDeep Cut85points
- KaiawaseDeep Cut85points
- KaikenDeep Cut85points
- KairōDeep Cut85points
- KajjaliDeep Cut85points
- KakamDeep Cut85points
- KalashaDeep Cut85points
- Kalasha (finial)Deep Cut85points
- KalasirisDeep Cut85points
- KalathosDeep Cut85points
- KallankaDeep Cut85points
- Kama (kettle)Deep 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.