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
- KamadoDeep Cut85points
- KamalDeep Cut85points
- KamanchehDeep Cut85points
- KamandaluDeep Cut85points
- Kamares wareDeep Cut85points
- Kamarupi scriptDeep Cut85points
- KampterDeep Cut85points
- Kamui wareDeep Cut85points
- KanaDeep Cut85points
- KanaboDeep Cut85points
- KanchaDeep Cut85points
- KandiloDeep Cut85points
- KandysDeep Cut85points
- Kang bed-stoveDeep Cut85points
- KanglingDeep Cut85points
- KanmuriDeep Cut85points
- Kannada scriptDeep Cut85points
- KanteleDeep Cut85points
- KantharosDeep Cut85points
- KanthatranaDeep Cut85points
- KarabitsuDeep Cut85points
- KarahafuDeep Cut85points
- KarahiDeep Cut85points
- KaramonDeep Cut85points
- KarbandiDeep Cut85points
- KardiophylaxDeep Cut85points
- KaresansuiDeep Cut85points
- KariginuDeep Cut85points
- KarnayDeep Cut85points
- KarnöffelDeep Cut85points
- KartikaDeep Cut85points
- KarveDeep Cut85points
- KasayaDeep Cut85points
- KasbahDeep Cut85points
- Kassel cupDeep Cut85points
- KastenbrustDeep Cut85points
- KatakanaDeep Cut85points
- Katanga crossDeep Cut85points
- KatarDeep Cut85points
- KatashiroDeep Cut85points
- KatonakeDeep Cut85points
- KatsuogiDeep Cut85points
- KattumaramDeep Cut85points
- Kau chimDeep Cut85points
- KaunakesDeep Cut85points
- KausiaDeep Cut85points
- KavachaDeep Cut85points
- Kawi scriptDeep Cut85points
- KayabandhDeep Cut85points
- KazaghandDeep 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.