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
- Armenian alphabetDeep Cut85points
- Armenian calendarDeep Cut85points
- Armenian numeralsDeep Cut85points
- ArmetDeep Cut85points
- ArmillDeep Cut85points
- ArmillaDeep Cut85points
- Arming capDeep Cut85points
- Arming pointDeep Cut85points
- ArmoireDeep Cut85points
- ArradaDeep Cut85points
- ArrastraDeep Cut85points
- Arrow extractorDeep Cut85points
- Arrow guideDeep Cut85points
- Arrow scoopDeep Cut85points
- Arrow-shaft wrenchDeep Cut85points
- ArrowslitDeep Cut85points
- ArsenalDeep Cut85points
- Arsenic (prepared)Deep Cut85points
- Arsenical bronzeDeep Cut85points
- Artemisia remedyDeep Cut85points
- ArtemonDeep Cut85points
- Arterial clampDeep Cut85points
- Artesian wellDeep Cut85points
- ArtesonadoDeep Cut85points
- Artificial flyDeep Cut85points
- Artificial gemstoneDeep Cut85points
- Artificial respirationDeep Cut85points
- Artillery castleDeep Cut85points
- AryballosDeep Cut85points
- As (coin)Deep Cut85points
- Asbestos clothDeep Cut85points
- Ash glazeDeep Cut85points
- Asherah poleDeep Cut85points
- AshlarDeep Cut85points
- AshtadhatuDeep Cut85points
- AshtapadaDeep Cut85points
- AskomaDeep Cut85points
- AskosDeep Cut85points
- AsorDeep Cut85points
- AspergillumDeep Cut85points
- AspisDeep Cut85points
- AssayDeep Cut85points
- AssegaiDeep Cut85points
- Asterisk (liturgy)Deep Cut85points
- AstrariumDeep Cut85points
- Astrolabe quadrantDeep Cut85points
- Astrolabic clockDeep Cut85points
- Astronomical chessDeep Cut85points
- Astronomical compassDeep Cut85points
- Astronomical compendiumDeep 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.