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
- KeelsonDeep Cut85points
- KeepDeep Cut85points
- Kefir fermentationDeep Cut85points
- KegelhelmDeep Cut85points
- KeikoDeep Cut85points
- KekryphalosDeep Cut85points
- KelekDeep Cut85points
- KelulusDeep Cut85points
- KemanDeep Cut85points
- KembenDeep Cut85points
- KendangDeep Cut85points
- KendiDeep Cut85points
- KensuiDeep Cut85points
- Kenukigata tachiDeep Cut85points
- KeraunoskopeionDeep Cut85points
- KeregeDeep Cut85points
- KerkourosDeep Cut85points
- Kermes dyeDeep Cut85points
- KernosDeep Cut85points
- KeroDeep Cut85points
- KeroseneDeep Cut85points
- Kerosene lampDeep Cut85points
- KerotakisDeep Cut85points
- KerseyDeep Cut85points
- KesiDeep Cut85points
- KesjaDeep Cut85points
- KestrosDeep Cut85points
- Kettle hatDeep Cut85points
- Keystone garnet broochDeep Cut85points
- KhachkarDeep Cut85points
- KhadinDeep Cut85points
- KhaenDeep Cut85points
- KhakkharaDeep Cut85points
- KhandaDeep Cut85points
- KharosthiDeep Cut85points
- Kharosthi numeralsDeep Cut85points
- KhatDeep Cut85points
- KhatamDeep Cut85points
- Khatangu degelDeep Cut85points
- KhepreshDeep Cut85points
- KhirigsuurDeep Cut85points
- Khitan calendarDeep Cut85points
- Khitan scriptDeep Cut85points
- Khmer numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Khmer scriptDeep Cut85points
- Khotanese scriptDeep Cut85points
- Khse dievDeep Cut85points
- Khwarezmian scriptDeep Cut85points
- KichoDeep Cut85points
- KidarisDeep 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.