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
- Lambrequin archDeep Cut85points
- Lamellar armourDeep Cut85points
- Lamellar helmetDeep Cut85points
- Laminar armourDeep Cut85points
- Laminated woodDeep Cut85points
- Lamp blackDeep Cut85points
- LampasDeep Cut85points
- LampworkingDeep Cut85points
- LancaranDeep Cut85points
- Lance restDeep Cut85points
- LanceaDeep Cut85points
- LancetDeep Cut85points
- Lancet windowDeep Cut85points
- Land yachtDeep Cut85points
- Landa scriptsDeep Cut85points
- LangiDeep Cut85points
- LanolinDeep Cut85points
- LanshanDeep Cut85points
- Lantern (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Lantern gearDeep Cut85points
- Lao scriptDeep Cut85points
- Lap counterDeep Cut85points
- LapidaryDeep Cut85points
- Lapis specularisDeep Cut85points
- LaptiDeep Cut85points
- LarariumDeep Cut85points
- LardingDeep Cut85points
- LarnaxDeep Cut85points
- Lashed-lug boatDeep Cut85points
- LashingDeep Cut85points
- Late Roman ridge helmetDeep Cut85points
- Latitude sailingDeep Cut85points
- Latte stoneDeep Cut85points
- LatticeworkDeep Cut85points
- LattimoDeep Cut85points
- Lauhala weavingDeep Cut85points
- LauneddasDeep Cut85points
- LavaboDeep Cut85points
- Lawn (cloth)Deep Cut85points
- LayeringDeep Cut85points
- Lead acetateDeep Cut85points
- Lead glassDeep Cut85points
- Lead glazeDeep Cut85points
- Lead sheathingDeep Cut85points
- Lead stylusDeep Cut85points
- Lead whiteDeep Cut85points
- Lead-tin yellowDeep Cut85points
- Leaf tabletDeep Cut85points
- Leaf wrappingDeep Cut85points
- Lean-toDeep 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.