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
- Long broochDeep Cut85points
- Long CountDeep Cut85points
- Long diceDeep Cut85points
- Long guanDeep Cut85points
- LonghouseDeep Cut85points
- Lorica plumataDeep Cut85points
- Lorica segmentataDeep Cut85points
- LorosDeep Cut85points
- Lost-wax castingDeep Cut85points
- Lotus bunchDeep Cut85points
- Lotus clepsydraDeep Cut85points
- Lotus shoesDeep Cut85points
- Lou (tower)Deep Cut85points
- LouterionDeep Cut85points
- LoutrophorosDeep Cut85points
- Louvre (smoke vent)Deep Cut85points
- LozengeDeep Cut85points
- LubricantDeep Cut85points
- Lucerne hammerDeep Cut85points
- LucetDeep Cut85points
- Ludus latrunculorumDeep Cut85points
- Lunar SeriesDeep Cut85points
- LunetteDeep Cut85points
- LunulaDeep Cut85points
- LuopanDeep Cut85points
- LurDeep Cut85points
- Lustral basinDeep Cut85points
- LustrewareDeep Cut85points
- Lych gateDeep Cut85points
- Lycian alphabetDeep Cut85points
- Lydian alphabetDeep Cut85points
- LydionDeep Cut85points
- MacanaDeep Cut85points
- Mace (billiards)Deep Cut85points
- MachicolationDeep Cut85points
- MachiyaDeep Cut85points
- MacuahuitlDeep Cut85points
- Madder dyeDeep Cut85points
- Madder lakeDeep Cut85points
- MaedeupDeep Cut85points
- MaengseonDeep Cut85points
- MagadisDeep Cut85points
- Magan boatDeep Cut85points
- MagatamaDeep Cut85points
- Maghrebi scriptDeep Cut85points
- Magic fire meteor going against the wind bombDeep Cut85points
- Magic mirrorDeep Cut85points
- Magic squareDeep Cut85points
- Maguey sap wound dressingDeep Cut85points
- MahashilakantakaDeep 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.