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
- Mead hallDeep Cut85points
- Mead makingDeep Cut85points
- MechaneDeep Cut85points
- Mechanical treeDeep Cut85points
- MedalDeep Cut85points
- MedallionDeep Cut85points
- Medallion (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Medical recordDeep Cut85points
- Medicated gheeDeep Cut85points
- Medicated oilDeep Cut85points
- Medicinal bathDeep Cut85points
- Medicinal plasterDeep Cut85points
- Medicinal powderDeep Cut85points
- Medicine ballDeep Cut85points
- Medicine chestDeep Cut85points
- Medicine wheelDeep Cut85points
- Medieval runesDeep Cut85points
- Medullary splintingDeep Cut85points
- MegalithDeep Cut85points
- Megarian bowlDeep Cut85points
- MegaronDeep Cut85points
- MehenDeep Cut85points
- MeipingDeep Cut85points
- MeliponicultureDeep Cut85points
- Memorial brassDeep Cut85points
- MenDeep Cut85points
- MenatDeep Cut85points
- MenaulionDeep Cut85points
- MengchongDeep Cut85points
- MenhirDeep Cut85points
- MeningophylaxDeep Cut85points
- Menologia rusticaDeep Cut85points
- MenpoDeep Cut85points
- Menstrual padDeep Cut85points
- Mensural notationDeep Cut85points
- Mercuric chlorideDeep Cut85points
- Mercuric oxideDeep Cut85points
- Mercury clockDeep Cut85points
- Mercury extractionDeep Cut85points
- Mercury ointmentDeep Cut85points
- MéreauDeep Cut85points
- Meridian lineDeep Cut85points
- MerkhetDeep Cut85points
- MerlonDeep Cut85points
- Meroitic scriptDeep Cut85points
- Merovingian scriptDeep Cut85points
- Merrythought cupDeep Cut85points
- MesangylonDeep Cut85points
- MesolabeDeep Cut85points
- Messapic alphabetDeep 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.