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
- Astronomical sextantDeep Cut85points
- At-your-desire war cartDeep Cut85points
- AtbashDeep Cut85points
- AtgeirDeep Cut85points
- AthanorDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic roundhouseDeep Cut85points
- AtlasDeep Cut85points
- Atlas (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Atlatl dartDeep Cut85points
- AtriumDeep Cut85points
- Atsumi wareDeep Cut85points
- AttarDeep Cut85points
- Attic (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Attic baseDeep Cut85points
- Attic calendarDeep Cut85points
- Attic helmetDeep Cut85points
- Aucissa fibulaDeep Cut85points
- AudienciaDeep Cut85points
- AugustalisDeep Cut85points
- AulaeumDeep Cut85points
- AulosDeep Cut85points
- AumbryDeep Cut85points
- AumoniereDeep Cut85points
- Aurum potabileDeep Cut85points
- Austroasiatic crossbowDeep Cut85points
- AuthepsaDeep Cut85points
- Automaton clockDeep Cut85points
- AutopsyDeep Cut85points
- AventailDeep Cut85points
- Avestan alphabetDeep Cut85points
- AviaryDeep Cut85points
- AwasqaDeep Cut85points
- Awe-inspiring fierce-fire yaksha gunDeep Cut85points
- Awe-inspiring long-range cannonDeep Cut85points
- Axe-moneyDeep Cut85points
- AyotlDeep Cut85points
- AyoyotlDeep Cut85points
- AzekuraDeep Cut85points
- Azimuthal quadrantDeep Cut85points
- Aztec numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Aztec writingDeep Cut85points
- AzulejoDeep Cut85points
- Azurite (pigment)Deep Cut85points
- Azusa yumiDeep Cut85points
- BaboucheDeep Cut85points
- Baby walkerDeep Cut85points
- Babylonian calendarDeep Cut85points
- Backed bowDeep Cut85points
- BacksloppingDeep Cut85points
- BackstitchDeep 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.