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
- Morin khuurDeep Cut85points
- Morocco leatherDeep Cut85points
- MorseDeep Cut85points
- Mortar (masonry)Deep Cut85points
- Mortar (weapon)Deep Cut85points
- MortariumDeep Cut85points
- Mortise and tenonDeep Cut85points
- Mortuary crossDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic glassDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic goldDeep Cut85points
- Mother coinDeep Cut85points
- Mother-of-pearl inlayDeep Cut85points
- Motte-and-baileyDeep Cut85points
- MouldDeep Cut85points
- MouldingDeep Cut85points
- Mountain pattern armourDeep Cut85points
- Mounting blockDeep Cut85points
- Mourning dressDeep Cut85points
- Mourning ringDeep Cut85points
- MoxibustionDeep Cut85points
- MoxiongDeep Cut85points
- MridangamDeep Cut85points
- MtepeDeep Cut85points
- Mud bathDeep Cut85points
- MudarabaDeep Cut85points
- MudclothDeep Cut85points
- MudgarDeep Cut85points
- MudhifDeep Cut85points
- Muga silkDeep Cut85points
- MughniDeep Cut85points
- MuhaqqaqDeep Cut85points
- Muisca calendarDeep Cut85points
- MukaDeep Cut85points
- MuklukDeep Cut85points
- MullionDeep Cut85points
- Multi-toolDeep Cut85points
- Multifoil archDeep Cut85points
- Multiple bullets magazine eruptorDeep Cut85points
- Multiple-arch damDeep Cut85points
- Multistage rocketDeep Cut85points
- MumiaDeep Cut85points
- MunduDeep Cut85points
- MuqarnasDeep Cut85points
- Mural quadrantDeep Cut85points
- MuraqqaDeep Cut85points
- Murder holeDeep Cut85points
- Murus gallicusDeep Cut85points
- Muscle cuirassDeep Cut85points
- Muscovy glassDeep Cut85points
- MusculusDeep 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.