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
- Musical automatonDeep Cut85points
- Musical bowDeep Cut85points
- Musical staffDeep Cut85points
- MuslinDeep Cut85points
- MustatilDeep Cut85points
- MutuleDeep Cut85points
- MyoparoDeep Cut85points
- NabalDeep Cut85points
- Nabataean alphabetDeep Cut85points
- NabootDeep Cut85points
- NadaswaramDeep Cut85points
- NafirDeep Cut85points
- Naga bridgeDeep Cut85points
- NagamakiDeep Cut85points
- Nagari scriptDeep Cut85points
- NaginataDeep Cut85points
- Nail cleanerDeep Cut85points
- NakerDeep Cut85points
- NalbindingDeep Cut85points
- NandinagariDeep Cut85points
- NaoDeep Cut85points
- Naphtha weaponsDeep Cut85points
- Naples yellowDeep Cut85points
- NardDeep Cut85points
- NarthexDeep Cut85points
- Nasal helmetDeep Cut85points
- Nasal irrigationDeep Cut85points
- NaskhDeep Cut85points
- NastaliqDeep Cut85points
- NasyaDeep Cut85points
- Natural gas fuelDeep Cut85points
- Natural-draft furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Naue II swordDeep Cut85points
- NaumachiaDeep Cut85points
- Nautical chartDeep Cut85points
- Nautical odometerDeep Cut85points
- Naval fighting towerDeep Cut85points
- Naval mineDeep Cut85points
- Naval ramDeep Cut85points
- NaveDeep Cut85points
- NavetaDeep Cut85points
- NaviculaDeep Cut85points
- Navis actuariaDeep Cut85points
- Navis lusoriaDeep Cut85points
- Navis onerariaDeep Cut85points
- Navis turritaDeep Cut85points
- NazarDeep Cut85points
- NebrisDeep Cut85points
- Neck ditchDeep Cut85points
- Needle caseDeep 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.