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
- NeedlepointDeep Cut85points
- NefDeep Cut85points
- Nef (table)Deep Cut85points
- Negative numbersDeep Cut85points
- Negau helmetDeep Cut85points
- NemesDeep Cut85points
- Nepal SambatDeep Cut85points
- Nest cartDeep Cut85points
- Nest of beesDeep Cut85points
- NestorisDeep Cut85points
- Netting needleDeep Cut85points
- Nettle clothDeep Cut85points
- NeumesDeep Cut85points
- NevelDeep Cut85points
- Newar windowDeep Cut85points
- NewelDeep Cut85points
- NeyDeep Cut85points
- NgoniDeep Cut85points
- NicheDeep Cut85points
- NielloDeep Cut85points
- Niello printDeep Cut85points
- NijūmonDeep Cut85points
- NilometerDeep Cut85points
- Nine men's morrisDeep Cut85points
- NiōmonDeep Cut85points
- Nippur calendarDeep Cut85points
- NiqabDeep Cut85points
- NiqqudDeep Cut85points
- NishkaDeep Cut85points
- NitraryDeep Cut85points
- Nitric acidDeep Cut85points
- NixtamalizationDeep Cut85points
- Noble (coin)Deep Cut85points
- NockDeep Cut85points
- Nocturnal (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- NodachiDeep Cut85points
- Noh maskDeep Cut85points
- NohkanDeep Cut85points
- NomenclatorDeep Cut85points
- Non-radial rib vaultDeep Cut85points
- NoriaDeep Cut85points
- Nose ornamentDeep Cut85points
- Nose ring for draft animalsDeep Cut85points
- NsibidiDeep Cut85points
- Nubian vaultDeep Cut85points
- Nun's ringDeep Cut85points
- Nundinal cycleDeep Cut85points
- NuragheDeep Cut85points
- Nut and boltDeep Cut85points
- NyckelharpaDeep 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.