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
- NymphaeumDeep Cut85points
- O-mikujiDeep Cut85points
- O-yoroiDeep Cut85points
- OakumDeep Cut85points
- Oar portDeep Cut85points
- Obelisk shipDeep Cut85points
- ObelosDeep Cut85points
- ObiDeep Cut85points
- Obstetric forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Obstetric hookDeep Cut85points
- OcteresDeep Cut85points
- Octopartite vaultDeep Cut85points
- Octopus potDeep Cut85points
- OculusDeep Cut85points
- OdeonDeep Cut85points
- Odia scriptDeep Cut85points
- OdometerDeep Cut85points
- Offering tableDeep Cut85points
- OfudaDeep Cut85points
- Ogee archDeep Cut85points
- OghamDeep Cut85points
- Ogham stoneDeep Cut85points
- Oil paintDeep Cut85points
- Oil pressingDeep Cut85points
- Oil pullingDeep Cut85points
- Oil refiningDeep Cut85points
- Oil wellDeep Cut85points
- OilclothDeep Cut85points
- OinochoeDeep Cut85points
- OintmentDeep Cut85points
- Ointment slabDeep Cut85points
- Old Hungarian scriptDeep Cut85points
- Old Nubian scriptDeep Cut85points
- Old Permic scriptDeep Cut85points
- Old Persian cuneiformDeep Cut85points
- Old Sundanese scriptDeep Cut85points
- Old Turkic scriptDeep Cut85points
- Old Uyghur alphabetDeep Cut85points
- OleationDeep Cut85points
- OlifantDeep Cut85points
- Olive pressDeep Cut85points
- Olla irrigationDeep Cut85points
- Olmec scriptDeep Cut85points
- Olo boardDeep Cut85points
- OlpeDeep Cut85points
- Olympiad datingDeep Cut85points
- Olynthus millDeep Cut85points
- OmichicahuaztliDeep Cut85points
- OmophorionDeep Cut85points
- OmphalosDeep 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.