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
- PatenDeep Cut85points
- PatentDeep Cut85points
- PatinationDeep Cut85points
- PatolaDeep Cut85points
- PatolliDeep Cut85points
- PattenDeep Cut85points
- Pattern weldingDeep Cut85points
- PatuDeep Cut85points
- PauldronDeep Cut85points
- PavesadeDeep Cut85points
- PaviseDeep Cut85points
- Pawukon calendarDeep Cut85points
- Pax (liturgical object)Deep Cut85points
- Peach blackDeep Cut85points
- Peachwood swordDeep Cut85points
- Pecia systemDeep Cut85points
- PectoralDeep Cut85points
- Pectoral crossDeep Cut85points
- PedimentDeep Cut85points
- Peel (tool)Deep Cut85points
- PelanorDeep Cut85points
- PelekinosDeep Cut85points
- PelikeDeep Cut85points
- PelisseDeep Cut85points
- PellDeep Cut85points
- Pellet bowDeep Cut85points
- PelloteDeep Cut85points
- PeltaDeep Cut85points
- Pen (enclosure)Deep Cut85points
- Pen caseDeep Cut85points
- Pen-cutting blockDeep Cut85points
- Penannular broochDeep Cut85points
- Penannular ringDeep Cut85points
- PendDeep Cut85points
- Pendant vaultDeep Cut85points
- PendentiveDeep Cut85points
- PenknifeDeep Cut85points
- PentanummiumDeep Cut85points
- PentaspastosDeep Cut85points
- Pente grammaiDeep Cut85points
- Pentecontad calendarDeep Cut85points
- PenteconterDeep Cut85points
- PeplosDeep Cut85points
- Percent signDeep Cut85points
- PergolaDeep Cut85points
- PeriaktosDeep Cut85points
- PeriscopeDeep Cut85points
- PeristyleDeep Cut85points
- PeritomyDeep Cut85points
- Perpend stoneDeep 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.