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
- Backstrap loomDeep Cut85points
- Bactrian alphabetDeep Cut85points
- BahansenDeep Cut85points
- Bai scriptDeep Cut85points
- BaidarkaDeep Cut85points
- BaidiequnDeep Cut85points
- BaijiayiDeep Cut85points
- BaileyDeep Cut85points
- Bain-marieDeep Cut85points
- BainiaoqunDeep Cut85points
- BajiDeep Cut85points
- Baju kurungDeep Cut85points
- BakDeep Cut85points
- BalafonDeep Cut85points
- BalagDeep Cut85points
- Balance wheelDeep Cut85points
- Balanced rudderDeep Cut85points
- BalangayDeep Cut85points
- BalbalDeep Cut85points
- BalbisDeep Cut85points
- Balinese saka calendarDeep Cut85points
- Balinese scriptDeep Cut85points
- BalingerDeep Cut85points
- Ball bearingDeep Cut85points
- Ball court markerDeep Cut85points
- Ball court ringDeep Cut85points
- Ball flowerDeep Cut85points
- Ball-headed clubDeep Cut85points
- BallastDeep Cut85points
- BallcourtDeep Cut85points
- Ballgame yokeDeep Cut85points
- Ballot boxDeep Cut85points
- Balsa raftDeep Cut85points
- BalteusDeep Cut85points
- BalusterDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo pipelineDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo slipsDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo tube wellDeep Cut85points
- BanbiDeep Cut85points
- Band loomDeep Cut85points
- Band weavingDeep Cut85points
- Banded armourDeep Cut85points
- Bandit-striking penetrating gunDeep Cut85points
- BangleDeep Cut85points
- Banna'iDeep Cut85points
- BannerstoneDeep Cut85points
- Banpo symbolsDeep Cut85points
- BansuriDeep Cut85points
- BanyaDeep Cut85points
- BaofuDeep 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.