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
- Perpetual calendarDeep Cut85points
- PerronDeep Cut85points
- Perron (column)Deep Cut85points
- Perry makingDeep Cut85points
- Persian alphabetDeep Cut85points
- Persian columnDeep Cut85points
- PeseshkafDeep Cut85points
- PessaryDeep Cut85points
- PesticideDeep Cut85points
- Pet kotDeep Cut85points
- PetasosDeep Cut85points
- PetrariaDeep Cut85points
- PetteiaDeep Cut85points
- PewDeep Cut85points
- PewterDeep Cut85points
- PeytralDeep Cut85points
- Phags-pa scriptDeep Cut85points
- Phalanx-breaking fire sword-shieldDeep Cut85points
- Phalanx-charging fire gourdDeep Cut85points
- PhaleraDeep Cut85points
- Phallic sheathDeep Cut85points
- PhaselusDeep Cut85points
- PhialeDeep Cut85points
- PhilippeioiDeep Cut85points
- PhiloniumDeep Cut85points
- Philosopher's eggDeep Cut85points
- Phoenician numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Phoenix crownDeep Cut85points
- PhorminxDeep Cut85points
- PhormiskosDeep Cut85points
- Phosphorescent paintDeep Cut85points
- PhotinxDeep Cut85points
- Phrygian alphabetDeep Cut85points
- Phrygian capDeep Cut85points
- Phrygian helmetDeep Cut85points
- PhurbaDeep Cut85points
- Pi (Chinese sword-staff)Deep Cut85points
- PibianDeep Cut85points
- PiboleDeep Cut85points
- PicardDeep Cut85points
- PicatusDeep Cut85points
- PichcaDeep Cut85points
- PictogramDeep Cut85points
- Picture stoneDeep Cut85points
- Piece-mould castingDeep Cut85points
- PierDeep Cut85points
- PierrealeDeep Cut85points
- Pig ironDeep Cut85points
- Pig toiletDeep Cut85points
- PigacheDeep 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.