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
- PlanceerDeep Cut85points
- Plancon a picotDeep Cut85points
- PlanetariumDeep Cut85points
- PlanishingDeep Cut85points
- Planishing hammerDeep Cut85points
- Plank houseDeep Cut85points
- Plank-built shipDeep Cut85points
- PlappartDeep Cut85points
- Plaster castDeep Cut85points
- Plaster of ParisDeep Cut85points
- Plastic vaseDeep Cut85points
- Plate broochDeep Cut85points
- Platform moundDeep Cut85points
- PlatterDeep Cut85points
- Pleasure bargeDeep Cut85points
- PleatingDeep Cut85points
- PlectrumDeep Cut85points
- PlemochoeDeep Cut85points
- PlinthDeep Cut85points
- Plique-à-jourDeep Cut85points
- Plostellum punicumDeep Cut85points
- Plough coulterDeep Cut85points
- PloughshareDeep Cut85points
- Plug and feathersDeep Cut85points
- Plug valveDeep Cut85points
- Plumb bobDeep Cut85points
- Plumb levelDeep Cut85points
- PlumbataDeep Cut85points
- Plumbate wareDeep Cut85points
- Plus and minus signsDeep Cut85points
- PluteusDeep Cut85points
- PlyingDeep Cut85points
- PlywoodDeep Cut85points
- Pneumatic catapultDeep Cut85points
- Po (Korean robe)Deep Cut85points
- PoachingDeep Cut85points
- PochDeep Cut85points
- Podalic versionDeep Cut85points
- PodaoDeep Cut85points
- PodiumDeep Cut85points
- Point chiselDeep Cut85points
- Point cutDeep Cut85points
- Poison gas bombDeep Cut85points
- Poison ringDeep Cut85points
- Poison-fog divine smoke eruptorDeep Cut85points
- Polar-axis sundialDeep Cut85points
- PolderDeep Cut85points
- Pole latheDeep Cut85points
- PolearmDeep Cut85points
- PoleaxeDeep 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.