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
- PoleisDeep Cut85points
- PoleynDeep Cut85points
- PolissoirDeep Cut85points
- PollardingDeep Cut85points
- Polo ballDeep Cut85points
- Polo malletDeep Cut85points
- PolosDeep Cut85points
- Polyalphabetic cipherDeep Cut85points
- Polybius squareDeep Cut85points
- PolybolosDeep Cut85points
- PolycandelonDeep Cut85points
- Polygonal masonryDeep Cut85points
- Polynesian navigationDeep Cut85points
- Polypus forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Polypus knifeDeep Cut85points
- PolyremeDeep Cut85points
- PolyspastosDeep Cut85points
- PolythyronDeep Cut85points
- PomanderDeep Cut85points
- Pompeian millDeep Cut85points
- PongeeDeep Cut85points
- PontoDeep Cut85points
- Poop deckDeep Cut85points
- Popinjay (archery)Deep Cut85points
- PoplinDeep Cut85points
- PoporoDeep Cut85points
- PoppyheadDeep Cut85points
- PorringerDeep Cut85points
- Portable sundialDeep Cut85points
- Portal (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Portative organDeep Cut85points
- PorticoDeep Cut85points
- Portolan chartDeep Cut85points
- Portrait vesselDeep Cut85points
- Positive organDeep Cut85points
- PosnetDeep Cut85points
- Possum-skin cloakDeep Cut85points
- Post and lintelDeep Cut85points
- Post millDeep Cut85points
- Post-slot wallDeep Cut85points
- PosternDeep Cut85points
- Posy ringDeep Cut85points
- Pot bellowsDeep Cut85points
- Pot-de-ferDeep Cut85points
- Pot-in-pot coolerDeep Cut85points
- PotashDeep Cut85points
- PothiDeep Cut85points
- PotinDeep Cut85points
- Potsherd pavementDeep Cut85points
- Pottery mouldDeep 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.