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
- Potty chairDeep Cut85points
- Pou (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- PoulaineDeep Cut85points
- PoulticeDeep Cut85points
- Poultry pluckingDeep Cut85points
- PounceDeep Cut85points
- Pounce (art)Deep Cut85points
- Pound (currency unit)Deep Cut85points
- Pound (unit)Deep Cut85points
- Pound lockDeep Cut85points
- Pound signDeep Cut85points
- Pounding cartDeep Cut85points
- PourpointDeep Cut85points
- Powder hornDeep Cut85points
- Powder metallurgyDeep Cut85points
- Prachalit NepalDeep Cut85points
- PradakshinapathaDeep Cut85points
- PraefurniumDeep Cut85points
- Prague groschenDeep Cut85points
- PrangDeep Cut85points
- Prang (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- PrasatDeep Cut85points
- Prayer flagDeep Cut85points
- Prayer ropeDeep Cut85points
- Prayer rugDeep Cut85points
- Prayer stickDeep Cut85points
- Prayer wheelDeep Cut85points
- Pre-Islamic Arabian calendarDeep Cut85points
- Preheated-air furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Preserving in oilDeep Cut85points
- Pressure flakerDeep Cut85points
- Pressure flakingDeep Cut85points
- Prick spurDeep Cut85points
- Prie-dieuDeep Cut85points
- Priestly breastplateDeep Cut85points
- Printed advertisementDeep Cut85points
- Printed sheet musicDeep Cut85points
- Printer's markDeep Cut85points
- Printing privilegeDeep Cut85points
- Prismatic bladeDeep Cut85points
- PritchelDeep Cut85points
- ProaDeep Cut85points
- Programmable cartDeep Cut85points
- Programmable flute playerDeep Cut85points
- Projectile pointDeep Cut85points
- Promissory noteDeep Cut85points
- Promontory fortDeep Cut85points
- PronaosDeep Cut85points
- Proportional dividersDeep Cut85points
- PropylonDeep 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.