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
- ProskenionDeep Cut85points
- Prosthetic legDeep Cut85points
- ProteichismaDeep Cut85points
- ProthesisDeep Cut85points
- ProthyrumDeep Cut85points
- Proto-cuneiformDeep Cut85points
- Proto-cuneiform numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Proto-Elamite numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Proto-Elamite scriptDeep Cut85points
- Proto-porcelainDeep Cut85points
- Proto-Sinaitic scriptDeep Cut85points
- Proto-writingDeep Cut85points
- PruningDeep Cut85points
- PruntDeep Cut85points
- PrutahDeep Cut85points
- PsalionDeep Cut85points
- PsalteryDeep Cut85points
- PschentDeep Cut85points
- PsephosDeep Cut85points
- Pseudo-Corinthian helmetDeep Cut85points
- PsilothrumDeep Cut85points
- PsithyraDeep Cut85points
- PsykterDeep Cut85points
- PterugesDeep Cut85points
- Pterygium knifeDeep Cut85points
- Pu (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- PuddlingDeep Cut85points
- PuebloDeep Cut85points
- Puff (game)Deep Cut85points
- PugioDeep Cut85points
- Pull sawDeep Cut85points
- Pull toyDeep Cut85points
- PulpitDeep Cut85points
- Pulque makingDeep Cut85points
- Pulse diagnosisDeep Cut85points
- Pump drillDeep Cut85points
- Pumpkin domeDeep Cut85points
- PunchDeep Cut85points
- Punch-marked coinDeep Cut85points
- PungyeongDeep Cut85points
- PunkahDeep Cut85points
- Punt (boat)Deep Cut85points
- Puppet theaterDeep Cut85points
- PuquioDeep Cut85points
- PureeingDeep Cut85points
- PurgativeDeep Cut85points
- PurlinDeep Cut85points
- Purse netDeep Cut85points
- PushpapataDeep Cut85points
- PutcherDeep 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.