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
- QuincunxDeep Cut85points
- QuinqueremeDeep Cut85points
- QuintainDeep Cut85points
- QuirkDeep Cut85points
- QujuDeep Cut85points
- QulittuqDeep Cut85points
- QulliqDeep Cut85points
- QullqaDeep Cut85points
- Qumran calendarDeep Cut85points
- QuoinDeep Cut85points
- Quoit broochDeep Cut85points
- QuoitsDeep Cut85points
- Rack and pinionDeep Cut85points
- RackingDeep Cut85points
- Radiate-headed broochDeep Cut85points
- RaedaDeep Cut85points
- Raffia clothDeep Cut85points
- RafterDeep Cut85points
- Rag-and-chain pumpDeep Cut85points
- Rain gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Rainwater harvestingDeep Cut85points
- Raised bedDeep Cut85points
- Raised fieldsDeep Cut85points
- Raised-relief mapDeep Cut85points
- Raising (metalworking)Deep Cut85points
- Ram tortoiseDeep Cut85points
- Ram-daoDeep Cut85points
- Ramie fabricDeep Cut85points
- Rammed earthDeep Cut85points
- RammerDeep Cut85points
- RampartDeep Cut85points
- Ramping archDeep Cut85points
- Ranjana scriptDeep Cut85points
- RanseurDeep Cut85points
- Rashi scriptDeep Cut85points
- RaspDeep Cut85points
- Rasp (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- RaspatoryDeep Cut85points
- RatchetDeep Cut85points
- Ratha (temple chariot)Deep Cut85points
- Rattle drumDeep Cut85points
- Real (coin)Deep Cut85points
- Real tennis courtDeep Cut85points
- ReamerDeep Cut85points
- Rear-archDeep Cut85points
- RebabDeep Cut85points
- Rebate planeDeep Cut85points
- RebecDeep Cut85points
- Rebus principleDeep Cut85points
- ReceiptDeep 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.