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
- Reciprocal tableDeep Cut85points
- Rectal speculumDeep Cut85points
- RectangulusDeep Cut85points
- Red leadDeep Cut85points
- Red-figure potteryDeep Cut85points
- ReductionDeep Cut85points
- Reed (mouthpiece)Deep Cut85points
- Reed boatDeep Cut85points
- Reed penDeep Cut85points
- Reed pipeDeep Cut85points
- ReedingDeep Cut85points
- Reef knotDeep Cut85points
- Reef pointsDeep Cut85points
- Reel necklaceDeep Cut85points
- Refractory brickDeep Cut85points
- Refuge castleDeep Cut85points
- Regal (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- Regular scriptDeep Cut85points
- RehalDeep Cut85points
- Rein ringDeep Cut85points
- Relieving archDeep Cut85points
- Relieving triangleDeep Cut85points
- Religious habitDeep Cut85points
- Religious medalDeep Cut85points
- ReliquaryDeep Cut85points
- RenderingDeep Cut85points
- Rennet coagulationDeep Cut85points
- RepousséDeep Cut85points
- RerebraceDeep Cut85points
- ReredorterDeep Cut85points
- ReredosDeep Cut85points
- Resist dyeingDeep Cut85points
- RespiratorDeep Cut85points
- Restaurant menuDeep Cut85points
- Retaining wallDeep Cut85points
- Reticulated traceryDeep Cut85points
- RetortDeep Cut85points
- RetractorDeep Cut85points
- RetroquireDeep Cut85points
- RettingDeep Cut85points
- Reverse glass paintingDeep Cut85points
- Reverse overshot water-wheelDeep Cut85points
- RevetmentDeep Cut85points
- Revolving bookcaseDeep Cut85points
- Revolving lanternDeep Cut85points
- Revolving typecaseDeep Cut85points
- Rhaetian minusculeDeep Cut85points
- Rhenish guldenDeep Cut85points
- Rhenish helmDeep Cut85points
- RhinoplastyDeep 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.