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
- RhomphaiaDeep Cut85points
- Rhythmic modesDeep Cut85points
- RhytonDeep Cut85points
- RiadDeep Cut85points
- Rib (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- Rib vaultDeep Cut85points
- RibatDeep Cut85points
- RibauldequinDeep Cut85points
- Ribbed domeDeep Cut85points
- Rice transplantingDeep Cut85points
- Rice-fish farmingDeep Cut85points
- RicettoDeep Cut85points
- Ridge and furrowDeep Cut85points
- Ridge beamDeep Cut85points
- Ridge ribDeep Cut85points
- Ridge turretDeep Cut85points
- RiflingDeep Cut85points
- RiggingDeep Cut85points
- Rigid heddle loomDeep Cut85points
- RillDeep Cut85points
- Ring keyDeep Cut85points
- Ring moneyDeep Cut85points
- Ring-pommel swordDeep Cut85points
- Ring-swordDeep Cut85points
- Ringed pinDeep Cut85points
- RingfortDeep Cut85points
- RingworkDeep Cut85points
- Ripple combDeep Cut85points
- Ripple-flake knifeDeep Cut85points
- RithmomachyDeep Cut85points
- Ritual standardDeep Cut85points
- RizaDeep Cut85points
- Road camberDeep Cut85points
- Roasting (ore)Deep Cut85points
- Robe déguiséeDeep Cut85points
- Robe of honourDeep Cut85points
- Rock castleDeep Cut85points
- Rock-cut architectureDeep Cut85points
- Rock-cut churchDeep Cut85points
- Rock-cut tombDeep Cut85points
- Rocket launcherDeep Cut85points
- Roller bearingDeep Cut85points
- RollersDeep Cut85points
- Roly-poly toyDeep Cut85points
- Roman cavalry sports helmetDeep Cut85points
- Roman cursiveDeep Cut85points
- Roman dodecahedronDeep Cut85points
- Roman square capitalsDeep Cut85points
- Roman typeDeep Cut85points
- RomanescaDeep 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.