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
- Romano-Celtic templeDeep Cut85points
- RōmonDeep Cut85points
- Ronde-bosseDeep Cut85points
- Rondel daggerDeep Cut85points
- Rood screenDeep Cut85points
- Roof combDeep Cut85points
- Roof ridge figuresDeep Cut85points
- Roof tileDeep Cut85points
- Room and pillar miningDeep Cut85points
- Root cellarDeep Cut85points
- Rope bedDeep Cut85points
- Rope machineDeep Cut85points
- Rope stretchingDeep Cut85points
- Rose oil dressingDeep Cut85points
- Rose waterDeep Cut85points
- Rose windowDeep Cut85points
- Rosewater sprinklerDeep Cut85points
- RosinDeep Cut85points
- Rossville pointDeep Cut85points
- Rostral columnDeep Cut85points
- Rotary fanDeep Cut85points
- Rotary quernDeep Cut85points
- Rotary winnowing fanDeep Cut85points
- Rote (lyre)Deep Cut85points
- RotteDeep Cut85points
- RotundaDeep Cut85points
- RoulettingDeep Cut85points
- Round barrowDeep Cut85points
- Round knifeDeep Cut85points
- Round shieldDeep Cut85points
- Roundel (fortification)Deep Cut85points
- RoundhouseDeep Cut85points
- Row cultivationDeep Cut85points
- RowlockDeep Cut85points
- Royal bargeDeep Cut85points
- Royal doorsDeep Cut85points
- Royal Game of UrDeep Cut85points
- Ru jinDeep Cut85points
- RuanDeep Cut85points
- RubabDeep Cut85points
- Rubab (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- Rubbish chuteDeep Cut85points
- Rubble masonryDeep Cut85points
- RubleDeep Cut85points
- RubricationDeep Cut85points
- RudisDeep Cut85points
- Ruina montiumDeep Cut85points
- Rumbling thunder bombDeep Cut85points
- Rumi numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Rune stickDeep 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.