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
- SaltpetreDeep Cut85points
- SalwarDeep Cut85points
- Samaritan scriptDeep Cut85points
- SambucaDeep Cut85points
- Sambuca (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- SambukDeep Cut85points
- SamghatiDeep Cut85points
- Samhan TongboDeep Cut85points
- Sámi drumDeep Cut85points
- SamiteDeep Cut85points
- Samnite helmetDeep Cut85points
- SampanDeep Cut85points
- SamplerDeep Cut85points
- SampotDeep Cut85points
- SanbōDeep Cut85points
- SancaiDeep Cut85points
- Sanctuary lampDeep Cut85points
- Sanctus bellDeep Cut85points
- Sand bathDeep Cut85points
- Sand castingDeep Cut85points
- Sand clockDeep Cut85points
- SandalionDeep Cut85points
- Sandalwood pasteDeep Cut85points
- SanggamDeep Cut85points
- SanmonDeep Cut85points
- SanseongDeep Cut85points
- SanturDeep Cut85points
- SanxianDeep Cut85points
- SappingDeep Cut85points
- SarafanDeep Cut85points
- Sarapis (tunic)Deep Cut85points
- SarcinaDeep Cut85points
- SardabDeep Cut85points
- SarissaDeep Cut85points
- SashDeep Cut85points
- SashinukiDeep Cut85points
- SasugaDeep Cut85points
- SatamanaDeep Cut85points
- Satin stitchDeep Cut85points
- Saucer domeDeep Cut85points
- Sauna whiskDeep Cut85points
- SaungDeep Cut85points
- SauroterDeep Cut85points
- SautéingDeep Cut85points
- SawndipDeep Cut85points
- Say (cloth)Deep Cut85points
- ScabellumDeep Cut85points
- Scaenae fronsDeep Cut85points
- ScaldingDeep Cut85points
- Scale armourDeep 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.