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
- Scaling ladderDeep Cut85points
- Scamilli imparesDeep Cut85points
- ScaphiumDeep Cut85points
- ScapularDeep Cut85points
- ScarabDeep Cut85points
- Scarf jointDeep Cut85points
- ScarificationDeep Cut85points
- ScarificatorDeep Cut85points
- ScarletDeep Cut85points
- ScarsellaDeep Cut85points
- SceatDeep Cut85points
- ScherfDeep Cut85points
- SchiavonescaDeep Cut85points
- SchynbaldDeep Cut85points
- Scissors trussDeep Cut85points
- ScoopDeep Cut85points
- Scoop wheelDeep Cut85points
- ScorpioDeep Cut85points
- ScourgeDeep Cut85points
- ScraperDeep Cut85points
- Scratch dialDeep Cut85points
- Screen printingDeep Cut85points
- Screen wallDeep Cut85points
- Screens passageDeep Cut85points
- Screw cutterDeep Cut85points
- Screw pressDeep Cut85points
- Scribe's paletteDeep Cut85points
- ScripDeep Cut85points
- ScutchingDeep Cut85points
- Scutching knifeDeep Cut85points
- ScutumDeep Cut85points
- ScytaleDeep Cut85points
- Scythed chariotDeep Cut85points
- SeDeep Cut85points
- Se (instrument)Deep Cut85points
- Sea silkDeep Cut85points
- Seal pasteDeep Cut85points
- Seal scriptDeep Cut85points
- Sealing waxDeep Cut85points
- SeaxDeep Cut85points
- SecespitaDeep Cut85points
- SechslingDeep Cut85points
- Secutor helmetDeep Cut85points
- SediliaDeep Cut85points
- Seeder ploughDeep Cut85points
- SeedlipDeep Cut85points
- Segmental archDeep Cut85points
- Segmental arch bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Segmental gearDeep Cut85points
- Selective breedingDeep 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.