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
- Seleucid calendarDeep Cut85points
- Self bowDeep Cut85points
- Self-filling lampDeep Cut85points
- Self-trimming lampDeep Cut85points
- SemantronDeep Cut85points
- Semi-domeDeep Cut85points
- SemicolonDeep Cut85points
- Semilunar stone knifeDeep Cut85points
- SemisDeep Cut85points
- SemispathaDeep Cut85points
- SemissisDeep Cut85points
- SemunciaDeep Cut85points
- SendalDeep Cut85points
- Senmyo calendarDeep Cut85points
- SennitDeep Cut85points
- SeongbuldoDeep Cut85points
- Separation of conjoined twinsDeep Cut85points
- Sepia inkDeep Cut85points
- Septic tankDeep Cut85points
- SeptiremeDeep Cut85points
- Septum ringDeep Cut85points
- SergeDeep Cut85points
- SericultureDeep Cut85points
- Serpentine (cannon)Deep Cut85points
- Serpentine fibulaDeep Cut85points
- SesiDeep Cut85points
- SestertiusDeep Cut85points
- Seto wareDeep Cut85points
- SetonDeep Cut85points
- Settee (sail)Deep Cut85points
- SettleDeep Cut85points
- Settling tankDeep Cut85points
- SeunggyeongdoDeep Cut85points
- Seven stonesDeep Cut85points
- Sewn boatDeep Cut85points
- Sexagenary cycleDeep Cut85points
- SexagesimalDeep Cut85points
- Sexpartite vaultDeep Cut85points
- Sextans (coin)Deep Cut85points
- SgraffitoDeep Cut85points
- ShabbabaDeep Cut85points
- ShabestanDeep Cut85points
- ShabtiDeep Cut85points
- ShachuanDeep Cut85points
- Shadow clockDeep Cut85points
- Shadow definerDeep Cut85points
- Shadow squareDeep Cut85points
- Shaft furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Shaft straightenerDeep Cut85points
- Shaft tombDeep 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.