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
- ShahrudDeep Cut85points
- ShakubyoshiDeep Cut85points
- ShakudōDeep Cut85points
- ShakuhachiDeep Cut85points
- Shale oil extractionDeep Cut85points
- Shallow fryingDeep Cut85points
- ShamshirDeep Cut85points
- ShanqunDeep Cut85points
- ShanyrakDeep Cut85points
- Sharada scriptDeep Cut85points
- ShashkaDeep Cut85points
- ShataghniDeep Cut85points
- ShatranjDeep Cut85points
- Shaving horseDeep Cut85points
- ShawmDeep Cut85points
- Shea butterDeep Cut85points
- Shearing (cloth)Deep Cut85points
- Shebyu collarDeep Cut85points
- Shed rodDeep Cut85points
- Sheepskin raftDeep Cut85points
- Sheet bendDeep Cut85points
- Sheet metalDeep Cut85points
- ShekelDeep Cut85points
- Shell goldDeep Cut85points
- Shell keepDeep Cut85points
- Shell moneyDeep Cut85points
- Shell-first constructionDeep Cut85points
- ShellacDeep Cut85points
- ShendytDeep Cut85points
- ShenyiDeep Cut85points
- Shepherd's crookDeep Cut85points
- Shi (divining board)Deep Cut85points
- ShibiDeep Cut85points
- ShichenDeep Cut85points
- ShicraDeep Cut85points
- Shield bossDeep Cut85points
- Shield listDeep Cut85points
- Shield wallDeep Cut85points
- Shigaraki wareDeep Cut85points
- ShikharaDeep Cut85points
- ShikoroDeep Cut85points
- ShiliuqunDeep Cut85points
- ShillingDeep Cut85points
- Shime-daikoDeep Cut85points
- ShimenawaDeep Cut85points
- ShinbashiraDeep Cut85points
- ShingleDeep Cut85points
- Shinto shrineDeep Cut85points
- Ship millDeep Cut85points
- Ship's boatDeep 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.