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
- ShipshedDeep Cut85points
- Shitanaga abumiDeep Cut85points
- ShitomiDeep Cut85points
- ShoDeep Cut85points
- ShofarDeep Cut85points
- ShoinDeep Cut85points
- ShojiDeep Cut85points
- ShokoDeep Cut85points
- ShōrōDeep Cut85points
- Short assizeDeep Cut85points
- Short CountDeep Cut85points
- ShotelDeep Cut85points
- Shou (ribbon)Deep Cut85points
- Shoulder capeDeep Cut85points
- Shoulder claspDeep Cut85points
- Shoulder reductionDeep Cut85points
- Shouldered archDeep Cut85points
- Shoushi calendarDeep Cut85points
- ShreddingDeep Cut85points
- ShrineDeep Cut85points
- ShroudDeep Cut85points
- Shroud (rigging)Deep Cut85points
- Shu brocadeDeep Cut85points
- ShuangluDeep Cut85points
- ShuffleboardDeep Cut85points
- ShuheDeep Cut85points
- Shunting (sailing)Deep Cut85points
- ShuttleDeep Cut85points
- SibynaDeep Cut85points
- SicaDeep Cut85points
- Siddham scriptDeep Cut85points
- Sideless surcoatDeep Cut85points
- SidesaddleDeep Cut85points
- Sidetic alphabetDeep Cut85points
- SidewalkDeep Cut85points
- Siege borerDeep Cut85points
- Siege castleDeep Cut85points
- Siege hookDeep Cut85points
- Siege miningDeep Cut85points
- Siege rampDeep Cut85points
- SiennaDeep Cut85points
- Sieve of EratosthenesDeep Cut85points
- Sifen calendarDeep Cut85points
- Sight (device)Deep Cut85points
- Sighting tubeDeep Cut85points
- SiglosDeep Cut85points
- SignaculumDeep Cut85points
- Signal cannonDeep Cut85points
- Signal drumDeep Cut85points
- Signal flagDeep 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.