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
- Signal flareDeep Cut85points
- Signal towerDeep Cut85points
- SignboardDeep Cut85points
- SignpostDeep Cut85points
- SiheyuanDeep Cut85points
- SiliquaDeep Cut85points
- Silk manuscriptDeep Cut85points
- Silk-reeling machineDeep Cut85points
- Silk-throwing millDeep Cut85points
- Sill plateDeep Cut85points
- Silver nitrateDeep Cut85points
- Silver stainDeep Cut85points
- Silver-giltDeep Cut85points
- SilverpointDeep Cut85points
- Sima (architecture)Deep Cut85points
- SimlaDeep Cut85points
- SimmeringDeep Cut85points
- SimpulumDeep Cut85points
- SindoorDeep Cut85points
- Sine quadrantDeep Cut85points
- SingijeonDeep Cut85points
- Sinhala scriptDeep Cut85points
- Sink worksDeep Cut85points
- SinkerDeep Cut85points
- SinopiaDeep Cut85points
- SipapuDeep Cut85points
- SipariumDeep Cut85points
- SiphonDeep Cut85points
- SistrumDeep Cut85points
- SisuraDeep Cut85points
- SittuyinDeep Cut85points
- SitulaDeep Cut85points
- Six men's morrisDeep Cut85points
- Six-aceDeep Cut85points
- Six's techniqueDeep Cut85points
- Siyaq numeralsDeep Cut85points
- SiyuxuanjinshiDeep Cut85points
- Size (glue)Deep Cut85points
- SkammaDeep Cut85points
- SkaramangionDeep Cut85points
- SkeidDeep Cut85points
- SkeneDeep Cut85points
- SkiadionDeep Cut85points
- SkiagraphiaDeep Cut85points
- SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- SkimmingDeep Cut85points
- Skin boatDeep Cut85points
- Skin graftDeep Cut85points
- Skin lightenerDeep Cut85points
- SkindapsosDeep 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.