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
- SolosDeep Cut85points
- Song brocadeDeep Cut85points
- SopilkaDeep Cut85points
- Soporific spongeDeep Cut85points
- SōrinDeep Cut85points
- SornaDeep Cut85points
- SotdaeDeep Cut85points
- SotoportegoDeep Cut85points
- Soul houseDeep Cut85points
- Sound (medical instrument)Deep Cut85points
- Sounding lineDeep Cut85points
- Sounding poleDeep Cut85points
- Sourdough fermentationDeep Cut85points
- SouterrainDeep Cut85points
- South Picene alphabetDeep Cut85points
- South-pointing chariotDeep Cut85points
- South-pointing spoonDeep Cut85points
- Sovereign (coin)Deep Cut85points
- Sow (siege engine)Deep Cut85points
- Spade moneyDeep Cut85points
- SpangenhelmDeep Cut85points
- Spanish knotDeep Cut85points
- Sparth axeDeep Cut85points
- SpathaDeep Cut85points
- SpathomeleDeep Cut85points
- SpaulderDeep Cut85points
- Spectacle fibulaDeep Cut85points
- SpeculumDeep Cut85points
- SpetumDeep Cut85points
- SphairaiDeep Cut85points
- Sphendone (hair)Deep Cut85points
- Spherical astrolabeDeep Cut85points
- SphyrelatonDeep Cut85points
- SpiculumDeep Cut85points
- SpillwayDeep Cut85points
- SpinaDeep Cut85points
- Spinifex resinDeep Cut85points
- SpintriaDeep Cut85points
- Spiral staircaseDeep Cut85points
- SpireDeep Cut85points
- Spire lightDeep Cut85points
- SpitDeep Cut85points
- Spit roastingDeep Cut85points
- SpittoonDeep Cut85points
- Splayed openingDeep Cut85points
- SplintDeep Cut85points
- Splint armourDeep Cut85points
- Split stitchDeep Cut85points
- SpolasDeep Cut85points
- Spoon of DioclesDeep 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.