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
- SprangDeep Cut85points
- Sprigging (pottery)Deep Cut85points
- SpringDeep Cut85points
- Spring-driven clockDeep Cut85points
- SpringaldDeep Cut85points
- SpringerDeep Cut85points
- SpritsailDeep Cut85points
- SprocketDeep Cut85points
- SpurDeep Cut85points
- Spur (ship)Deep Cut85points
- Square notationDeep Cut85points
- Square sailDeep Cut85points
- Squatting-tiger trebuchetDeep Cut85points
- SquinchDeep Cut85points
- SquintDeep Cut85points
- StableDeep Cut85points
- Stack castingDeep Cut85points
- Staddle stonesDeep Cut85points
- Staff (music)Deep Cut85points
- Staff headDeep Cut85points
- Staff slingDeep Cut85points
- Staged mashingDeep Cut85points
- Staircase towerDeep Cut85points
- Stalled cairnDeep Cut85points
- StamnosDeep Cut85points
- Stamp millDeep Cut85points
- Stamp sealDeep Cut85points
- Standard measuresDeep Cut85points
- StaphylagraDeep Cut85points
- Star catalogueDeep Cut85points
- Star clockDeep Cut85points
- Star vaultDeep Cut85points
- Starch (laundry)Deep Cut85points
- Starch extractionDeep Cut85points
- StaterDeep Cut85points
- Static balancingDeep Cut85points
- Statue menhirDeep Cut85points
- Stave churchDeep Cut85points
- Steam bathDeep Cut85points
- Steam distillationDeep Cut85points
- Steam-levitated ballDeep Cut85points
- SteamerDeep Cut85points
- Steel millDeep Cut85points
- Steel-wheel igniterDeep Cut85points
- SteelyardDeep Cut85points
- Steelyard clepsydraDeep Cut85points
- Steering oarDeep Cut85points
- SteganographyDeep Cut85points
- SteleDeep Cut85points
- Stem (ship)Deep 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.