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
- Stem stitchDeep Cut85points
- Step pyramidDeep Cut85points
- Stepping stonesDeep Cut85points
- StepwellDeep Cut85points
- Sterling silverDeep Cut85points
- SterncastleDeep Cut85points
- SternpostDeep Cut85points
- StibadiumDeep Cut85points
- StilettoDeep Cut85points
- StillDeep Cut85points
- Stilt houseDeep Cut85points
- Stilted archDeep Cut85points
- StimulusDeep Cut85points
- Stirrup jarDeep Cut85points
- Stirrup-spout vesselDeep Cut85points
- StoaDeep Cut85points
- StockingsDeep Cut85points
- StocksDeep Cut85points
- StolaDeep Cut85points
- StoleDeep Cut85points
- StomionDeep Cut85points
- Stone bladeDeep Cut85points
- Stone boilingDeep Cut85points
- Stone masonryDeep Cut85points
- Stone rowDeep Cut85points
- Stone sawDeep Cut85points
- Stone shipDeep Cut85points
- Stone vessels (Judaea)Deep Cut85points
- Stone-walled enclosureDeep Cut85points
- StonebowDeep Cut85points
- StonewareDeep Cut85points
- StopcockDeep Cut85points
- StopingDeep Cut85points
- Storage pitDeep Cut85points
- Strainer archDeep Cut85points
- Strap endDeep Cut85points
- StrappadoDeep Cut85points
- Straw plaitingDeep Cut85points
- Street lightDeep Cut85points
- StrigilDeep Cut85points
- Striking clockDeep Cut85points
- String figureDeep Cut85points
- String of cashDeep Cut85points
- String skirtDeep Cut85points
- String telephoneDeep Cut85points
- Strip broochDeep Cut85points
- Strip twistingDeep Cut85points
- Strip weavingDeep Cut85points
- Strob escapementDeep Cut85points
- StrongboxDeep 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.