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
- Strongyle (round ship)Deep Cut85points
- StrophiumDeep Cut85points
- StrugDeep Cut85points
- StuccoDeep Cut85points
- StückofenDeep Cut85points
- StuffingDeep Cut85points
- StuiverDeep Cut85points
- StupaDeep Cut85points
- Stupa railingDeep Cut85points
- StycaDeep Cut85points
- StylobateDeep Cut85points
- SuanpanDeep Cut85points
- SubakDeep Cut85points
- SubarmalisDeep Cut85points
- SublimationDeep Cut85points
- Substitution cipherDeep Cut85points
- SubuculaDeep Cut85points
- Suction pumpDeep Cut85points
- SudareDeep Cut85points
- SudationDeep Cut85points
- SudisDeep Cut85points
- SudraDeep Cut85points
- SudrehDeep Cut85points
- Sue wareDeep Cut85points
- SuffibulumDeep Cut85points
- Sugar millDeep Cut85points
- Sugar refiningDeep Cut85points
- SugaringDeep Cut85points
- Sugarloaf hatDeep Cut85points
- SugorokuDeep Cut85points
- SuikanDeep Cut85points
- SukanasaDeep Cut85points
- SukankaDeep Cut85points
- SukkahDeep Cut85points
- Sulfuric acidDeep Cut85points
- SultaniDeep Cut85points
- SumatralithDeep Cut85points
- Sun templeDeep Cut85points
- Sunken plazaDeep Cut85points
- SuonaDeep Cut85points
- SuperhumeralDeep Cut85points
- Superposed orderDeep Cut85points
- SupertunicDeep Cut85points
- Supporting-arm broochDeep Cut85points
- SuppositoryDeep Cut85points
- SupyoDeep Cut85points
- SurcoatDeep Cut85points
- Surgical elevatorDeep Cut85points
- Surgical hookDeep Cut85points
- Surgical instrumentsDeep 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.