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
- Surgical needleDeep Cut85points
- Surgical probeDeep Cut85points
- Surgical sawDeep Cut85points
- Surgical scoopDeep Cut85points
- SurmaDeep Cut85points
- SurpliceDeep Cut85points
- Surveying staffDeep Cut85points
- Suspension (vehicle)Deep Cut85points
- Sutra bindingDeep Cut85points
- Suzhou numeralsDeep Cut85points
- SuzuribakoDeep Cut85points
- SvardstavDeep Cut85points
- Swaddling clothesDeep Cut85points
- Swallow-tail incendiaryDeep Cut85points
- Sweat lodgeDeep Cut85points
- Swinging bedDeep Cut85points
- Swivel gunDeep Cut85points
- SyceeDeep Cut85points
- SyllabaryDeep Cut85points
- SynagogueDeep Cut85points
- SynthrononDeep Cut85points
- Syriac alphabetDeep Cut85points
- Syrian archDeep Cut85points
- TabarDeep Cut85points
- Tabarian calendarDeep Cut85points
- TabarzinDeep Cut85points
- TabiDeep Cut85points
- TablDeep Cut85points
- TablatureDeep Cut85points
- Table cutDeep Cut85points
- Table of contentsDeep Cut85points
- TableclothDeep Cut85points
- Tables (game)Deep Cut85points
- Tablet weavingDeep Cut85points
- TablinumDeep Cut85points
- TablionDeep Cut85points
- TaborDeep Cut85points
- TabotDeep Cut85points
- TabulaDeep Cut85points
- Tabun ovenDeep Cut85points
- TachiDeep Cut85points
- TaelDeep Cut85points
- TaepyeongsoDeep Cut85points
- TaffetaDeep Cut85points
- TagelmustDeep Cut85points
- TagvorinDeep Cut85points
- TahōtōDeep Cut85points
- Tai Tham scriptDeep Cut85points
- Taichu calendarDeep Cut85points
- TaikoDeep 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.