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
- TaylasanDeep Cut85points
- Tea houseDeep Cut85points
- Tea whiskDeep Cut85points
- Tea whiskingDeep Cut85points
- Teasel frameDeep Cut85points
- TecomateDeep Cut85points
- TecpatlDeep Cut85points
- Teeth blackeningDeep Cut85points
- Teething charmDeep Cut85points
- TeetotumDeep Cut85points
- TefillinDeep Cut85points
- TegulaDeep Cut85points
- TekheletDeep Cut85points
- Telugu scriptDeep Cut85points
- TemariDeep Cut85points
- TemazcalDeep Cut85points
- TemperaDeep Cut85points
- TemperingDeep Cut85points
- Temple carDeep Cut85points
- Temple mountainDeep Cut85points
- Temple tankDeep Cut85points
- TemplonDeep Cut85points
- TenderizingDeep Cut85points
- Tennis ballDeep Cut85points
- Tenon headDeep Cut85points
- Tent stitchDeep Cut85points
- TenterhookDeep Cut85points
- Teotihuacan writingDeep Cut85points
- TepidariumDeep Cut85points
- TeponaztliDeep Cut85points
- TepoztopilliDeep Cut85points
- TeraphimDeep Cut85points
- TeremDeep Cut85points
- TerpDeep Cut85points
- Terra pretaDeep Cut85points
- Terra sigillataDeep Cut85points
- Terra sigillata (medicinal)Deep Cut85points
- Terrace (building)Deep Cut85points
- Terraced houseDeep Cut85points
- TerrazzoDeep Cut85points
- TesseraDeep Cut85points
- TestoonDeep Cut85points
- Testudo (siege engine)Deep Cut85points
- TetartemorionDeep Cut85points
- TetarteronDeep Cut85points
- Tethered arrowDeep Cut85points
- TetraconchDeep Cut85points
- TetradrachmDeep Cut85points
- TetrapylonDeep Cut85points
- TetzilacatlDeep 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.