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
- TeukgyeongDeep Cut85points
- TeukjongDeep Cut85points
- Textile paintingDeep Cut85points
- TezhongDeep Cut85points
- Thai numeralsDeep Cut85points
- Thai scriptDeep Cut85points
- ThanakaDeep Cut85points
- ThangkaDeep Cut85points
- ThawbDeep Cut85points
- Theatre machineryDeep Cut85points
- Theatre maskDeep Cut85points
- Theatre stageDeep Cut85points
- TheologeionDeep Cut85points
- Therapeutic exerciseDeep Cut85points
- TheriacDeep Cut85points
- ThermopoliumDeep Cut85points
- ThermoscopeDeep Cut85points
- ThesaurusDeep Cut85points
- ThickeningDeep Cut85points
- Thin Orange wareDeep Cut85points
- Thistle broochDeep Cut85points
- Thole pinDeep Cut85points
- Tholos tombDeep Cut85points
- Thor's hammerDeep Cut85points
- ThoracentesisDeep Cut85points
- ThoracomachusDeep Cut85points
- ThoroughbraceDeep Cut85points
- Thousand ball thunder cannonDeep Cut85points
- Three men's morrisDeep Cut85points
- Three-phase firingDeep Cut85points
- ThreshingDeep Cut85points
- Threshing boardDeep Cut85points
- Threshing floorDeep Cut85points
- ThresholdDeep Cut85points
- Throat-and-girth harnessDeep Cut85points
- Throttling valveDeep Cut85points
- Throwing axeDeep Cut85points
- Throwing stickDeep Cut85points
- ThrymsaDeep Cut85points
- Thumb ringDeep Cut85points
- Thunder crash bombDeep Cut85points
- Thunder machineDeep Cut85points
- Thunderclap bombDeep Cut85points
- ThureosDeep Cut85points
- ThwartDeep Cut85points
- Thyroid hormone treatmentDeep Cut85points
- Thyroid treatmentDeep Cut85points
- ThyromataDeep Cut85points
- ThyrsusDeep Cut85points
- Tibetan calendarDeep 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.