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
- Tibetan scriptDeep Cut85points
- TicketDeep Cut85points
- TickingDeep Cut85points
- Tidal stone weirDeep Cut85points
- Tide millDeep Cut85points
- Tide tableDeep Cut85points
- Tie beamDeep Cut85points
- Tie rodDeep Cut85points
- TieliDeep Cut85points
- TierceronDeep Cut85points
- TifinaghDeep Cut85points
- Tigalari scriptDeep Cut85points
- Tiger tallyDeep Cut85points
- Tiger-head hatDeep Cut85points
- TightropeDeep Cut85points
- Tile mosaicDeep Cut85points
- TillerDeep Cut85points
- TilmàtliDeep Cut85points
- Tilt barrierDeep Cut85points
- TiltyardDeep Cut85points
- Timber circleDeep Cut85points
- Timber framingDeep Cut85points
- Tin-glazed potteryDeep Cut85points
- TinctureDeep Cut85points
- TinningDeep Cut85points
- TinplateDeep Cut85points
- Tinsel printDeep Cut85points
- TintinnabulumDeep Cut85points
- TinyaDeep Cut85points
- TippetDeep Cut85points
- TirazDeep Cut85points
- TirhutaDeep Cut85points
- Tironian notesDeep Cut85points
- Title pageDeep Cut85points
- TixiDeep Cut85points
- TlahuiztliDeep Cut85points
- TochacatlDeep Cut85points
- Tocharian scriptDeep Cut85points
- Toe ringDeep Cut85points
- Toe stirrupDeep Cut85points
- ToggleDeep Cut85points
- Toggling harpoonDeep Cut85points
- Tokoname wareDeep Cut85points
- TokonomaDeep Cut85points
- Toleta de marteloioDeep Cut85points
- TollenoDeep Cut85points
- Tomb effigyDeep Cut85points
- Tomb figurinesDeep Cut85points
- Tomb modelDeep Cut85points
- Tomb towerDeep 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.