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
- TomolDeep Cut85points
- TonalpohualliDeep Cut85points
- TongiakiDeep Cut85points
- Tongtian guanDeep Cut85points
- Tongue depressorDeep Cut85points
- Tongue diagnosisDeep Cut85points
- Tongue piercingDeep Cut85points
- Tongue scraperDeep Cut85points
- TonnoireDeep Cut85points
- Tonsil knifeDeep Cut85points
- TonsillectomyDeep Cut85points
- ToolboxDeep Cut85points
- Tooled leatherDeep Cut85points
- Tooth elevatorDeep Cut85points
- Tooth extractionDeep Cut85points
- Tooth filingDeep Cut85points
- Tooth replantationDeep Cut85points
- Toothing stonesDeep Cut85points
- TopiaryDeep Cut85points
- TopsailDeep Cut85points
- Torah arkDeep Cut85points
- ToranaDeep Cut85points
- TorcDeep Cut85points
- Torch fishingDeep Cut85points
- ToriiDeep Cut85points
- TorneselDeep Cut85points
- Tōrō (stone lantern)Deep Cut85points
- ToronDeep Cut85points
- TorquetumDeep Cut85points
- TorreDeep Cut85points
- Torsion catapultDeep Cut85points
- Torsion springDeep Cut85points
- Tortoise broochDeep Cut85points
- TorusDeep Cut85points
- Totora boatDeep Cut85points
- Touch pieceDeep Cut85points
- TouchstoneDeep Cut85points
- TournetteDeep Cut85points
- TourniquetDeep Cut85points
- Tower craneDeep Cut85points
- Tower houseDeep Cut85points
- Tower millDeep Cut85points
- Tower of silenceDeep Cut85points
- Tower shieldDeep Cut85points
- Tower shipDeep Cut85points
- TowpathDeep Cut85points
- Toxic smoke weaponDeep Cut85points
- ToxobolistraDeep Cut85points
- TozacatlDeep Cut85points
- TrabeaDeep 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.