Krillion Recorded answers
3,492 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the suffix as a filter rather than a search term. First, empty your memory of towns you already know, then deliberately shrink the scale: think of the smallest named places you have ever seen on a map, in a postal address or on a road sign, because that is where the density lies. Next, work the morphology: take a handful of common first elements and try attaching them to the ending, then do the reverse and test longer tails that merely contain it. Keep a running list and deduplicate hard, since variants differing by one letter are the difference between a fresh answer and a repeat. Finally, sweep beyond the familiar naming region into transliterated forms and multi-word official names, which is where the unclaimed entries concentrate.
Get a hint
Begin with the ending itself: it is one of the most productive settlement suffixes in a whole family of related naming traditions, so the pool runs to thousands of entries and the reward comes from depth rather than from spotting the pattern.
A little more
Move from endings to shapes: many qualifying names are compounds whose first element is a personal name, a tree, a stream or a direction word, and a large share hide the ending inside longer tails such as -ston, -nton or -lton, so scanning those patterns multiplies your list.
One step further
The richest seam is the tier most players skip: tiny hamlets, absorbed suburban districts, isolated parish centres and transliterated names from unrelated naming systems, where near-identical forms cluster and each fresh variant is still unclaimed.
Reveal answers 3,492
- DraughtonDeep Cut85points
- DraytonDeep Cut85points
- DrewsteigntonDeep Cut85points
- DrighlingtonDeep Cut85points
- DrimptonDeep Cut85points
- Dry DoddingtonDeep Cut85points
- Dry DraytonDeep Cut85points
- DuckingtonDeep Cut85points
- DucklingtonDeep Cut85points
- DuckmantonDeep Cut85points
- DuddestonDeep Cut85points
- DuddingstonDeep Cut85points
- DuddingtonDeep Cut85points
- DudlestonDeep Cut85points
- DuftonDeep Cut85points
- DulvertonDeep Cut85points
- DumbartonDeep Cut85points
- DumbletonDeep Cut85points
- DummerstonDeep Cut85points
- DumplingtonDeep Cut85points
- DumptonDeep Cut85points
- DunbartonDeep Cut85points
- DunctonDeep Cut85points
- DunhamptonDeep Cut85points
- DunkertonDeep Cut85points
- DunningtonDeep Cut85points
- DunstonDeep Cut85points
- DuntertonDeep Cut85points
- DuntonDeep Cut85points
- DurlstonDeep Cut85points
- DurringtonDeep Cut85points
- DurstonDeep Cut85points
- DurwestonDeep Cut85points
- DustonDeep Cut85points
- DuttonDeep Cut85points
- EagletonDeep Cut85points
- EardingtonDeep Cut85points
- EardistonDeep Cut85points
- Earl ShiltonDeep Cut85points
- EarlingtonDeep Cut85points
- Earls BartonDeep Cut85points
- EarlsheatonDeep Cut85points
- EarlstonDeep Cut85points
- EarltonDeep Cut85points
- EasingtonDeep Cut85points
- East ActonDeep Cut85points
- East AllingtonDeep Cut85points
- East AltonDeep Cut85points
- East AntonDeep Cut85points
- East AppletonDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
A flat top tells the story: 3349 of the 3472 recorded answers sit on 85 points, so the scorer accepted almost any genuine settlement and then separated players by duplication rather than by obscurity alone. The solitary 100 went to Thaton, the rarest entry the scorer recognised, while entries such as Abberton and Accrington held 85 but shared their credit with a crowd. The 99 answers at 60 most plausibly represent the widely repeated choices, still correct but crowded enough for the overlap penalty to bite. Rarity therefore paid in one direction only: not exotic spelling for its own sake, but distance from whatever the average solver types first. A one-letter variant of a popular name earns less than an unfashionable hamlet, and the multi-word, hyphenated and transliterated forms in the list are the ones that stayed cheap to claim. Depth of recall beat cleverness.