Krillion Recorded answers
3,490 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 3,490
- AlfingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlfredtonDeep Cut85points
- AlfretonDeep Cut85points
- AlfristonDeep Cut85points
- AlhamptonDeep Cut85points
- AlkertonDeep Cut85points
- AlkingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlkmontonDeep Cut85points
- AlkringtonDeep Cut85points
- All StrettonDeep Cut85points
- AllantonDeep Cut85points
- AllastonDeep Cut85points
- AllentonDeep Cut85points
- AllerstonDeep Cut85points
- AllertonDeep Cut85points
- AllextonDeep Cut85points
- AllingtonDeep Cut85points
- AllistonDeep Cut85points
- Allston-BrightonDeep Cut85points
- AlmingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlmodingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlortonDeep Cut85points
- Aloxe-CortonDeep Cut85points
- AlpertonDeep Cut85points
- AlphetonDeep Cut85points
- AlphingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlpingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlsószentmártonDeep Cut85points
- AlstonDeep Cut85points
- AltonDeep Cut85points
- AlvastonDeep Cut85points
- AlvedistonDeep Cut85points
- AlvertonDeep Cut85points
- AlvestonDeep Cut85points
- AlvingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlvinstonDeep Cut85points
- AlvordtonDeep Cut85points
- AlwaltonDeep Cut85points
- AlwestonDeep Cut85points
- AlwingtonDeep Cut85points
- AlwintonDeep Cut85points
- AmbastonDeep Cut85points
- AmblestonDeep Cut85points
- AmertonDeep Cut85points
- Amfreville-sur-ItonDeep Cut85points
- AmingtonDeep Cut85points
- AmptonDeep Cut85points
- AnctonDeep Cut85points
- AnderstonDeep Cut85points
- AndertonDeep 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.