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
- Little LaytonDeep Cut85points
- Little MartonDeep Cut85points
- Little MeltonDeep Cut85points
- Little MiltonDeep Cut85points
- Little NestonDeep Cut85points
- Little NortonDeep Cut85points
- Little PaxtonDeep Cut85points
- Little PontonDeep Cut85points
- Little PoultonDeep Cut85points
- Little PrestonDeep Cut85points
- Little RibstonDeep Cut85points
- Little RissingtonDeep Cut85points
- Little RytonDeep Cut85points
- Little ShurdingtonDeep Cut85points
- Little SingletonDeep Cut85points
- Little SmeatonDeep Cut85points
- Little StaintonDeep Cut85points
- Little StaughtonDeep Cut85points
- Little StrettonDeep Cut85points
- Little SuttonDeep Cut85points
- Little TorringtonDeep Cut85points
- Little WeightonDeep Cut85points
- Little WymingtonDeep Cut85points
- LittlehamptonDeep Cut85points
- LittlehempstonDeep Cut85points
- LittonDeep Cut85points
- LivertonDeep Cut85points
- LiztonDeep Cut85points
- LobutonDeep Cut85points
- LochtonDeep Cut85points
- LockingtonDeep Cut85points
- LocktonDeep Cut85points
- LoddingtonDeep Cut85points
- LogantonDeep Cut85points
- Logny-lès-AubentonDeep Cut85points
- Long AshtonDeep Cut85points
- Long BenningtonDeep Cut85points
- Long ComptonDeep Cut85points
- Long DittonDeep Cut85points
- Long DuckmantonDeep Cut85points
- Long EatonDeep Cut85points
- Long ItchingtonDeep Cut85points
- Long MarstonDeep Cut85points
- Long MartonDeep Cut85points
- Long NewntonDeep Cut85points
- Long PrestonDeep Cut85points
- Long RistonDeep Cut85points
- Long StrattonDeep Cut85points
- Long SuttonDeep Cut85points
- Long WhattonDeep 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.