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
- LongbentonDeep Cut85points
- LongburtonDeep Cut85points
- LongframlingtonDeep Cut85points
- LonghoughtonDeep Cut85points
- LongnewtonDeep Cut85points
- LongstantonDeep Cut85points
- LongthorntonDeep Cut85points
- LongtonDeep Cut85points
- LoppingtonDeep Cut85points
- Loretz-d'ArgentonDeep Cut85points
- LortonDeep Cut85points
- LotonDeep Cut85points
- LoughtonDeep Cut85points
- LovingstonDeep Cut85points
- LovingtonDeep Cut85points
- Low BruntonDeep Cut85points
- Low CattonDeep Cut85points
- Low EllingtonDeep Cut85points
- Low HuttonDeep Cut85points
- Low LeightonDeep Cut85points
- Low LortonDeep Cut85points
- Low NewtonDeep Cut85points
- Low PittingtonDeep Cut85points
- Low SeatonDeep Cut85points
- Low ToyntonDeep Cut85points
- Lower AllstonDeep Cut85points
- Lower AshtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower BebingtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower BeddingtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower BoddingtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower BroughtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower CarltonDeep Cut85points
- Lower ClaptonDeep Cut85points
- Lower ComptonDeep Cut85points
- Lower East CarletonDeep Cut85points
- Lower EastonDeep Cut85points
- Lower EdmontonDeep Cut85points
- Lower FranktonDeep Cut85points
- Lower HoptonDeep Cut85points
- Lower HoughtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower KinnertonDeep Cut85points
- Lower LemingtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower MortonDeep Cut85points
- Lower OddingtonDeep Cut85points
- Lower QuintonDeep Cut85points
- Lower SheltonDeep Cut85points
- Lower SheptonDeep Cut85points
- Lower SomertonDeep Cut85points
- Lower StrattonDeep Cut85points
- Lower StrettonDeep 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.