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
- Lower TadmartonDeep Cut85points
- Lower ThurltonDeep Cut85points
- Lower WaltonDeep Cut85points
- Lower WestonDeep Cut85points
- Lower WithingtonDeep Cut85points
- LowtonDeep Cut85points
- LoxtonDeep Cut85points
- LoyaltonDeep Cut85points
- LuckingtonDeep Cut85points
- LuctonDeep Cut85points
- LuddingtonDeep Cut85points
- LudingtonDeep Cut85points
- LuftonDeep Cut85points
- LugtonDeep Cut85points
- LullingtonDeep Cut85points
- LuptonDeep Cut85points
- LushtonDeep Cut85points
- LustonDeep Cut85points
- LuttonDeep Cut85points
- LuxtonDeep Cut85points
- LymingtonDeep Cut85points
- LyntonDeep Cut85points
- LyontonDeep Cut85points
- LytteltonDeep Cut85points
- LyttonDeep Cut85points
- MabitonDeep Cut85points
- MabletonDeep Cut85points
- MabtonDeep Cut85points
- MaddingtonDeep Cut85points
- MaddistonDeep Cut85points
- Maiden NewtonDeep Cut85points
- Maids MoretonDeep Cut85points
- Mali StonDeep Cut85points
- MaltonDeep Cut85points
- MambagatonDeep Cut85points
- ManatonDeep Cut85points
- ManningtonDeep Cut85points
- ManorhamiltonDeep Cut85points
- ManseltonDeep Cut85points
- ManstonDeep Cut85points
- MantonDeep Cut85points
- MapletonDeep Cut85points
- MappletonDeep Cut85points
- MarbletonDeep Cut85points
- MarchingtonDeep Cut85points
- MargokatonDeep Cut85points
- Marigné-PeutonDeep Cut85points
- MarkeatonDeep Cut85points
- Market DraytonDeep Cut85points
- Market LavingtonDeep 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.