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
- NoctonDeep Cut85points
- NondaltonDeep Cut85points
- NoningtonDeep Cut85points
- NorbitonDeep Cut85points
- NorlingtonDeep Cut85points
- NormanstonDeep Cut85points
- NormantonDeep Cut85points
- NorotonDeep Cut85points
- North ActonDeep Cut85points
- North AnstonDeep Cut85points
- North AppletonDeep Cut85points
- North ArlingtonDeep Cut85points
- North AshtonDeep Cut85points
- North AstonDeep Cut85points
- North BarringtonDeep Cut85points
- North BenningtonDeep Cut85points
- North BostonDeep Cut85points
- North BrightonDeep Cut85points
- North BrixtonDeep Cut85points
- North CantonDeep Cut85points
- North CarltonDeep Cut85points
- North CarrolltonDeep Cut85points
- North CharlestonDeep Cut85points
- North CharltonDeep Cut85points
- North CheritonDeep Cut85points
- North CliftonDeep Cut85points
- North CockeringtonDeep Cut85points
- North CowtonDeep Cut85points
- North DaltonDeep Cut85points
- North DeightonDeep Cut85points
- North DightonDeep Cut85points
- North EastonDeep Cut85points
- North ElkingtonDeep Cut85points
- North EvanstonDeep Cut85points
- North EvingtonDeep Cut85points
- North FairlingtonDeep Cut85points
- North GraftonDeep Cut85points
- North GrimstonDeep Cut85points
- North HamptonDeep Cut85points
- North HoughtonDeep Cut85points
- North HyltonDeep Cut85points
- North KensingtonDeep Cut85points
- North KentonDeep Cut85points
- North KilvingtonDeep Cut85points
- North LambtonDeep Cut85points
- North LevertonDeep Cut85points
- North LewistonDeep Cut85points
- North LittletonDeep Cut85points
- North MarstonDeep Cut85points
- North MerchistonDeep 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.