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
- OrtonDeep Cut85points
- OsbaldestonDeep Cut85points
- OsbastonDeep Cut85points
- OsmastonDeep Cut85points
- OsmingtonDeep Cut85points
- OssingtonDeep Cut85points
- OtonDeep Cut85points
- OtterhamptonDeep Cut85points
- OttertonDeep Cut85points
- OughtringtonDeep Cut85points
- OulstonDeep Cut85points
- OultonDeep Cut85points
- OurtonDeep Cut85points
- OustonDeep Cut85points
- Out NewtonDeep Cut85points
- Over ComptonDeep Cut85points
- Over HultonDeep Cut85points
- Over NortonDeep Cut85points
- Over SiltonDeep Cut85points
- Over StrattonDeep Cut85points
- Over WortonDeep Cut85points
- OvertonDeep Cut85points
- OvingtonDeep Cut85points
- OvistonDeep Cut85points
- OwentonDeep Cut85points
- OwlertonDeep Cut85points
- OwstonDeep Cut85points
- OxentonDeep Cut85points
- OxtonDeep Cut85points
- PabatonDeep Cut85points
- PackingtonDeep Cut85points
- PactetónDeep Cut85points
- PadakatonDeep Cut85points
- PaigntonDeep Cut85points
- PailtonDeep Cut85points
- PaitonDeep Cut85points
- PajaltónDeep Cut85points
- PalitonDeep Cut85points
- PalmertonDeep Cut85points
- PaltertonDeep Cut85points
- PamingtonDeep Cut85points
- Pangkalan ButonDeep Cut85points
- PantonDeep Cut85points
- PapaichtonDeep Cut85points
- PapetonDeep Cut85points
- ParetónDeep Cut85points
- ParkestonDeep Cut85points
- ParkstonDeep Cut85points
- ParktonDeep Cut85points
- PartingtonDeep 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.