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
- Priest HuttonDeep Cut85points
- Priest WestonDeep Cut85points
- Primer CantónDeep Cut85points
- Priors MarstonDeep Cut85points
- PristonDeep Cut85points
- PromptonDeep Cut85points
- ProspectonDeep Cut85points
- ProstonDeep Cut85points
- PuckingtonDeep Cut85points
- Pudding NortonDeep Cut85points
- PuddingtonDeep Cut85points
- PudlestonDeep Cut85points
- Puebla de AlbortónDeep Cut85points
- Pulo KitonDeep Cut85points
- PumpherstonDeep Cut85points
- PunchestonDeep Cut85points
- PuritonDeep Cut85points
- PurtonDeep Cut85points
- PutonDeep Cut85points
- PuxtonDeep Cut85points
- PyrtonDeep Cut85points
- Qal'ai GulistonDeep Cut85points
- QuaintonDeep Cut85points
- QuarreltonDeep Cut85points
- QuarringtonDeep Cut85points
- QuasquetonDeep Cut85points
- Queen CharltonDeep Cut85points
- QueenstonDeep Cut85points
- QueentonDeep Cut85points
- QueningtonDeep Cut85points
- QuidhamptonDeep Cut85points
- QuintonDeep Cut85points
- Radnor-WinstonDeep Cut85points
- RailtonDeep Cut85points
- RaintonDeep Cut85points
- RalstonDeep Cut85points
- RameltonDeep Cut85points
- RamptonDeep Cut85points
- RankinstonDeep Cut85points
- RantonDeep Cut85points
- Ratna ChatonDeep Cut85points
- RatonDeep Cut85points
- RavelstonDeep Cut85points
- RaytonDeep Cut85points
- ReadingtonDeep Cut85points
- RedgortonDeep Cut85points
- ReeftonDeep Cut85points
- ReifftonDeep Cut85points
- ReightonDeep Cut85points
- Rejo KatonDeep 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.