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
- SomokatonDeep Cut85points
- SopertonDeep Cut85points
- SothertonDeep Cut85points
- SoudertonDeep Cut85points
- SoughtonDeep Cut85points
- SourtonDeep Cut85points
- South ActonDeep Cut85points
- South AnstonDeep Cut85points
- South BarringtonDeep Cut85points
- South BeddingtonDeep Cut85points
- South BoltonDeep Cut85points
- South BostonDeep Cut85points
- South BradentonDeep Cut85points
- South BrightonDeep Cut85points
- South BurlingtonDeep Cut85points
- South CarltonDeep Cut85points
- South CarrolltonDeep Cut85points
- South CharlestonDeep Cut85points
- South CharltonDeep Cut85points
- South CheritonDeep Cut85points
- South CliftonDeep Cut85points
- South ClintonDeep Cut85points
- South CockeringtonDeep Cut85points
- South CowtonDeep Cut85points
- South CroxtonDeep Cut85points
- South DaltonDeep Cut85points
- South DaytonDeep Cut85points
- South EastonDeep Cut85points
- South ElkingtonDeep Cut85points
- South EvanstonDeep Cut85points
- South FultonDeep Cut85points
- South GraftonDeep Cut85points
- South HamiltonDeep Cut85points
- South HazeltonDeep Cut85points
- South HeightonDeep Cut85points
- South HettonDeep Cut85points
- South HopkintonDeep Cut85points
- South HorringtonDeep Cut85points
- South HoustonDeep Cut85points
- South HuntingtonDeep Cut85points
- South HyltonDeep Cut85points
- South KentonDeep Cut85points
- South KilvingtonDeep Cut85points
- South KnightonDeep Cut85points
- South LauncestonDeep Cut85points
- South LevertonDeep Cut85points
- South LewistonDeep Cut85points
- South LittletonDeep Cut85points
- South MarstonDeep Cut85points
- South MiltonDeep 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.