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
- South MoltonDeep Cut85points
- South MoretonDeep Cut85points
- South New BrightonDeep Cut85points
- South NewingtonDeep Cut85points
- South NewtonDeep Cut85points
- South NormantonDeep Cut85points
- South OtteringtonDeep Cut85points
- South PethertonDeep Cut85points
- South PlymptonDeep Cut85points
- South RestonDeep Cut85points
- South RoyaltonDeep Cut85points
- South RunctonDeep Cut85points
- South SpreytonDeep Cut85points
- South TankertonDeep Cut85points
- South TawtonDeep Cut85points
- South ThomastonDeep Cut85points
- South TrentonDeep Cut85points
- South TwertonDeep Cut85points
- South UlverstonDeep Cut85points
- South WestonDeep Cut85points
- South WigstonDeep Cut85points
- South WilmingtonDeep Cut85points
- South WiltonDeep Cut85points
- South WonstonDeep Cut85points
- South WoottonDeep Cut85points
- SouthertonDeep Cut85points
- SouthingtonDeep Cut85points
- SouthtonDeep Cut85points
- Southwest ArlingtonDeep Cut85points
- SowtonDeep Cut85points
- SpaldingtonDeep Cut85points
- SpatestonDeep Cut85points
- SpauntonDeep Cut85points
- SpaxtonDeep Cut85points
- SpeetonDeep Cut85points
- SprattonDeep Cut85points
- SpreytonDeep Cut85points
- SpridlingtonDeep Cut85points
- SpringertonDeep Cut85points
- SpringstonDeep Cut85points
- SpringtonDeep Cut85points
- SproughtonDeep Cut85points
- SproustonDeep Cut85points
- SprowstonDeep Cut85points
- SproxtonDeep Cut85points
- SrikatonDeep Cut85points
- St. AntonDeep Cut85points
- St. JohnstonDeep Cut85points
- StadhamptonDeep Cut85points
- StaintonDeep 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.