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
- West DraytonDeep Cut85points
- West DumptonDeep Cut85points
- West DurringtonDeep Cut85points
- West EastonDeep Cut85points
- West ElktonDeep Cut85points
- West EyretonDeep Cut85points
- West FarmingtonDeep Cut85points
- West FeltonDeep Cut85points
- West GortonDeep Cut85points
- West GraftonDeep Cut85points
- West HaltonDeep Cut85points
- West HamiltonDeep Cut85points
- West HartonDeep Cut85points
- West HazletonDeep Cut85points
- West HerringtonDeep Cut85points
- West HeslertonDeep Cut85points
- West HorringtonDeep Cut85points
- West HoxtonDeep Cut85points
- West HuntingtonDeep Cut85points
- West KensingtonDeep Cut85points
- West KingstonDeep Cut85points
- West KingtonDeep Cut85points
- West KnaptonDeep Cut85points
- West KnightonDeep Cut85points
- West LamingtonDeep Cut85points
- West LangtonDeep Cut85points
- West LauncestonDeep Cut85points
- West LavingtonDeep Cut85points
- West LaytonDeep Cut85points
- West LintonDeep Cut85points
- West LittletonDeep Cut85points
- West LivingstonDeep Cut85points
- West LuttonDeep Cut85points
- West MartonDeep Cut85points
- West MeltonDeep Cut85points
- West MiltonDeep Cut85points
- West MonkseatonDeep Cut85points
- West MonktonDeep Cut85points
- West MortonDeep Cut85points
- West New BrightonDeep Cut85points
- West NewtonDeep Cut85points
- West NorritonDeep Cut85points
- West OvertonDeep Cut85points
- West PeltonDeep Cut85points
- West PiltonDeep Cut85points
- West PittstonDeep Cut85points
- West PrestonDeep Cut85points
- West RaintonDeep Cut85points
- West RockhamptonDeep Cut85points
- West RountonDeep 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.