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
- West RuntonDeep Cut85points
- West ScraftonDeep Cut85points
- West ScrantonDeep Cut85points
- West SheptonDeep Cut85points
- West SomertonDeep Cut85points
- West StoningtonDeep Cut85points
- West StrattonDeep Cut85points
- West ThirstonDeep Cut85points
- West ThorntonDeep Cut85points
- West TorringtonDeep Cut85points
- West WaltonDeep Cut85points
- West WarrentonDeep Cut85points
- West WittonDeep Cut85points
- West WorlingtonDeep Cut85points
- Westcott BartonDeep Cut85points
- WestertonDeep Cut85points
- WesthoughtonDeep Cut85points
- WestingtonDeep Cut85points
- WestletonDeep Cut85points
- WestmestonDeep Cut85points
- WestonDeep Cut85points
- WetheringtonDeep Cut85points
- WetonDeep Cut85points
- WettonDeep Cut85points
- WhaltonDeep Cut85points
- WhashtonDeep Cut85points
- WhatlingtonDeep Cut85points
- WhattonDeep Cut85points
- Wheaton AstonDeep Cut85points
- WheeltonDeep Cut85points
- WhelstonDeep Cut85points
- WhestonDeep Cut85points
- WhiltonDeep Cut85points
- Whins of MiltonDeep Cut85points
- WhiptonDeep Cut85points
- WhistonDeep Cut85points
- White Ladies AstonDeep Cut85points
- WhitelackingtonDeep Cut85points
- WhitestauntonDeep Cut85points
- WhittentonDeep Cut85points
- WhittingtonDeep Cut85points
- WhittonDeep Cut85points
- WhorltonDeep Cut85points
- WiartonDeep Cut85points
- WickhamptonDeep Cut85points
- WiddingtonDeep Cut85points
- WiddringtonDeep Cut85points
- WiggatonDeep Cut85points
- WiggintonDeep Cut85points
- WightonDeep 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.