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
- BogstonDeep Cut85points
- BogtonDeep Cut85points
- Boissevain-MortonDeep Cut85points
- BollingtonDeep Cut85points
- BonningtonDeep Cut85points
- BonnytonDeep Cut85points
- BontonDeep Cut85points
- BonvilstonDeep Cut85points
- BoontonDeep Cut85points
- BootonDeep Cut85points
- BorastonDeep Cut85points
- Borden-CarletonDeep Cut85points
- BorrowstonDeep Cut85points
- BosherstonDeep Cut85points
- BossingtonDeep Cut85points
- BotchestonDeep Cut85points
- BothenhamptonDeep Cut85points
- BotonDeep Cut85points
- BottonDeep Cut85points
- BoughtonDeep Cut85points
- BoulstonDeep Cut85points
- BoultonDeep Cut85points
- BourantonDeep Cut85points
- BourtonDeep Cut85points
- BoutonDeep Cut85points
- BovertonDeep Cut85points
- BovingtonDeep Cut85points
- Bower AshtonDeep Cut85points
- Bower HintonDeep Cut85points
- BowerstonDeep Cut85points
- BowstonDeep Cut85points
- BoydtonDeep Cut85points
- BoylstonDeep Cut85points
- BoyntonDeep Cut85points
- BoytonDeep Cut85points
- BradentonDeep Cut85points
- BraffertonDeep Cut85points
- BrambletonDeep Cut85points
- BramertonDeep Cut85points
- BranchtonDeep Cut85points
- BrandesburtonDeep Cut85points
- BrandestonDeep Cut85points
- BrandistonDeep Cut85points
- BranstonDeep Cut85points
- Brant BroughtonDeep Cut85points
- BrantonDeep Cut85points
- BranxtonDeep Cut85points
- BraseltonDeep Cut85points
- BrassingtonDeep Cut85points
- BrattonDeep 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.