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
- BrownstonDeep Cut85points
- BrowntonDeep Cut85points
- BroxtonDeep Cut85points
- BrucetonDeep Cut85points
- BruntonDeep Cut85points
- BrushtonDeep Cut85points
- BrutonDeep Cut85points
- BryanstonDeep Cut85points
- Buckhorn WestonDeep Cut85points
- Buckland NewtonDeep Cut85points
- BucktonDeep Cut85points
- Budleigh SaltertonDeep Cut85points
- BuelltonDeep Cut85points
- BuertonDeep Cut85points
- BuftonDeep Cut85points
- BuglawtonDeep Cut85points
- BükkszentmártonDeep Cut85points
- BulkingtonDeep Cut85points
- BullingtonDeep Cut85points
- BulvertonDeep Cut85points
- BuncetonDeep Cut85points
- BunctonDeep Cut85points
- BuntonDeep Cut85points
- BuritonDeep Cut85points
- Burleith-LeightonDeep Cut85points
- BurlestonDeep Cut85points
- BurltonDeep Cut85points
- BurmingtonDeep Cut85points
- BurnastonDeep Cut85points
- BurnestonDeep Cut85points
- Burnham NortonDeep Cut85points
- BurnistonDeep Cut85points
- BurntonDeep Cut85points
- BurratonDeep Cut85points
- BurreltonDeep Cut85points
- BurringtonDeep Cut85points
- BurrtonDeep Cut85points
- BurstonDeep Cut85points
- BurtonDeep Cut85points
- BurwartonDeep Cut85points
- BushtonDeep Cut85points
- BusseltonDeep Cut85points
- BustletonDeep Cut85points
- BustonDeep Cut85points
- Butler–TarkingtonDeep Cut85points
- Butlers MarstonDeep Cut85points
- ButonDeep Cut85points
- ButtertonDeep Cut85points
- ButtingtonDeep Cut85points
- BuxtonDeep 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.