Recorded answers
8,187 recorded answers
How to approach it
Memory does the work here rather than deduction, so sweep the whole market instead of chasing a riddle. Any company that has ever sold a connection, whether a modem, a fibre line or a SIM card, deserves a place on your list. Begin with a couple of household giants to get moving, then deliberately leave them behind. Walk the alphabet in blocks, since the underlying register is enormous and sorted, and odd initials still hide real entries. Think of municipal utilities, member-owned cooperatives, campus research networks, wireless outfits covering a single valley, and carriers selling only mobile plans. Defunct dial-up brands and merged labels count as well, and every continent appears somewhere in the register. Keep writing until nothing else surfaces, because volume, not fame, is what pays.
Get a hint
Start from the names printed on advertising hoardings and monthly bills, then deliberately move away from them towards the rest of the market.
A little more
Much of the register consists of small regional outfits: member-owned cooperatives, municipal utilities and wireless providers covering a single county or valley.
One step further
The list spans every continent and runs alphabetically to the last letter, so niche local carriers, long-dead dial-up brands and mobile-only operators all qualify.
Reveal answers 8,187
- OgeroDeep Cut85points
- OgiDeep Cut85points
- Ohio TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Ohio Transparent TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Ohio.NetDeep Cut85points
- OHS BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- OiDeep Cut85points
- OisterDeep Cut85points
- Oita Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Okanogan PUDDeep Cut85points
- Okinawa Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Okinawa TelemessageDeep Cut85points
- Oklahoma Communication SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Oklahoma FiberDeep Cut85points
- Oklahoma Telephone & TelegraphDeep Cut85points
- Oklahoma Western Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Oklatel CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- OléaneDeep Cut85points
- OliloDeep Cut85points
- Olin Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Olinger IT SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- OloDeep Cut85points
- OlocomDeep Cut85points
- OmantelDeep Cut85points
- Omega 1Deep Cut85points
- Omni FiberDeep Cut85points
- Omni WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Omnipoint TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- OmnispringDeep Cut85points
- OmniTEC WirelessDeep Cut85points
- OmniTel CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- OmniyaDeep Cut85points
- OmsoftDeep Cut85points
- On TelecomsDeep Cut85points
- On-Ramp IndianaDeep Cut85points
- On.netDeep Cut85points
- Onatel BurundiDeep Cut85points
- One (Hungary)Deep Cut85points
- One AlbaniaDeep Cut85points
- ONE BurbankDeep Cut85points
- One CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- One Communications (US)Deep Cut85points
- One Mile TelecomsDeep Cut85points
- One MontenegroDeep Cut85points
- One NZDeep Cut85points
- One Ring NetworksDeep Cut85points
- One Sky CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- OnebillDeep Cut85points
- OneCallDeep Cut85points
- OnecomDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Payout follows agreement, so the more entrants who type the same name, the smaller the reward becomes. A lone novelty entry, The World (ISP), collected the full 100 points, while the bulk of accepted answers settled at 85 and a thinner 60-point band caught names that plenty of players reached for at once. Everything in that middle tier, from 012 Smile and 019 Mobile to 1&1, 4fast.net and 123NET, sat on the record yet was shared by comparatively few people, which is why it paid close to the ceiling. Obscurity therefore beats fame: household brands that anyone can type within seconds bunch together near the bottom, whereas a carrier only a few hundred people could recall still earns almost full marks. Digit-led labels are unusually productive here, since whole stretches of the register are alphabetised that way and hardly anybody thinks to try them. Patient recall across the entire alphabet, instead of the first famous provider that springs to mind, separates the top band from the rest.