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
- Oneida County Rural Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Oneida Telephone ExchangeDeep Cut85points
- OneLink CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- OneMain.comDeep Cut85points
- OnemaxDeep Cut85points
- OneSource CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- OnestreamDeep Cut85points
- OneTelDeep Cut85points
- Onetone TelecomDeep Cut85points
- OniDeep Cut85points
- Oni VisionDeep Cut85points
- OnitiDeep Cut85points
- Online.nlDeep Cut85points
- OnlyDeep Cut85points
- ONODeep Cut85points
- Onse TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Onslow Cooperative Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- OnSwitchDeep Cut85points
- Ontario & Trumansburg Telephone CompaniesDeep Cut85points
- Ontario High SpeedDeep Cut85points
- OnteraDeep Cut85points
- Ontonagon County Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- OnwardDeep Cut85points
- OnX Enterprise SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- OoredooDeep Cut85points
- Open Air WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Open BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Open Concept InternetDeep Cut85points
- Open InfraDeep Cut85points
- Open Link CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Open Range CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Open Systems GroupDeep Cut85points
- Open WirelessDeep Cut85points
- OpenBandDeep Cut85points
- OpenCapeDeep Cut85points
- OpenfaceDeep Cut85points
- OpenFibreDeep Cut85points
- OpenIPDeep Cut85points
- OpennetDeep Cut85points
- OpentelDeep Cut85points
- OpenwavexDeep Cut85points
- OpenWebDeep Cut85points
- OpiousDeep Cut85points
- OPLINDeep Cut85points
- OPQ NetDeep Cut85points
- OptaNetDeep Cut85points
- Optic CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Optic LoopDeep Cut85points
- OpticalTelDeep Cut85points
- Optico FiberDeep 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.