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
- Optics InternetDeep Cut85points
- Optima ItaliaDeep Cut85points
- Optima TelekomDeep Cut85points
- Optimax CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- OptimERA WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Optimus CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- OptinetDeep Cut85points
- OPTK NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Optua TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Opus BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Oran Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Orange County REMCDeep Cut85points
- Orangeburg County BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- OrangeFiberDeep Cut85points
- OrangenetDeep Cut85points
- OrbitcomDeep Cut85points
- Orbitel BulgariaDeep Cut85points
- Orbitel CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- OrbithDeep Cut85points
- Orbus BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Orcas OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Orchard Farm Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- OrconDeep Cut85points
- Oregon Farmers Mutual Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Oregon Telephone CorporationDeep Cut85points
- Oregon-Idaho UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- OregonFAST.netDeep Cut85points
- OrekaDeep Cut85points
- Oricom InternetDeep Cut85points
- Oriental Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- OrigenDeep Cut85points
- Origin BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- ORION (Ontario)Deep Cut85points
- Orion TelekomDeep Cut85points
- Orion Wireless PartnershipDeep Cut85points
- Oriskany Falls Telephone CorporationDeep Cut85points
- Orizon MobileDeep Cut85points
- OrmucoDeep Cut85points
- OrtelDeep Cut85points
- Orwell Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Osage BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Osage Municipal Telecommunications UtilityDeep Cut85points
- Osakis Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Oshawa PUC ServicesDeep Cut85points
- OSHEANDeep Cut85points
- OslonettDeep Cut85points
- OsnatelDeep Cut85points
- OSNET WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Oso Internet SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- OtaroDeep 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.