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
- QuicksilverDeep Cut85points
- QuickStream InternetDeep Cut85points
- Quincy Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- QuintillionDeep Cut85points
- QX.netDeep Cut85points
- QXC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- R CableDeep Cut85points
- RAA Data ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Raajje OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Racctel+Deep Cut85points
- Race CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Race OnlineDeep Cut85points
- RackNineDeep Cut85points
- RACSADeep Cut85points
- Radcliffe TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Rade SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Radiant Communications SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Radical TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Radio Link InternetDeep Cut85points
- Radio WireDeep Cut85points
- RadioFibreDeep Cut85points
- Radisson TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Radius TelecomsDeep Cut85points
- RadnetDeep Cut85points
- Rafin SatelliteDeep Cut85points
- Ragland TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- RahaDeep Cut85points
- RahanetDeep Cut85points
- RAILCONNEXXDeep Cut85points
- RailTelDeep Cut85points
- RainDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Raincoast NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Rainier ConnectDeep Cut85points
- RainWareDeep Cut85points
- Rainy Day InternetDeep Cut85points
- Raiyan's ISP SolutionDeep Cut85points
- Rajor Online CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Rakuten MobileDeep Cut85points
- Ralls TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Rally Enterprises & CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Rally InternetDeep Cut85points
- Ramdia OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Rami LevyDeep Cut85points
- RANA TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Ranch WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Ranch WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Rancho Cucamonga Municipal BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Randolph Telephone MembershipDeep 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.