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
- SCI BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Scio Mutual Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- SCODeep Cut85points
- ScopeSkyDeep Cut85points
- ScorchDeep Cut85points
- Scot-Tel GouldDeep Cut85points
- ScotnetDeep Cut85points
- Scott County Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Scottsboro Electric Power BoardDeep Cut85points
- Scranton Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Screaming.netDeep Cut85points
- SCS BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- SCS CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SCS-NetDeep Cut85points
- SCT BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- SCT TelecomDeep Cut85points
- SCTCDeep Cut85points
- SCTelcomDeep Cut85points
- SCTVDeep Cut85points
- SDC InternetDeep Cut85points
- SDN CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SDWISPDeep Cut85points
- SeacomDeep Cut85points
- SeaKay BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Seanet MyanmarDeep Cut85points
- Search ITDeep Cut85points
- Searsboro Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Seaside CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Seaside Wireless CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Sebago Fiber & WiFiDeep Cut85points
- SebastianDeep Cut85points
- Sebewaing Light and WaterDeep Cut85points
- SECOMDeep Cut85points
- Secom San'inDeep Cut85points
- SÉCUR01Deep Cut85points
- Secure-Server.caDeep Cut85points
- SecurenetDeep Cut85points
- SecuriteleDeep Cut85points
- SEEDNetDeep Cut85points
- SeethelightDeep Cut85points
- SegraDeep Cut85points
- SEI CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SeimitsuDeep Cut85points
- Seiontec SystemsDeep Cut85points
- Sejong TelecomDeep Cut85points
- SekatelDeep Cut85points
- SELCODeep Cut85points
- SelnetDeep Cut85points
- SempervoxDeep Cut85points
- Sempre InternetDeep 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.