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
- Señal NacionalDeep Cut85points
- SenaWaveDeep Cut85points
- Sendai CATVDeep Cut85points
- Seneca Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- SentechDeep Cut85points
- Sentex CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SepantaDeep Cut85points
- SequorumDeep Cut85points
- SercomtelDeep Cut85points
- Sergent TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Serious TubesDeep Cut85points
- Server NorthDeep Cut85points
- ServeradoDeep Cut85points
- Service ElectricDeep Cut85points
- Service Internet Sag-Lac WimaxDeep Cut85points
- Service Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Services Télécommunications Wemotaci S.E.C.Deep Cut85points
- ServicomDeep Cut85points
- ServNet SystemsDeep Cut85points
- ServpacDeep Cut85points
- SESDeep Cut85points
- Session TelecomsDeep Cut85points
- SETARDeep Cut85points
- SETELDeep Cut85points
- Seven SkyDeep Cut85points
- SevmobileDeep Cut85points
- SEWANDeep Cut85points
- SF NetDeep Cut85points
- SferiaDeep Cut85points
- SFRDeep Cut85points
- SGO BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Shadow InternetDeep Cut85points
- Shahadot OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Shahrad NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Sharon Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sharp Space TownDeep Cut85points
- Sharq TelekomDeep Cut85points
- ShastaBeamDeep Cut85points
- ShatelDeep Cut85points
- Shawnee Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sheba BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Shebatel NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Shell Energy BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Shell Rock TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- ShentelDeep Cut85points
- Sherburne ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Sherburne County Rural Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sherwood BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Sherwood Mutual Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- Shiawassee Telephone CompanyDeep 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.