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
- Skynet (Poland)Deep Cut85points
- Skynet Broadband (Minnesota)Deep Cut85points
- Skynet Broadband (Washington)Deep Cut85points
- Skynet Broadband ServiceDeep Cut85points
- Skynet ChowmuhaniDeep Cut85points
- Skynet Communications (Kentucky)Deep Cut85points
- Skynet Communications (Montana)Deep Cut85points
- Skynet Communications (Texas)Deep Cut85points
- Skynet CountryDeep Cut85points
- SkyNet MyanmarDeep Cut85points
- Skynet TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Skynet Wireless PuertoRicoDeep Cut85points
- SkyNet360Deep Cut85points
- SkypacketDeep Cut85points
- Skype WiFiDeep Cut85points
- SkyRider CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SkyriverDeep Cut85points
- SkyrunnerDeep Cut85points
- SkytelDeep Cut85points
- Skyview OnlineDeep Cut85points
- SkyVisionDeep Cut85points
- Skywave WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Skyway WestDeep Cut85points
- SkyWeb NetworksDeep Cut85points
- SkyWire (South Africa)Deep Cut85points
- Skywire NetworksDeep Cut85points
- SkyWirezDeep Cut85points
- SlamhangDeep Cut85points
- Sledge Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sleek TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Sleepy Eye Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Slic Network SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- SlingshotDeep Cut85points
- Slopeside InternetDeep Cut85points
- Slovak TelekomDeep Cut85points
- SlovanetDeep Cut85points
- SLTDeep Cut85points
- SlyTelDeep Cut85points
- Smallworld CableDeep Cut85points
- Smart AxiataDeep Cut85points
- Smart Choice CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Smart City TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Smart CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Smart Community InitiativeDeep Cut85points
- Smart TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Smart Way CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SmartairaDeep Cut85points
- SmartBurstDeep Cut85points
- SmartCom TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- SmarterBroadbandDeep 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.