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
- StratusIQDeep Cut85points
- Stream IT NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Stream NetworksDeep Cut85points
- StreamFiDeep Cut85points
- StreamlineDeep Cut85points
- STREAMtAPDeep Cut85points
- StreamtechDeep Cut85points
- StrencomDeep Cut85points
- Structured CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- STS BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- STT Rural NetDeep Cut85points
- Stubbs CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Stuff FibreDeep Cut85points
- STV (Estonia)Deep Cut85points
- SubisuDeep Cut85points
- Suburban FiberDeep Cut85points
- Succeed.NetDeep Cut85points
- Sud Telecom SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- SudatelDeep Cut85points
- Sudden CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Sugar Land Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sugar Valley Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sully Telephone AssociationDeep Cut85points
- SumicityDeep Cut85points
- Summit BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Summit CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Summit DigitalDeep Cut85points
- Summit Telephone & TelDeep Cut85points
- Sumo FibreDeep Cut85points
- SUMOFIBERDeep Cut85points
- SumtelDeep Cut85points
- Sun BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Sun CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Sun Tech NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Sunbeach CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Sunco Communication and InstallationDeep Cut85points
- Suncoast BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- SUNETDeep Cut85points
- Sunflower Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Sunlit NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Sunman Telecommunications CorporationDeep Cut85points
- SunriseDeep Cut85points
- Sunrise CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Sunset Digital CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- SunsonicDeep Cut85points
- SuntelDeep Cut85points
- SunwireDeep Cut85points
- SupanetDeep Cut85points
- SupercableDeep Cut85points
- SupercanalDeep 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.