Krillion 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
- Telecable MexicoDeep Cut85points
- Telecast CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TelecelDeep Cut85points
- TelecentroDeep Cut85points
- TeleChoiceDeep Cut85points
- Telecom ArgentinaDeep Cut85points
- Telecom CambodiaDeep Cut85points
- Telecom EgyptDeep Cut85points
- Telecom EngineeringDeep Cut85points
- Telecom FijiDeep Cut85points
- Telecom Italia SparkleDeep Cut85points
- Telecom NamibiaDeep Cut85points
- Telecom NiueDeep Cut85points
- Telecom OptionsDeep Cut85points
- Telecom SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- Telecom TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- Telecom VanuatuDeep Cut85points
- Telecom WestDeep Cut85points
- Télécommunication Carl VerreaultDeep Cut85points
- Telecommunication Company of IranDeep Cut85points
- Télécommunication MercyDeep Cut85points
- Télécommunications XittelDeep Cut85points
- Telecommunications YaalDeep Cut85points
- TeledataDeep Cut85points
- Télédiffusion d'AlgérieDeep Cut85points
- Télédistribution AmosDeep Cut85points
- Telefonia DialogDeep Cut85points
- Telefónica del SurDeep Cut85points
- Telefonica USADeep Cut85points
- Telegia CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TeleglobeDeep Cut85points
- Telehop AgenciesDeep Cut85points
- TelekabelDeep Cut85points
- Telekom RomaniaDeep Cut85points
- Telekom SlovenijeDeep Cut85points
- Telekom SrbijaDeep Cut85points
- TelEmDeep Cut85points
- TelemachDeep Cut85points
- TelemediaDeep Cut85points
- Telenap CanadaDeep Cut85points
- Telenational CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TelenetDeep Cut85points
- Télénet InformatiqueDeep Cut85points
- TelenexDeep Cut85points
- TelenorDeep Cut85points
- TelenordDeep Cut85points
- TelenordiaDeep Cut85points
- TelepathDeep Cut85points
- Telephone AssociatesDeep Cut85points
- Téléphone de St-ÉphremDeep 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.