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
- Tiger Global Network & CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- Tigers-net.comDeep Cut85points
- TigoDeep Cut85points
- TikiTiki InternetDeep Cut85points
- TikonaDeep Cut85points
- Tilson BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- TIMDeep Cut85points
- Timber Net CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TIMEDeep Cut85points
- Time TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- TimicoDeep Cut85points
- Timor TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Tincans Wireless InternetDeep Cut85points
- TingDeep Cut85points
- Tiny OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Tipton Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- TISDDeep Cut85points
- TishknetDeep Cut85points
- Tishomingo ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Tista Online NetDeep Cut85points
- Titonka-Burt CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- TizetiDeep Cut85points
- TK NetworksDeep Cut85points
- TK TelekomDeep Cut85points
- TKS Internet ServiceDeep Cut85points
- TmcelDeep Cut85points
- TMLP OnlineDeep Cut85points
- TMUDeep Cut85points
- TNC WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Tnet Broadband InternetDeep Cut85points
- TNEXT CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- TNG StadtnetzDeep Cut85points
- TNMDeep Cut85points
- TNPDeep Cut85points
- TNS PlusDeep Cut85points
- TOAST.netDeep Cut85points
- Today CommunicationDeep Cut85points
- TOGOCOMDeep Cut85points
- Tohono O'odham Utility AuthorityDeep Cut85points
- Tokai Network ClubDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo Bay NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo Cable NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo InternetDeep Cut85points
- Tokyo Metallic CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Toledo Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- ToledoTelDeep Cut85points
- Tomato WebDeep Cut85points
- Tombigbee FiberDeep Cut85points
- TomtelDeep Cut85points
- Tonami Satellite TVDeep 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.