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
- WorldCallDeep Cut85points
- Worldline.caDeep Cut85points
- WorldLinkDeep Cut85points
- WorldNet Puerto RicoDeep Cut85points
- WorldSpyDeep Cut85points
- WorldWebDeep Cut85points
- WorldWide AccessDeep Cut85points
- WorldxChangeDeep Cut85points
- WorxOneDeep Cut85points
- Wow PerúDeep Cut85points
- WRS Web SolutionsDeep Cut85points
- WT ServicesDeep Cut85points
- WTCDeep Cut85points
- WTC CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- WtechlinkDeep Cut85points
- WVTDeep Cut85points
- WW WorksDeep Cut85points
- WWest CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- WWZDeep Cut85points
- Wyandotte Municipal ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Wyandotte Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- WyenetDeep Cut85points
- Wyoming Mutual TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Wyoming.comDeep Cut85points
- WyyerdDeep Cut85points
- X-linkDeep Cut85points
- X-NetDeep Cut85points
- X-Press TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- X-StreamDeep Cut85points
- X1 CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- X2nSatDeep Cut85points
- XAirNetDeep Cut85points
- xBar7 CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Xenial BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- XfoneDeep Cut85points
- XiberDeep Cut85points
- Xicom Technology CanadaDeep Cut85points
- Xinflix MediaDeep Cut85points
- XIT CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- XL AxiataDeep Cut85points
- XL BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- XLNDeep Cut85points
- XMissionDeep Cut85points
- XO CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Xoom LinkDeep Cut85points
- XploreDeep Cut85points
- Xplore Net BDDeep Cut85points
- XS4ALLDeep Cut85points
- XStream ServicesDeep Cut85points
- Xstream WirelessDeep 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.