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
- BOLT FiberDeep Cut85points
- Bolt InternetDeep Cut85points
- Bolt Super 4GDeep Cut85points
- bOnlineDeep Cut85points
- Bonnechere CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Boot State TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Border to Border CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Borderlink BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Borders OnlineDeep Cut85points
- Borealis BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- BoreNetDeep Cut85points
- BornfiberDeep Cut85points
- Borusan TelekomDeep Cut85points
- Boston CitiNetDeep Cut85points
- BostreamDeep Cut85points
- Bot-Tola Cyber NetDeep Cut85points
- Botnia Internet ProviderDeep Cut85points
- Botswana Telecommunications CorporationDeep Cut85points
- Boundless NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Bountiful FiberDeep Cut85points
- Bouygues TelecomDeep Cut85points
- BowieNetDeep Cut85points
- Box BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Boxer (Sweden)Deep Cut85points
- Boxx TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- BoycomDeep Cut85points
- BPS TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Bra BredbandDeep Cut85points
- BRACNetDeep Cut85points
- Bradford BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- BragatelDeep Cut85points
- Brain NETDeep Cut85points
- Brand X InternetDeep Cut85points
- Brandenburg TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Brant Municipal EnterprisesDeep Cut85points
- Brant TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Brantley TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Brasil TecParDeep Cut85points
- Bravado WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Bravo BredbandDeep Cut85points
- Bravo TelecomDeep Cut85points
- BrawBandDeep Cut85points
- Brazoria Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Brazos CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Brazos Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Brazos WiFiDeep Cut85points
- BreatheDeep Cut85points
- breckOnlineDeep Cut85points
- Breda Telephone CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- Bredband i KristianstadDeep 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.