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
- City of Cartersville FiberComDeep Cut85points
- City of ChanuteDeep Cut85points
- City of CoffeyvilleDeep Cut85points
- City of ColquittDeep Cut85points
- City of DublinDeep Cut85points
- City of Faith TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- City of Griffin, GADeep Cut85points
- City of HawardenDeep Cut85points
- City of Hudson Velocity BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- City of LaGrangeDeep Cut85points
- City of LeesburgDeep Cut85points
- City of LethbridgeDeep Cut85points
- City of Monroe - Monroe AccessDeep Cut85points
- City of Norway CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- City of Pella TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- City of Poplar BluffDeep Cut85points
- City Of PrincetonDeep Cut85points
- City of WadsworthDeep Cut85points
- City OnlineDeep Cut85points
- City TelecomDeep Cut85points
- City Water Light and PowerDeep Cut85points
- City Wide CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- City WirelessDeep Cut85points
- City10 TelecomDeep Cut85points
- CitycomDeep Cut85points
- Cityless Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- CitylineDeep Cut85points
- CityLink (Wadsworth)Deep Cut85points
- Citylink CambodiaDeep Cut85points
- Citymesh ConnectDeep Cut85points
- CitynetDeep Cut85points
- CityNet AzerbaijanDeep Cut85points
- CityPlayDeep Cut85points
- CityscapeDeep Cut85points
- CityWestDeep Cut85points
- Ciudad InternetDeep Cut85points
- Civimetrix TelecomDeep Cut85points
- CIXDeep Cut85points
- CL TelDeep Cut85points
- Clara City TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- ClaranetDeep Cut85points
- Clarence TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Clarity ConferencingDeep Cut85points
- Clarity ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Clark Fork TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- ClarkNetDeep Cut85points
- Clarks TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Clarkson WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Clarksville Connected UtilitiesDeep Cut85points
- Clarksville MutualDeep 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.