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
- Gazprom Space SystemsDeep Cut85points
- GBT CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- GCEC TelecomDeep Cut85points
- GCETDeep Cut85points
- GCIDeep Cut85points
- GEA ConnectDeep Cut85points
- GÉANTDeep Cut85points
- GecomsaDeep Cut85points
- GeekzyDeep Cut85points
- Geetel CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- GehuaDeep Cut85points
- GemnetDeep Cut85points
- Generation.netDeep Cut85points
- Geneseo CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Genesis EnergyDeep Cut85points
- Genesis WirelessDeep Cut85points
- Geneva On-LineDeep Cut85points
- Genex InfosysDeep Cut85points
- GEnieDeep Cut85points
- Genuine TelecomDeep Cut85points
- GenuityDeep Cut85points
- GeoLinksDeep Cut85points
- Georgetown Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Georgia Public WebDeep Cut85points
- Georgia Telephone CorporationDeep Cut85points
- Germantown Independent Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Germantown Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Germany.netDeep Cut85points
- Gervais Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Gestion d'Objects Distants CMODeep Cut85points
- Gestion ElekproDeep Cut85points
- Gestion XCDDeep Cut85points
- GetDeep Cut85points
- Get Real FiberDeep Cut85points
- Get2netDeep Cut85points
- GETESADeep Cut85points
- Getus CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Getwireless.netDeep Cut85points
- GEUSDeep Cut85points
- GG NetworkDeep Cut85points
- GGA MaurDeep Cut85points
- GGNetDeep Cut85points
- Ghana TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Ghuri InfotechDeep Cut85points
- GHz WirelessDeep Cut85points
- GiantDeep Cut85points
- Giant CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- GibfibrespeedDeep Cut85points
- GibirnetDeep Cut85points
- Gibson ConnectDeep 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.