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
- Home TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Home Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Home Telephone Company of PittsboroDeep Cut85points
- Home Telephone Company-St. JacobDeep Cut85points
- Home Town NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Home UnityDeep Cut85points
- Home-ConnectDeep Cut85points
- HomechoiceDeep Cut85points
- HomeTelDeep Cut85points
- Hometown InternetDeep Cut85points
- HomeWorks Tri-County Electric CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- HondutelDeep Cut85points
- Honest NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Hong Kong SupernetDeep Cut85points
- Hood Canal CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hood River Electric CooperativeDeep Cut85points
- HookUp CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hoopa Valley Public Utilities DistrictDeep Cut85points
- Hooper Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Hoosier BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Hope Water & LightDeep Cut85points
- Hopi TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Hopkinsville Electric SystemDeep Cut85points
- Hopper TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Horizon BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Horizon Cable TVDeep Cut85points
- Horizon Internet ServicesDeep Cut85points
- HormuudDeep Cut85points
- Hornitos Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Horton's InternetDeep Cut85points
- Hospers Telephone ExchangeDeep Cut85points
- Hospitality WirelessDeep Cut85points
- HOTDeep Cut85points
- Hot Springs TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- HotShot UnlimitedDeep Cut85points
- HotSpot Wireless InternetDeep Cut85points
- Howard County Fiber NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Hoyos ConsultingDeep Cut85points
- HPAZNETDeep Cut85points
- HRC TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- HRcomDeep Cut85points
- HRECDeep Cut85points
- HringduDeep Cut85points
- HringiðanDeep Cut85points
- Hrvatski TelekomDeep Cut85points
- hSoDeep Cut85points
- HT EronetDeep Cut85points
- HTCDeep Cut85points
- htpDeep Cut85points
- HTS 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.