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
- Liberty BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Liberty CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Liberty LinkDeep Cut85points
- Liberty SurfDeep Cut85points
- LIBTELCODeep Cut85points
- LibyanaDeep Cut85points
- Lien Internet du Nord-OuestDeep Cut85points
- lifecellDeep Cut85points
- Ligga TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Light Link TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- LightBeam InternetDeep Cut85points
- LightBurst BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- LightGig CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Lighthouse NetworksDeep Cut85points
- LightnetDeep Cut85points
- Lightning BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Lightning FibreDeep Cut85points
- Lightning IPDeep Cut85points
- LightpathDeep Cut85points
- Lightspeed BahrainDeep Cut85points
- Lightspeed BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Lightspeed CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- LightSpeed TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- LightStreamDeep Cut85points
- Lightwave BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Lightwave CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Lightweb CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- LightwireDeep Cut85points
- Ligonier Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- LigTel CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- LilaConnectDeep Cut85points
- Lily CommsDeep Cut85points
- Limestone CablevisionDeep Cut85points
- Limitless MobileDeep Cut85points
- Lincoln County Telephone SystemDeep Cut85points
- Lincoln TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Lincoln Telephone and TelegraphDeep Cut85points
- Lincolnville TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- LineoneDeep Cut85points
- LingoDeep Cut85points
- Lingo NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Link ClubDeep Cut85points
- Link ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Link3Deep Cut85points
- liNKCityDeep Cut85points
- LinkdotNetDeep Cut85points
- LinkemDeep Cut85points
- Linknet TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- LinkserveDeep Cut85points
- LinkServiceDeep 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.