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
- Lynx LebanonDeep Cut85points
- Lynx WVDeep Cut85points
- Lynxx NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Lyons CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- LyttonnetDeep Cut85points
- M-22 Internet ProjectDeep Cut85points
- M-BudgetDeep Cut85points
- M-netDeep Cut85points
- M-Pulse FiberDeep Cut85points
- m:telDeep Cut85points
- M. Inc.Deep Cut85points
- M.D Soft TechnologyDeep Cut85points
- M.H BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- M&H CompanyDeep Cut85points
- M1Deep Cut85points
- M2 MachMediaDeep Cut85points
- M2 nGageDeep Cut85points
- M2 TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- M247Deep Cut85points
- M2X CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- M3COMDeep Cut85points
- M6netDeep Cut85points
- M8trix5 OpportunityDeep Cut85points
- Mabel Cooperative TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Macquarie TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Mada Al-ArabDeep Cut85points
- Mada CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- MadaratDeep Cut85points
- MadasafishDeep Cut85points
- Madelia Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Madison CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Madison County TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Madison Gigabit InternetDeep Cut85points
- Madrone BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Magazine TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Mage NetworksDeep Cut85points
- MagentaDeep Cut85points
- MagicnetDeep Cut85points
- Magma CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Magna5Deep Cut85points
- Magnet NetworksDeep Cut85points
- Magnolia Road Internet CoopDeep Cut85points
- MagtiDeep Cut85points
- Magyar TelekomDeep Cut85points
- Mahanoy & Mahantongo Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Mahaska Communication GroupDeep Cut85points
- Maijdee SupernetDeep Cut85points
- Maingau EnergieDeep Cut85points
- MainOneDeep Cut85points
- Mainstay CommunicationsDeep 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.