Krillion 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
- MELOTELDeep Cut85points
- Melrose Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Memory Lane Computer ElectronicsDeep Cut85points
- MenatelecomDeep Cut85points
- Mendocino Community NetworkDeep Cut85points
- MEODeep Cut85points
- Mercantile CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Merchants & Farmers TelephoneDeep Cut85points
- Mercury BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Mercury FiberDeep Cut85points
- Mercury NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Mercury NZDeep Cut85points
- Mercury Wireless IndianaDeep Cut85points
- Meridian BroadbandDeep Cut85points
- Meriplex CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Merit NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Meriwether Lewis ConnectDeep Cut85points
- Merrimack County Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- MerulaDeep Cut85points
- Mescalero Apache TelecomDeep Cut85points
- MetaLINK TechnologiesDeep Cut85points
- Metamora Telephone CompanyDeep Cut85points
- Meteor TelecommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- MetfoneDeep Cut85points
- MethownetDeep Cut85points
- Metro CommunicationsDeep Cut85points
- Metro FastNetDeep Cut85points
- Metro TelecomDeep Cut85points
- Metro WirelessDeep Cut85points
- MetroCastDeep Cut85points
- MetroFiDeep Cut85points
- MetroNet BangladeshDeep Cut85points
- Metronet TelekomunikacijeDeep Cut85points
- Metrópolis IntercomDeep Cut85points
- Metropolitan Telecommunications of CanadaDeep Cut85points
- Metropolitan Unified Fiber NetworkDeep Cut85points
- MetrotelDeep Cut85points
- MetroWiredDeep Cut85points
- MetTelDeep Cut85points
- MezonDeep Cut85points
- MGTSDeep Cut85points
- MGWDeep Cut85points
- MhnetDeep Cut85points
- MHO NetworksDeep Cut85points
- MHTCDeep Cut85points
- Mi FibraDeep Cut85points
- MI InternetDeep Cut85points
- MI-ConnectionDeep Cut85points
- Mi-FiberDeep Cut85points
- Mi'kmaw Kina'matneweyDeep 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.