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about moby-dordle
7,000 of the words in Moby-Dick are used exactly once. Can you figure out where? Guess the chapter in which the word appears.
The game helps you zero in on the right chapter by telling you whether the chapter number you guessed was too high or too low, and eliminating chapters accordingly.
More of the surrounding paragraph is revealed after each guess. You have six guesses.
There will be a new Moby-Dordle each day.
Josh Wardle’s Wordle, John Turner’s Redactle, and Counterwave Games’s OMBY are gratefully acknowledged.
“Wall,”
said the landlord, fetching a long breath, “that’s a purty long
sarmon for a chap that rips a little
now and then. But be easy, be
easy, this here harpooneer
I have been
tellin’
you of has
just arrived from the
south seas, where he bought up a
lot of ’balmed New Zealand heads (great curios,
you know), and he’s sold all on ’em but one, and
that one he’s trying to sell to-night, cause to-morrow’s Sunday, and it would not do to be sellin’ human heads about the streets
when folks is goin’ to churches. He wanted to, last Sunday, but I stopped him just as he was goin’ out of the door with four heads strung on
a string, for all the airth like a string of inions.”
Mob
-Dordle