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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.
But by far the most wonderful
of all Cetacean relics was the almost complete vast skeleton of an extinct monster, found in
the year 1842, on the plantation of Judge Creagh, in Alabama. The awe-stricken credulous slaves
in the vicinity took it for the bones of one of the
fallen angels. The Alabama doctors declared it a huge reptile, and
bestowed upon it the name of Basilosaurus. But
some specimen bones of it being taken
across the sea to
Owen, the English
Anatomist,
it turned out
that this alleged reptile
was a whale, though of a departed
species. A significant illustration of the fact, again
and again repeated in this book, that the skeleton of the
whale furnishes but little clue to the shape of his fully invested
body. So Owen rechristened the monster Zeuglodon; and in his paper read before the London
Geological Society, pronounced it, in substance, one of the most extraordinary creatures which the mutations of
the globe have blotted out of existence.
Mob
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