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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.
Now, this plan of Queequeg’s, or rather Yojo’s, touching the selection of our craft; I did not like that plan at all. I had not a little relied upon Queequeg’s sagacity to point out the whaler best fitted to carry us and
our fortunes securely. But as all my remonstrances produced no effect upon Queequeg, I was obliged to acquiesce; and accordingly prepared to set about this business with a determined rushing sort of energy and vigor, that should quickly settle that trifling
little affair. Next morning early, leaving Queequeg shut up with Yojo in our little bedroom — for it seemed that it was some sort of Lent or Ramadan, or day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer with Queequeg
and Yojo that day; how it was I never could find out, for, though I applied myself to it several times, I never could master his liturgies and XXXIX Articles — leaving Queequeg,
then, fasting on his tomahawk pipe, and Yojo warming himself at his sacrificial fire of shavings, I sallied out among the shipping. After much prolonged sauntering
and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three ships up
for three-years’ voyages — The Devil-dam, the Tit-bit, and the Pequod.
Devil-Dam, I do not know the origin of;
Tit-bit is obvious; Pequod, you will no
doubt remember, was the
name of a
celebrated
tribe of Massachusetts
Indians; now extinct as
the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed
about the Devil-dam; from her, hopped over to
the Tit-bit; and finally, going on board the Pequod, looked around
her for a moment, and then decided that this was the very
ship for us.
Mob
-Dordle