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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.
Thus the
whale-line folds the whole boat in its complicated coils, twisting and writhing
around it in almost every direction. All the oarsmen are involved
in its perilous contortions; so that to the
timid eye of the landsman, they seem
as Indian jugglers, with
the deadliest snakes
sportively
festooning their limbs.
Nor can any son
of mortal woman, for the first time,
seat himself amid those hempen intricacies, and while
straining his utmost at the oar, bethink him that at any
unknown instant the harpoon may be darted, and all these horrible contortions
be put in play like ringed lightnings; he cannot be thus circumstanced without a shudder that makes the very marrow in his bones to quiver in him
like a shaken jelly. Yet habit — strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish? — Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany, than you will
hear over the half-inch white cedar of the whale-boat, when thus hung in hangman’s nooses; and, like the six burghers of Calais before King Edward, the six men composing the crew pull into the jaws of death,
with a halter around every neck, as you may say.
Mob
-Dordle