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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.
“I
own thy speechless, placeless power; said I not so? Nor was it wrung from me; nor do I now drop these links. Thou canst blind; but I can then grope. Thou canst consume; but I can then be ashes. Take the homage of these poor
eyes, and shutter-hands. I would not take it. The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eye-balls ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground. Oh, oh! Yet blindfold, yet will I talk to
thee. Light though thou be, thou leapest out of darkness; but I am darkness leaping out of light, leaping out of thee! The javelins cease; open eyes; see, or not? There burn the flames! Oh, thou magnanimous!
now I do glory in my genealogy. But thou art but my fiery father; my sweet mother, I know not. Oh, cruel! what hast thou done with her? There
lies my puzzle; but thine is greater. Thou knowest not how came ye, hence callest
thyself unbegotten; certainly knowest not thy beginning, hence callest thyself unbegun. I
know that of me, which thou knowest not of thyself, oh,
thou omnipotent. There is some unsuffusing thing beyond
thee, thou clear spirit, to whom all
thy eternity is but
time, all thy
creativeness
mechanical. Through thee,
thy flaming self, my
scorched eyes do dimly see it. Oh,
thou foundling fire, thou hermit immemorial, thou too
hast thy incommunicable riddle, thy unparticipated grief. Here again with haughty
agony, I read my sire. Leap! leap up, and lick the sky!
I leap with thee; I burn with thee; would fain be welded with thee; defyingly
I worship thee!”
Mob
-Dordle