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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