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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.
In as calm, but rapid a manner as possible,
I gave her to understand the whole case. Unconsciously clapping the vinegar-cruet to one side of her nose, she ruminated for an instant; then exclaimed — “No! I haven’t seen it since I
put it there.” Running to a little closet under the landing of the stairs, she glanced in, and returning, told me that Queequeg’s harpoon was missing. “He’s killed himself,”
she cried. “It’s unfort’nate Stiggs done over again — there goes another counterpane — God pity his poor mother! — it will be the ruin
of my house. Has the poor lad a sister? Where’s that girl? — there, Betty, go to Snarles the Painter, and
tell him to paint me a sign, with — “no suicides permitted here, and no smoking in
the parlor;” — might as well kill both
birds at once. Kill?
The Lord be
merciful
to his ghost!
What’s that noise there?
You, young man, avast there!”
Mob
-Dordle