×
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, this carpenter
was prepared at all points, and alike indifferent and without respect in all. Teeth he accounted bits of ivory; heads he deemed but top-blocks;
men themselves he lightly held for capstans. But while now upon so wide a field thus variously accomplished and with such liveliness of
expertness in him, too; all this would seem to argue some uncommon vivacity of intelligence. But not precisely so. For
nothing was this man more remarkable, than for a certain impersonal stolidity as it were; impersonal, I say; for
it so shaded off into the surrounding infinite of things, that it seemed one with the
general stolidity discernible in the whole visible world; which while pauselessly active in uncounted modes,
still eternally holds its peace, and ignores you, though you dig foundations
for cathedrals. Yet was this half-horrible stolidity in him, involving, too,
as it appeared, an all-ramifying heartlessness; — yet
was it oddly dashed at times, with
an old, crutch-like, antediluvian,
wheezing humorousness, not
unstreaked
now and then
with a certain grizzled
wittiness; such as might have served to
pass the time during the midnight watch on
the bearded forecastle of Noah’s ark. Was it that this old
carpenter had been a life-long wanderer, whose much rolling, to and fro,
not only had gathered no moss; but what is more, had rubbed off whatever small
outward clingings might have originally pertained to him? He was a stript abstract; an unfractioned integral;
uncompromised as a new-born babe; living without premeditated reference to this world or the next. You might almost say,
that this strange uncompromisedness in him involved a sort of unintelligence; for in his numerous trades, he did not seem
to work so much by reason or by instinct, or simply because he had been tutored to it, or by any intermixture of
all these, even or uneven; but merely by a kind of deaf and dumb, spontaneous literal process. He was a pure manipulator; his brain,
if he had ever had one, must have early oozed along into the muscles of his fingers. He was like one of those unreasoning but still highly useful, multum in parvo, Sheffield contrivances, assuming the exterior — though a little swelled — of a common pocket knife; but containing, not
only blades of various sizes, but also screw-drivers, cork-screws, tweezers, awls, pens, rulers, nail-filers, countersinkers. So, if his superiors wanted to use the carpenter for a screw-driver, all they had to do was to open that part of him, and the screw was fast: or if for tweezers, take him up by the legs, and there they
were.
Mob
-Dordle