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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.
At the same
foam-fountain, Queequeg seemed to drink and reel with me. His dusky nostrils swelled apart; he showed his filed and pointed teeth. On, on we
flew; and our offing gained, the Moss did homage to the blast; ducked and dived her bows as a
slave before the Sultan. Sideways leaning, we sideways darted; every ropeyarn tingling like a wire; the
two tall masts buckling like Indian canes in land tornadoes. So full of this reeling
scene were we, as we stood by the plunging bowsprit, that for
some time we did not notice the jeering glances of the
passengers, a lubber-like assembly, who marvelled that two
fellow beings should be so companionable; as
though a white man
were anything more
dignified
than a whitewashed
negro. But there were
some boobies and bumpkins there, who, by
their intense greenness, must have come from the
heart and centre of all verdure. Queequeg caught one of these
young saplings mimicking him behind his back. I thought the bumpkin’s hour
of doom was come. Dropping his harpoon, the brawny savage caught him in his arms,
and by an almost miraculous dexterity and strength, sent him high up bodily into the air;
then slightly tapping his stern in mid-somerset, the fellow landed with bursting lungs upon his feet, while Queequeg, turning
his back upon him, lighted his tomahawk pipe and passed it to me for a puff.
Mob
-Dordle