OMBY
Word
Free · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Discover the weird beauty of the language in Moby-Dick with OMBY, a new kind of word-puzzle game based on Herman Melville’s classic novel.
“OMBY is like a friend who accompanies me to the Louvre and keeps me from striding past a hundred unfamiliar masterworks on my way to see the ones I already know. In the Louvre, though, the art is already on the wall. OMBY lets me co-create Moby-Dick’s unfamiliar ingenuities, searching like Melville for the right words, massaging the letters into something meaningful.” ---Tim Cassedy (Avidly, Los Angeles Review of Books)
Playing OMBY, you’ll unscramble sets of 1x2 domino word tiles containing portions of text that have been blacked-out, as if by a censor's pen. As you solve each puzzle, the blacked-out text is revealed. Pause periodically to savor the completed paragraphs.
Finish all 10,395 puzzles and you will have read the complete text of Moby Dick! Page-by-page, chapter-by-chapter, an epic voyage of puzzle solving and classic literature awaits you!
Reviews:
***** Genius! - A wonderful tribute/brain teaser to the great American novel.
***** Great fun - An idea that might on hearing it sound silly or complicated but is in execution a metric ton of fun.
***** Best - Best game ever. The world needs this.
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Information
- Seller
- Greg Whitehead (Apps)
- Size
- 23.3 MB
- Category
- Word
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 6.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 6.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Profanity or Crude Humor
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © Counterwave, Inc. 2015