OMBY

Word

Free · Designed for iPad

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.

  • 5.0
    out of 5
    12 Ratings

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    • 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.
    • 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