OMBY
Free
1.2for iPhone, iPad and more
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About OMBY
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.
“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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What's New in the Latest Version 1.2
Last updated on Dec 14, 2017
Old Versions
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bug fixes and other improvements.
Bug fixes and other improvements.
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Version History
1.2
Dec 14, 2017
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Bug fixes and other improvements.
Bug fixes and other improvements.
1.0.1
Nov 12, 2015
Turn the page without waiting for blacked-out text to be revealed.
Emphasized text now set in italics. Improved typesetting of quotations.
Bug fixes and other improvements.
Emphasized text now set in italics. Improved typesetting of quotations.
Bug fixes and other improvements.
1.0
Jul 16, 2015
OMBY FAQ
Click here to learn how to download OMBY in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of OMBY.
iPhone
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 6.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 6.0 or later.
OMBY supports English