[Enjay] Hobby horse (neologism)

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Author Message Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2280 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 5:46 pm:        A particular pastime of mine means that I have several zoffs. What is a zoff? Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3471 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 6:04 pm:        Is it an object? a situation? a person? The pastime - sports? something creative? something music-related? something culture-related? travelling? reading? Is it a common pastime? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2281 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 6:15 pm:        Is it an object? a situation? a person? No to all, situation is closest The pastime - sports? something creative? something music-related? something culture-related? Noish, no to others travelling? reading? Is it a common pastime? Relatively I would imagine Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3472 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 8:51 pm:        Is it an appointment? an obligation? a feeling? a privilege? Is it something you need in order to do the pastime in question? something you get from doing it? Is it more of an active pastime? or a passive one? (e.g. acting vs. watching a play) Is it done alone? in groups? indoors? outdoors? Is it a game? chess? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2284 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 10:03 pm:        Is it an appointment? an obligation? a feeling? a privilege? No to all Is it something you need in order to do the pastime in question? You don't need it but it helps once you have it something you get from doing it? Yes Is it more of an active pastime? or a passive one? (e.g. acting vs. watching a play) More active Is it done alone? Usually this in groups? Could be this indoors? {Yes} outdoors? No Is it a game? Yesish chess? No Biograd (Biograd) New member Username: Biograd Post Number: 2144 Registered: 6-2008 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 10:11 pm:        Is it a skill? a piece of knowledge (for example, there are certain words that many scrabble players have in their memory that few others do)? a membership at a particular venue? Speaking of the last one, is the pastime something indoors? outdoors? can one play it virtually anywhere? or only in places specifically built/created for the purpose? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2285 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 10:21 pm:        Is it a skill? a piece of knowledge This (for example, there are certain words that many scrabble players have in their memory that few others do) Not this, but OTRT? a membership at a particular venue? Speaking of the last one, is the pastime something indoors? Yes outdoors? No can one play it virtually anywhere? Yes or only in places specifically built/created for the purpose? No Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3474 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 11:44 pm:        Is the pastime some kind of puzzle? Is it solitaire? Do you need any equipment to do it? Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3475 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, January 29, 2013 - 11:45 pm:        Rubik's cubes? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2289 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 11:14 am:        Is the pastime some kind of puzzle? Yesish Is it solitaire? No Do you need any equipment to do it? Yes Rubik's cubes? No Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3477 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 12:18 pm:        Is it sudoko? Some other kind of number puzzle? word puzzles? logic puzzles? The equipment - a pen? paper? cards? a computer? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2290 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Wednesday, January 30, 2013 - 3:32 pm:        Is it sudoko? No Some other kind of number puzzle? No word puzzles? Noish logic puzzles? No The equipment - a pen? paper? cards? a computer? I do it on the computer, though it is possible to do it in other ways Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3484 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 12:37 pm:        When you do it on the computer, do you do it online? When it's done in other ways, is a book required? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2294 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Thursday, January 31, 2013 - 4:07 pm:        When you do it on the computer, do you do it online? Yes When it's done in other ways, is a book required? Yes, or similar printed material at least Lynne (Lynne) New member Username: Lynne Post Number: 5283 Registered: 12-2000 Posted on Sunday, February 03, 2013 - 9:45 am:        Code-breaking? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2301 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Sunday, February 03, 2013 - 9:11 pm:        Code-breaking? No Liquizt (Liquizt) New member Username: Liquizt Post Number: 950 Registered: 5-2008 Posted on Monday, February 04, 2013 - 4:49 pm:        How has this proceeded this far without someone asking: Is the pasttime lateral puzzles? :) Does the pasttime involve multiple puzzles? Do you usually collect one zoff per puzzle? Can you get more than one zoff in a puzzle? Do you always get a zoff with each puzzle? Do you get zoff's from presenting the puzzles to others? from solving puzzles presented to you? from observing others solving puzzles? from seeing the puzzle being presented and also the solution, without necessarily knowing the steps in between? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2312 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Monday, February 04, 2013 - 5:11 pm:        How has this proceeded this far without someone asking: Is the pasttime lateral puzzles? I was also wondering this...but it's not :-( Does the pasttime involve multiple puzzles? Yes Do you usually collect one zoff per puzzle? Not necessarily Can you get more than one zoff in a puzzle? Yes Do you always get a zoff with each puzzle? No Do you get zoff's from presenting the puzzles to others? No from solving puzzles presented to you? Yes from observing others solving puzzles? Could be this from seeing the puzzle being presented and also the solution, without necessarily knowing the steps in between? Could be this Just as a note - 'puzzles' is OK, but there is a slightly better word for the pastime. Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3502 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 4:51 pm:        Is a zoff a fact? a solving technique? a mnemonic? a word? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2320 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 4:57 pm:        Is a zoff a fact? This a solving technique? a mnemonic? a word? Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3504 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 5:21 pm:        Is the pastime in question some kind of quiz? Are the facts all related to the same subject? To several subjects? Are the facts the only thing you need to solve the puzzles? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2322 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 5:32 pm:        Is the pastime in question some kind of quiz? YES, the pastime is quizzes (mainly trivia type quizzes) Are the facts all related to the same subject? To several subjects? Several Are the facts the only thing you need to solve the puzzles? Yes, though not all of the facts are zoffs Doriana (Doriana) New member Username: Doriana Post Number: 3505 Registered: 12-2010 Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 5:34 pm:        Are zoffs facts that might come in handy for more than one question? or the answers to the most common questions? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2324 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, February 05, 2013 - 6:38 pm:        Are zoffs facts that might come in handy for more than one question? Usually or the answers to the most common questions? Or this Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2350 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 8:50 pm:        Hint: Biograd's guess regarding Scrabble players knowing words that others don't was on the right track. You've established that a zoff is a fact which serves as the answer to a question or questions in my hobby of trivia quizzes. There is only a little more. Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin) New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 5843 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 11:04 pm:        Pub quizzes relevant? Pubs? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2353 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Sunday, February 10, 2013 - 11:18 pm:        Pub quizzes relevant? Pubs? Pub quizzes could be relevant, in actual fact I tend to get my zoffs from online quizzes but have also got some from pub quizzes. Pubs themselves are not relevant. Galfisk (Galfisk) New member Username: Galfisk Post Number: 5285 Registered: 9-2009 Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 7:12 am:        Can you get zoffs from somewhere besides quizzes? Does the z in zoff come from the z in quiz? Do you get them by answering a quiz? By seeing someone else's answers? A zoff is one fact that can help you answer several different questions, correct? Questions about the same subject? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2363 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 10:25 am:        Can you get zoffs from somewhere besides quizzes? No Does the z in zoff come from the z in quiz? Yes, but the etymology is not straightforward here Do you get them by answering a quiz? Yes By seeing someone else's answers? Could be this A zoff is one fact that can help you answer several different questions, correct? Often but not always Questions about the same subject? Probably but not necessarily Beachbum (Beachbum) New member Username: Beachbum Post Number: 504 Registered: 2-2012 Posted on Tuesday, February 12, 2013 - 10:52 pm:        Is a zoff a fact obtained by guessing the correct answer to a quiz question, which you can then put to use if the same question is asked in another quiz? Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2372 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 12:31 am:        Is a zoff a fact obtained by guessing the correct answer to a quiz question, which you can then put to use if the same question is asked in another quiz? Yes - I think that's enough for the *****SPOILER***** A zoff is a fact which often comes up in trivia quizzes, but which I only know because it has come up in a quiz and not from discovering it in any real-world sense. For example, I could quote word for word plenty of quotes from 'classic' films I have never seen, and also tell you who starred in and directed them. I also know plenty of obscure world capitals for no other reason that they have come up repeatedly in quizzes. If anyone has the problem that they are getting too much work done, I recommend www.sporcle.com to solve that once and for all. Kayleetonkslupin (Kayleetonkslupin) New member Username: Kayleetonkslupin Post Number: 5855 Registered: 9-2010 Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 2:05 am:        Capitals, hmm? What's the capital of: 1. Luxembourg 2. Monaco 3. Andorra 4. Liechtenstein 5. San Marino 6. Azerbajian 7. Tajikstan 8. Kyrgyzstan 9. Lesotho 10. Swaziland Without Googlepedia, how many can you answer? =) Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2374 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 9:59 am:        1)Luxembourg 2)Monaco 3)Andorra La Vella 4)Vaduz 5)I'm gonna guess San Marino? 6)Baku (I know this one because the Eurovision song contest was there :p) 7)Pass 8)Bishkek 9)Pass 10)Pass Just checked and I guessed right about San Marino. Balin (Balin) New member Username: Balin Post Number: 18351 Registered: 4-2010 Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 2:28 pm:        Easy. L, M, A, L, S... wait, wrong kind of capital... Enjay (Enjay) New member Username: Enjay Post Number: 2379 Registered: 4-2007 Posted on Wednesday, February 13, 2013 - 5:10 pm:        Oh and by the way, 'zoff' is vaguely derived from the letters in 'quiz information' but I didn't want to give too much away with a standard acronym!