Playing A Jeff / Geoff

[davidanthony]

If someone either mistakenly or deliberately say lays a domino which has the wrong number of spots compared to the one on the table it is being played against, the term " he has played a Jeff" is often used. Does anyone know the origin of this term ? Not sure of the spelling of Jeff !

[Old_Geezer]

Maybe you have a local player of that name who used to do it a lot ?

[Quizmonster]

Jeff is an old term from printing, referring to gambling with rectangular pieces in much the same way as dice. That is, in effect, what a domino-player is doing when he plays a wrong tile...ie having a wild stab at a result.

[davidanthony]

QM, I like the idea, thanx
Old Geezer, they all seem to do it in our local and they are not all called Jeff. Thanx anyway!

[BlackadderV]

Probably not applicable here, but in university rhyming slang a Geoff (Hurst) was a first class degree, a Desmond (Tutu) was a lower second and a Richard (The Third) is self-explanatory. Don't know if there was ever an expression for a 2:1.

[Quizmonster]

It seems that a 2.1 might be called an Attila (the Hun/One).