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You'll need to seeing through the backs of the cards to get this one right. After losing the firest four tricks you decide to play low from dummy and East's J forces your ace. The choices are now
a) cash clubs, hoping that J comes down and leaving you to find Q with a finesse or / squeeze
b) find Q immediately and cash four diamonds hoping for a favourable club position or a black suit squeeze.

At the table declarer adopted the first alternative and went down. East's diabolical 6 threw South from the winning line of K, back to A to cash two more diamonds, the last of which squeezes East in the black suits. East did well, for to discard a spade at trick four would be less misleading for declarer.

Incidentally, if I had closed my eyes and rebid 1NT then we would probably still have reached this foul contract, but East would have been left with a horrible lead.
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