Homicide At the Bridge Table

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Dealer: North
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Rubber
  1. spadeK 8 5
  2. heartK 10 7 3
  3. diamondA K 8
  4. club9 6 2
  1. spadeQ 10 3
  2. heart—
  3. diamondQ 10 6 5 3
  4. clubQ J 10 8 5
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - 1 - 2
S - - 1 - 1
E - 1 - 2 -
W 1 1 - 2 -
Green square in centre
  1. spadeA J 9 6 2
  2. heartJ 9 8 5 4 2
  3. diamond9
  4. clubK

Contract: 3NT
Declarer: South
Lead: clubQ
  1. spade7 4
  2. heartA Q 6
  3. diamondJ 7 4 2
  4. clubA 7 4 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1club* 1heart 2NT
Pass 3NT End

* playing a strong no-trump

Assuming there was nothing funny going on, declarer now had a pretty good picture of the entire layout. South played three more rounds of hearts, throwing East in. East cashed his remaining heart winner and exited with ace and another spade to dummy's bare King. Meanwhile West was finding it increasingly difficult to find discards and the second spade subjected him to the rare, and very aptly named "Homicide Criss-Cross squeeze".

This was the final end position with East about to lead a spade at trick ten.
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