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Dealer: East
Vuln: N-S
Scoring: IMPs
  1. spadeA 10
  2. heartA 9 8 7 4
  3. diamondA 7 4 3
  4. clubQ 5
  1. spadeK Q 9 7 5 3 2
  2. heart2
  3. diamondK 10 8 6
  4. club3
club diamond heart spade NT
N 2 - 4 - 2
S 2 - 4 - 2
E - - - 2 -
W - - - 2 -
Green square in centre
  1. spade8 4
  2. heartK 6 3
  3. diamondJ 9 5
  4. clubK 10 9 6 2

Contract: 5heart
Declarer: South
Lead: club3
  1. spadeJ 6
  2. heartQ J 10 5
  3. diamondQ 2
  4. clubA J 8 7 4
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
Pass Pass
4spade Dble* Pass 4NT~
Pass 5diamond Pass 5heart
Pass Pass Pass

* take out oriented
~ two places to play

Not easy, but either a trump or diamond will do. On a trump continuation, although South can win to play ace and another spade for an end-play, West can now play another spade to give South a ruff and discard. Declarer takes the ruff in dummy and ditches a diamond from hand, but now there are only two trumps in his hand to cope with three diamond losers. South makes the contract if West exits with a diamond.

East can beat the contract most easily at trick three by returning a diamond - now West has now end-play problems at all. But at the table .
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