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It looked like South had Q so West put in jack from dummy hoping to draw trumps and concede a diamond, but South threw a club on A. This is one of those strange little hands where you have two losers but one disappears without doing anything clever. A, ruff a club, run K through North - who is known to have A - unless South has perpetrated a brilliance, when he deserves to defeat you. After ruffing North's A you ruff a second club cash 8 and K. Ten tricks.

If North continues with a low diamond at trick five, declarer must ruff with the jack, cash A and proceed on cross-ruff lines as before, but North should have led a spade originally - declarer has very little realistic chance on repeated spade leads.
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