Crafty Perpetration

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Dealer: South
Vuln: Game All
Scoring: Pairs
  1. spadeA 4
  2. heartA K 4 2
  3. diamond10 9 3 2
  4. club7 6 2
  1. spadeJ 5
  2. heart9 6 5
  3. diamondA 8 4
  4. clubA Q J 9 8
club diamond heart spade NT
N - - - 2 -
S - - - 2 3
E 1 1 2 - -
W 1 1 2 - -
Green square in centre
  1. spade8 3
  2. heartQ J 10 7 3
  3. diamondK 7 6 5
  4. club5 4

Contract: 4spade
Declarer: South
Lead: heart6
  1. spadeK Q 10 9 7 6 2
  2. heart8
  3. diamondQ J
  4. clubK 10 3
Double dummy analyser: makeable contracts
West North East South
1spade
2club 2diamond* Pass 2spade
Pass 3spade Pass 4spade
Pass Pass Pass

* not a bid for today!

Partner has not done you any favours by failing to fly in with diamondK, and to beat this contract you must avoid the seemingly obvious heart continuation. A club will be no good either, but a trump or another diamond will be OK.

When West continued hearts at the table declarer won with the king pitching diamondJ from hand. Playing diamond10 from dummy, declarer ruffed East's diamondK, drew two rounds of trumps ending in dummy and cashed diamond9 for her tenth trick. This crafty piece of deception was perpetrated by Rixi Markus.
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