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Answer to 2010 O-Week Double Dummy Problem #3

Contract:	5D
Declarer:	South
Lead:	CA

	North
	---
	---
West	65	East
Q	5	104
Q		---
---	South	10
J	J	---
	J
	A
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Problem #1

Problem #2

Problem #3


NORTH/SOUTH must make 11 tricks against the best defence with no trumps.

West wins the CA, CK and continues with the CJ. Over to you...

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The CQ must be played at trick 3. Let's say East ruffs, forcing South to overruff. Now cash the HA, HK, cross back to the South hand with another trump to ruff out another heart. Cash in the SA and SK and then play off the rest of the trumps in the South hand. On the last trumps West is squeezed in three suits.

If East discards instead of ruffing at trick 3 South discards a heart. After cashing the HA, HK, SA and SK, the run of trumps produces the same ending.