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What do you call a 10-card suit?
#1
Posted 2014-May-09, 12:17
Sorry to poach this from someone else, but it was too good not to share...
#2
Posted 2014-May-09, 13:16
Love the 3H bid
Psych (pron. saik): A gross and deliberate misstatement of honour strength and/or suit length. Expressly permitted under Law 73E but forbidden contrary to that law by Acol club tourneys.
Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. mstr-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees.
"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. mstr-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees.
"Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
#3
Posted 2014-October-22, 13:59
Ok, so this one's only a 9-card suit, and maybe I contributed to North's confusion...
#5
Posted 2014-October-23, 12:13
Sad, the damn things are so obsessed with point count that it can't see that it can make 5D in its own hand.
#6
Posted 2014-October-24, 20:00
iandayre, on 2014-October-23, 12:13, said:
Sad, the damn things are so obsessed with point count that it can't see that it can make 5D in its own hand.
Not at all. GIB E decided to take the smallest possible minus. Otherwise the auction would conclude,
3[hearts] Double 4[diamonds] 4[hearts] 5[diamonds] 5[hearts] 6[diamonds] 6[hearts] 7[diamonds] 7[hearts] 8[diamonds]
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