[Echognome]

Scoring: XIMP

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You bid to 4♠ and West leads the ♥7. You win the K as East plays the 6. You play a small spade from dummy and East shows out. Well that solves any guesses there.

You play the ♠J from hand and West plays the ♠10 and immediately the ♣A.

Director! You have the usual options. You can accept the lead, or you can reject it. If you reject the lead, the A becomes a major penalty card.

What do you do and how do you play from here on?

[inquiry]

well.. it is a penalty card... reject it... play on [ne]AQ..(until he shows out) when he throws the !C Ace, cash !CJ, cross in clubs and throw away the ♦J on ♣s

[mikeh]

You reject the lead, and immediately play on ♥. You play as many rounds as necessary to force him to pitch the ♣A, but not one more. You then cash the ♣, to pitch the ♦.

The exact play from here depends on how many ♥ he held, but game is assured if you do not get greedy, and it is possible for (more) misdefence to let an overtrick sneak through... but I wouldn't count on it

[Echognome]

Yes indeed. This will be a short thread. lol

You cash two hearts and the ♣A must be played. You then play three rounds of clubs which all hold up, while you discard a diamond. You ruff a diamond and ruff a heart and ruff a diamond and make an overtrick in the wash. Not sure if it was misdefense or not. That ♠9 is a big card when the 10 has been blown.

Anyway, well spotted Ben and Mike.