[PFormaini]

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1. West leads a spade. East ruffs and South overruffs.
2. South ruffs a Heart in dummy.
3. South leads spades from dummy and hearts from hand twice more, East being overruffed twice along the way on spade leads.

All trumps in the North, East, and South hands are now gone. South has won 6 tricks.

4. A Spade is led from dummy. East and South pitch high diamonds. West ruffs. 1 trick

5. West cashes his other 3 high trumps. East and South pitch their remaining high diamonds. 4 tricks.

6. West cashes his diamonds from the top.

7 tricks total for West.

Thanks to Nick Straguzzi - author of the infamous 'Cthonic" stories in Bridge World magazine - for this gem! March 2006 - Page 78.

UPDATE: Congratulations to nigel for submitting the correct solution less than 24 hours after the puzzle was posted!1 Good job!!

[ynrobinson]

Thanks. A fascinating puzzle. I had roughly the right layout of cards at one stage but the wrong sequence of play.

[Fluffy]

cayuga man, I think there is something on the rules against opening 2 accounts be careful or you might lose all