Some of the answers sent in.

• Would take losing finesse. On the basis As south i would lead a spade from 3 to the k as often if not more often than i would from 3 small. If have 2 or 1 spades without the k the contract is doomed to fail. if i have 3 spades the odds of me holding the k are greater than not holding the k. Therefor the odds favour taking the finesse.

• shoot partner

• I would duck it. If there was a way of getting rid of the heart loser I may have put up the Ace and try to avoid the Heart loser. Without that option it comes down to whether the lead is from K 7 6 or 7 6 3. Personally I would either lead the 3 or 7 from the latter. Either way K 7 6 is more likely.

• ON lead, I would play Ace , then pull trumps, Discard 2 hearts on winning diamond, then claim

• I assume 4NT was KCB. If S held say Kxx (or Kx) spades he could be fairly sure the Ace is on his left as E (i assume) has shown 2 key cards +QS. As W knows he doesnt hold Qs or Ks himself he must have AJ, hence S may lead a trump to put declarer off the finesse.

• Both the bidding and opening lead look a bit suspect to me! As to the play I would run the spade and go 1-down.

Thank you to those who put in the effort.

Take AK of hearts, run off AKQ of clubs, taking care to drop one of the diamond honours (to keep a small diamond to get back to the Q), rough a club (same number of trumps as S) small diamond back to the Q D and run clubs until the inevitable result.
(D.T.)

A slight improvement I think is after cashing AK of heats is to ruff a club immediately and return to the Q of diamonds and then run the clubs, to stop South pitching his singleton diamond on the 4^th club (catering for a 5413 shape.) (G.C.)

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