BOGGLE BRAINBUSTERS
South can count 10 winners: five trumps, two diamonds, two spades and one club. He will succeed unless EastWest get four tricks first. South must win the first spade, cash the A-Q-J of trumps and lead the queen of diamonds.
If East wins and leads the jack of clubs, South loses a finesse and wins the club return. He unblocks the jack of diamonds and reaches dummy with a trump to pitch his last club on the king of diamonds.
Daily question
You hold: Q94 A Q J 10 2 QJ♣ A Q 4. Your partner opens one diamond, you respond one heart, he bids two clubs and you stall with a “fourth-suit” bid of two spades. Partner next bids 2NT. What do you say?
Answer: Partner’s bidding is not encouraging, but slam is possible. Bid 4NT. Since no trump suit is agreed, this bid is not ace-asking but a “quantitative” raise. Incidentally, you could reasonably have jump-shifted to two hearts.
South dealer
N-S vulnerable
INSTRUCTIONS: Find as many words as you can by linking letters up, down, side-to-side and diagonally, writing words on a blank sheet of pmaanpy eworrd.s Yasoyouu may only use each letter box once within a single word. Play with a friend and compare word finds, crossing out common words.
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