| Fork Strip | |||||||||||||
| ♠ | 5 | 2 | |||||||||||
| ♥ | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ♦ | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ♣ | 5 | ||||||||||||
| ♠ | K | 6 | 3 | ♠ | 9 | 8 | |||||||
| ♥ | K | ♥ | 9 | ||||||||||
| ♦ | A | ♦ | 9 | ||||||||||
| ♣ | - | ♣ | 9 | ||||||||||
| ♠ | A | Q | |||||||||||
| ♥ | A | ||||||||||||
| ♦ | 3 | ||||||||||||
| ♣ | A | ||||||||||||
| Contract is no trump. South to lead. Win 4 tricks. | |||||||||||||
| Solution: This is really an easy one but tough to find single dummy. Start with the ♥A followed by the ♦3. West has no choice but to win this second trick and having been stripped of all other cards is forced to return a spade into your ♠AQ tenace. It is only now that you can cash your ♣A. If you were to cash it earlier West could discard the ♦A and escape the endplay. | |||||||||||||