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Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. Solution is by trial and error. GD QGZKLY YLLQL ULYL WGQGVGZK DEQPGRZ QPRU GZ CRWLY, UPEV URXSC CLSSE ULEY GZ CLSEUEYL? Yesterday's Cryptoquip: "A Tale of Two Cities" is such an alarming work to read. It scared the Dickens out of me! Today's Cryptoquip Clue: equals I Sally Forth By Francesco Marciuliano, drawn by Craig Macin- YOU GUYS GONE Jgl CHRISTMAS SHOPPING FOR ME YET? THAT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL YOU GUYS GONE 1 pTREE YOU HAVE EVER 0 CHRISTMAS SHOPPIN6 FOR ME THUS ENDETH OUR MOMENT OF QUIET AWE. Conceptis SUDOKU By Dave Green Bridge 7 8 Tj I 9 9 8 2 2 5 9 3 7 2 6 1 3 I 8T6I 1 9" Difficulty Level (Out of) This deal features a play that might be easily missed by many players.
West leads the K-A and another spade against four hearts. East ruffs and returns a diamond, and South goes up with the ace, since the hidding and the diamond return both indicate that West has the king. Declarer now needs the rest of the tricks to make the contract. Obviously, he can't meet this goal unless he can somehow dispose of his diamond loser. One possible approach is to draw trumps and cash the A-K-0of clubs, hoping to find the opposing clubs divided 3-3.
In that case, the seven of clubs would become a trick on which declarer could discard dummy's queen of diamonds. If South adopted this line of play on the actual hand, he'd go down one after the clubs turned out to be divided 4-2. But if declarer follows a more promising line of play, he makes the contract. After taking the ace of diamonds, he plays five rounds of trumps, discarding a diamond from his hand on the last trump to reduce himself to four cards, all of them clubs. Dummy at this point consists of the queen of diamonds and A-Q-3 of clubs.
In the meantime, West also must reduce his hand to four cards, and therein lies the difference. When the last trump is led from dummy, West, who is down to the king of diamonds and J-10-9-6 of clubs, cannot find a satisfactory discard. Whatever he does, South makes the contract. Observe that it costs South nothing to play the hand this way. He still makes the contract if the clubs break 3-3, but also succeeds when West (or East) has four or more clubs and the king of diamonds.
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