[jchiu]

I was cleaning my desk today, and found a few bridge problems on one yellowed sheet of paper

1.

Scoring: IMP

1♦ - 1♥
1♠ - 2♣
3♦ - 4♣
4♦ - 4♠
???

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2.

Scoring: IMP

1♠ 2♥ 3♦ Pass
3♠ Pass 4♣ Pass
4♥ Pass 4♠ Pass
5♣ All Pass

West leads the ♥ A, on which East encourages.
West continues with the ♥ K, plan the play.

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3.

Scoring: IMP

1♠ 2♥ 3♦ Pass
3♠ Pass 4♣ Pass
4♥ Pass 4♠ Pass
5♣ All Pass

West leads the ♥ A, on which East encourages.
West continues with the ♥ K, plan the play.

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4.

Scoring: IMP

1♦ - 1♥
1♠ - 2♣
3♦ - 4♣
4♦ - 4♠
???

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5.

Scoring: IMP

1♦ - 1♥
1♠ - 2♣
3♦ - 4♣
4♦ - 4♠
???

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[Codo]

1. PD promised 5 Hearts 5 Clubs, some points and more spades then Diamonds.
Looks like an ugly misfit. :-)
I prefer 5 Diaomnd . Despite my strong hand, I doubt that we will reach any makable contract and 5 Diamond is the best guess.

2. I ruff and let the diamond jack run.

3. a Spade trying to establish the suit for discards.

4. X, the xx in Diamonds makes me fear, that 5 Spade may not work here. But I don´t see, how they can get 4 tricks outside diamonds. so I X with confidence.
And yes I absolute agree with the Double of 4 NT.

5. pass and Q of Spade.

[whereagles]

1. Hum.. looks like responder misbid, but ok. I'm going to bid 5♦ now, on pard's void, hoping to lose 2 diams or 1 diam and 1 club. Seems safer than being heart-forced in 4♠.. lol.

2. Ruff and run the ♦J. If it holds, back to hand on a trump and lead a diamond to the ace. If it loses, ruff heart, draw trump and you can probably claim at that stage.

3. Setup spades, wtp?

4. I take it pard would have doubled with a doubleton diamond. Since I don't think we can set this more than 2, I'll try my luck in 5♠, albeit with trepidation. Dbl of 4NT is ok.

5. Seems like pard has spades locked up. Pass and lead ♠Q.

Easy set.. lol.

[Apollo81]

1) pass; there are probably more options in 4♠ than in 5♦ opposite a void.

4) Dbl 4NT then 5♠, as partner is unlikely to hold more than one diamond for his pass of 5♦.