"A curious hand", observed the Owl, "East-West made 6♥ and 6♠ at most tables except this one I was watching where Walter the Walrus, West, had over 30 points. His tea arrived and the hot tea-pot touched his hand just as he was bidding 6♥ and he dropped his entire hand face-up". He continued, "ChCh, South, bid 7NT and found a very disappointing dummy, but one that was good enough, as there was no defence".
How did the play go? And I think that this is a unique layout, as swapping any West card or cards with East would mean the contract could not be made. And thanks to nige1 for encouraging me to try for a unique layout, as in my favourite book, The Ultimate Limits.
Edit: Amended in light of smerriman's excellent comment and nige1's contribution
This post has been edited by lamford: 2019-February-23, 04:22
Lamford writes ' "A curious hand", observed the Owl, "East-West made 6♥ and 6♠ at most tables except this one I was watching where Walter the Walrus, West's tea arrived and the hot tea-pot touched his hand just as he was bidding 6♥ and he dropped his entire hand face-up". He continued, "ChCh, South, bid 7NT and found a very disappointing dummy, but one that was good enough, as there was no defence".
How did the play go? And I think that this is a unique layout, as swapping any West card or cards with East would mean the contract could not be made. And thanks to nige1 for encouraging me to try for a unique layout, as in my favourite book, The Ultimate Limits.'
A pretty squeeze!
SMerriman points out that you can swap LHO's ♣J with any of RHO's ♣s.
And mandate a small ♣ lead.