Here’s a recent hand to once again illustrate the NOF concept.
Dealer: Vul: |
North ♠ KJ75 ♥ K73 ♦ 72 ♣ AK107 |
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West ♠ Q962 ♥ QJ2 ♦ K ♣ 96542 |
East ♠ A1083 ♥ 9865 ♦ 853 ♣ Q8 |
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South ♠ 4 ♥ A104 ♦ AQJ10964 ♣ J3 |
Due to some “creative” bidding, N/S managed to get to a 6♦ contract. Looking at just the N/S hands, in order to make the hand, Q♣ AND K♦ must be on side – about a 25% chance (NOT a good slam.) As you can see, neither card is in the right place.
West led 9♣ (top of nothing.) With that lead, it’s obvious that Q♣ is off-side, so declarer played A♣.
Next, declarer led a small diamond from dummy, but rather than finessing K♦, played A♦, dropping the singleton K♦!
After drawing three round of trump, leaving no trump on dummy to ruff a losing heart, declarer then played their last club to K♣, dropping East’s Q♣, setting up 10♣ to pitch their losing heart. Hand made!
If this isn’t an NOF, we don’t know what is.
The names of the perpetrators and victims have been suppressed to avoid bloodshed.