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 Leading Against No-Trump Contracts by Matthias Huberschwiller

In this quiz, you will be leading against No-trump contracts.

Will you find the best lead?

Good luck!

Question 1

  Your Hand
♠ K 7 6 2
♥ J 10 6
♦ 9 6 2
♣ A 4 2 		 
Q: 1 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1 NT
Pass 3 NTPassPass
Pass


 Your choice:
A: ♠2 - Your best chance is to set up your Spades. You have too many points to lead for your partner.

Your result so far:
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Question 2

  Your Hand
♠ K 7 6 2
♥ J 10 6
♦ 9 6 2
♣ A 4 2 		 
Q: 2 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1 NT
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: ♥J - Yes, you have the same hand, but the sequence is different. This time, you will get on lead more often, and will have chances of setting up multiple suits.

Against 1NT, you should usually lead passively, a Heart here, and wait for your partner to play Spades from his side.

Your result so far:
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Question 3

  Your Hand
♠ K 9 6 2
♥ 8
♦ K Q 3
♣ Q 8 6 5 2 		 
Q: 3 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1 NT
Pass2♣Pass2♥
Pass3♣Pass3 NT
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: ♦Q - You can't lead a Club (dummy has shown five of them), nor a Spade (dummy has shown four of them). You need to lead a Diamond, but which card?

Don't lead the King. That would show a strong suit and ask partner to unblock. Lead the Queen, and he will signal if he's interested or not.

Your result so far:
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Question 4

  Your Hand
♠ K Q J 10 6
♥ A 6
♦ J 9 6 5
♣ 8 6 		 
Q: 4 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---3 NT*
PassPassPass


3 NT - Gambling - solid minor and nothing else.

 Your choice:
A: ♥A - Yes, you need to lead the Ace to get a look at dummy. As you will know declarer's hand, you will then be able to decide which suit to play next. If dummy has something like:

♠ A 5 2
♥ Q 7 3
♦ A 8 7 3 2
♣ 5 3

You will be happy to cash five Hearts before declarer can make his nine top tricks.

Your result so far:
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Question 5

  Your Hand
♠ Q 10 8 3
♥ Q 10 8 2
♦ Q 9 2
♣ A 6 		 
Q: 5 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1 NT
Pass2♣Pass2♠
Pass3 NTPassPass
Pass


 Your choice:
A: ♠3 - Which major is the best to lead? It's not dummy's suit because your tenace would then be underneath dummy's suit.

The suit in which your Q-10 tenace will be useful is declarer's Spades, because you will be playing after the long suit.

Your result so far:
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