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Mystery #2

More Than Meets The Eye


   The problem in Mystery #2 was announced in The Bridge Journal in 1965.

   Question 2: Can you give any interpretation of the notation, fully reproduced below (from a literal scrap of paper discovered by Jeff Rubens when he cleaned out a file--it was in his own "handwriting"), to take all the essential points into account.

"More than meets the eye.
 NORTH
S x x x
H K x x
D K 10 x x x
C A x
 
SOUTH
S K Q J 10
H A x x
D x x
C x x x x

Rubber bridge. Neither side vulnerable. Each side 60 on score.

SOUTHWESTNORTHEAST
 --1 C1 DPass
1 SPass2 SPass
PassPass

   Trump led. Duck diamond when queen appears (because trump entry used at key time). Note best defense."

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