The course
Safety play
Step 1 of 4
Three tricks, guaranteed
Ace, jack, five, four in dummy; king, nine, six, two in your hand. The queen is missing and there is an obvious finesse — lead towards the jack and hope West has her.
You need three tricks, not four. There is a line that takes three against every layout of the missing five cards, including four to the queen sitting in the wrong hand. Find it.
Take 3 tricks.
Dummy
Lead from either hand.
Play a card from either hand. Play the line you would play — nothing here is scored, and you can start the suit again whenever you like.