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 Should You Lead Your Singleton? by Matthias Huberschwiller

In this quiz, you might like to lead your singleton.

Should you?

Good luck!

Question 1

  Your Hand
♠ 7
♥ 9 5 2
♦ Q J 10 5
♣ 9 6 4 3 2 		 
Q: 1 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1♥
Pass2♥Pass4♥
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: ♠7 - Lead your singleton Spade. It's a great way to try and make ruffs before declarer can draw trumps.

Your result so far:
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Question 2

  Your Hand
♠ J 7 4
♥ Q J 10 7
♦ 8
♣ J 10 9 6 2 		 
Q: 2 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1♥
Pass2♥Pass4♥
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: ♣J - This time, you don't want to take ruffs with two natural trump tricks; you would be ruffing with your own money.

Your result so far:
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Question 3

  Your Hand
♠ 5
♥ Q J 6 5
♦ A 7 4 2
♣ J 6 4 2 		 
Q: 3 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1 NT
Pass2♥Pass2♠
Pass3 NTPass4♠
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: ♥Q - Don't lead your singleton trump. That would help declarer to capture your partner's honor(s), and you wouldn't be able to ruff the second round!

Lead the highest of your Heart sequence; two cards are enough to form a sequence against a suit contract.

Your result so far:
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Question 4

  Your Hand
♠ 8 7 6 4
♥ J 6 5
♦ 9 8 7 5 3
♣ 7 		 
Q: 4 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
-1♦1♥1♠
Pass2♠Pass4♠
PassPassPass


 Your choice:
A: ♣7 - Even though your partner has bid Hearts, you need to lead your singleton Club. Your partner won't be mad, don't worry.

Your result so far:
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Question 5

  Your Hand
♠ A K 3 2
♥ 6
♦ 9 8 7 4 2
♣ Q 6 5 		 
Q: 5 - What do you lead as South?
SouthWestNorthEast
-1♣Pass1♠
Pass2♠PassPass
Pass


 Your choice:
A: ♥6 - Even though you hold the A K of trumps, you should lead your singleton. You want to try and make ruffs with the ♠2 and ♠3.

Don't lead the ♠A. You might lose a trick by crashing an honor in partner's hand.

Your result so far:
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