Deal#5 in Learn to play bridge 2

[SiuHon]

If you have not installed these lessons from BBO, here is a condensed situation. Declarer is looking at 6NT with the diamond suit being A,Q,10,9,8,7. Dummy has 4,3,2 in diamonds. The other 3 suits look okay. The brief hint/solution says you can afford to lose one trick here in order to make the 6NT. I tried finesse and favourable distributions, but no luck. This is a robotic game/lesson; when you try finesse, it makes sure you lose. There must be a way of making it. Can you share your knowledge of how to handle this. Thanks!

[HighLow21]

If you have not installed these lessons from BBO, here is a condensed situation. Declarer is looking at 6NT with the diamond suit being A,Q,10,9,8,7. Dummy has 4,3,2 in diamonds. The other 3 suits look okay. The brief hint/solution says you can afford to lose one trick here in order to make the 6NT. I tried finesse and favourable distributions, but no luck. This is a robotic game/lesson; when you try finesse, it makes sure you lose. There must be a way of making it. Can you share your knowledge of how to handle this. Thanks!

As long as entries are OK the correct play is to play the Ace first. Then later lead low to the QT9. This helps you avoid a guess whenever the finesse loses the first time and it never loses relative to the double finesse since you have 9 cards to the AQT9.

[SiuHon]

As long as entries are OK the correct play is to play the Ace first. Then later lead low to the QT9. This helps you avoid a guess whenever the finesse loses the first time and it never loses relative to the double finesse since you have 9 cards to the AQT9.

Thank you very much, HighLow21! It worked and I will play that hand enough times for it to sink in and for me to remember all the time!