Guess the Bid
by mark horton on
December 3rd, 2008
Do you recall the classic Marx Brothers movie A Night at the Opera?
It includes the following exchange between Groucho and Chico (along with Harpo keen bridge players):
Groucho: “That’s in every contract, that’s what you call a sanity clause.”
Chico: “You can’t a fool a me there ain’t no sanity clause”
Now try your hand at this simple quiz and you may begin to understand why I have mentioned it.
You have the following hand as West at game all:
| West | |
| ♠ | 10 8 6 5 |
| ♥ | A |
| ♦ | Q 10 6 3 |
| ♣ | K Q J 4 |
| West | North | East | South |
| 1♠ | Pass | 1NT* | |
| ? | |||
| *forcing |
Your mission, should you decide to accept is to guess what West decided to bid.
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Is Pass not the correct answer?
Ok, pass is usual, so it can’t be that.
I’m also reluctant to choose 2C, because that would have a semblance of logic (perhaps West considered this a pre-balancing situation). Ditto 2NT for minors.
At the university of Warwick we had an award called ‘the chimp’ which was given to bids with [flawed] logic at the time that turned out very wrong in their outcome. So for this ‘guess the bid’ I choose, 2H, a planned psyche, expecting to SOSXX out of it to a “guaranteed fit.” That, in my opinion is the worst bid that might have reasoning behind it that I can think of!
2D 🙂
And follow up with a 3C bid, if needed and available 🙂
Did I get this one right?
Pass is obvious…but what about 2NT for the minors…burying the opps probable heart fit…
I can’t believe you got it Shyam. I have heard so many people try it and you actually found his bid.
Kudos! I know I am giving away the answer but it has been a while now since the result was published in the next Blog.