Author: Oren Lidor
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Seeing through cards #1
Knowing how to ask yourselves the right questions and then answer them is the key to improve your chances on any bridge hand, be it as declarer or as defender. I’ll give you a hand below, and a series of questions – like a riddle! Try to answer these questions by yourself. Then look at…
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A perfect Yarborough
Yarborough: A hand containing no card higher than a nine. Harold was bored. All evening he got terrible cards, he did not get to declare a single hand. His lovely partner tried to cheer him up: “Unlucky in cards means Lucky in love”, she said with an encouraging smile. Harold didn’t find that comforting. He was…
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The Monkey’s Paw
The Monkey’s Paw is a supernatural short story by author W.W. Jacobs. The story was also in a chapter of Tales from the Crypt, which featured horror stories with unexpected ending. The story presents a door to door salesman. A neighbor asks him what’s the strangest thing he brought from his trips abroad, and the…