Aha: You can skip the lengthy explanation below of how I got there and just go to
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dOzg3D7xVyud2SHHXN0KpP__bib-nNOL/edit


Tech things often present challenges. I was able to overcome the challenge  and I will describe my solution.

Here is the link from above:
https://tinyurl.com/mrycy7fz
There are three ways for me to open such a link but they all lead to the same result.
The three ways are to
click on it in your message,
copy it and insert it in google and open it,
or, after inserting it in google,  a highlighted form appears and I can click on that.
These all open up at the URL:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U4ubDgm611WikH_f6FLeJTKrdhmD_EeK

Ok, this might be the start of the issue. The URL that opens begins "drive.google" rather than "tinyurl".

But of course something is open so can I work with that? yep, but it wasn't easy.

What I see in front of me after https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1U4ubDgm611WikH_f6FLeJTKrdhmD_EeK opens is the word "Folders" and beneath "folders" I see "2022.02" and "2022.04"

Over on a side panel there is stuff about "owner" and "who has access".
So I click on "2022.04" in the main panel.
Nothing opens immediately but the side panel changes.

I now go to the side panel and click on "2204.04".

This brings up, in the main panel, icons for 10 documents, a mix of pdf, word and x (I have no idea what an x document is).

I click on the one called "Challenge2..." It's a word document.

It opens, although I can only see part of it, in the side panel.

So I go over to the side panel and click on it, the part of "Challenge..." that I see, and it opens full size.

Now I would like to have it easily available in the future so I hope to save it. I go over to "file", find "download, and click on "download". It gives me downloading options including "'pdf" and '.word". I like the pdf format so I click on that.

A pdf file is created, I find the option to "download", and click on it. It downloads, unopened.

I open the downloaded pdf file.

Open pdf files can be saved to my desktop so I do that.

And now it is right there whenever I wish to open it.


Thoughts: Tech things are usually easy providing you know what you are supposed to do and near to impossible if you do not know what you are to do. Very very possibly there is a much simpler way to get to the file, but the above approach is the only way that I found.

In 1954 I bought a 1947 Plymouth for $175 that not surprisingly needed work. So I figured it out. But a wrench gets applied to a bolt, pretty obvious. Not quite so obvious with tech.

Having played the hands, it's tough to look at this abstractly. But a thought or two.

Surely E has the A on the auction. So if he has a stiff it's the A. So I think I would start by winning the A at T1 (of course) and then leading a small from the board. If E produces a non-ace then probably, or hopefully spades are 3-2  and, since I agree that the non-1NT opening by acol suggests some shape, you tread carefully with the suit. And of course you can hope E we dealt the A doubleton, in which case you could hold the trump losers to 1. If the A flies at T2, then very likely W held 4 and you will be losing 2 tricks. Meaning the losers have to be held to 1. But if indeed are 4-1 then there is a better chance that are 3-2. E has shape but he doesn't have to have 2 stiffs.

That's my thinking, trying to put aside what I know of the actual layout.

Added: If are 4-1 then when E wins his A he has to lead something. This could help. Say he leads a . One route to 10 tricks could be: The A, 2 ruffs in hand, 2 top !Ds, 3 tricks, and the K,Q. That's if the A flies. If not, then we play for trump to be 3-2 with various options.

Further add-on: I sometimes amuse myself by giving hands to the robots. I do not claim  robots are experts, and of course they do not know EW are playing acol.
Left to themselves, they reached 4 on the auction
1 - X - Pass - 2
Pass - 4

The opening lead was the stiff and the robot declarer took 11 tricks.

So I revised it. I left the auction alone but I insisted that the robot defender lead the K at T1. The robot declarer took it and led a small , E ducked, the K won, he took 10 tricks.
Proves nothing but it's what the robots did.

As mentioned, Donna's hands can be useful.

Now: If you had bid 2 , undiscussed, would I have taken it as fit showing? Well, maybe. Sort of a what the hell else situation. You could have opened 2 if you had six spades and, say, two hearts. And if you had only five spades why on Earth would you want to bid 2 unless you also had a heart fit to fall back on? So spades and a heart fit makes sense.

So maybe I could work it out.
Don't bet the house on it.

Should it require that you have four hearts to go with your five spades? Oh, I don't know. It should be a hand where 3 is a reasonable contract when I don't fit spades.

It's something of a magic hand. Probably it makes 4 more often than not, but maybe not with a lot of room to spare.

PROBLEM A: 4 Clubs             100
PROBLEM B: 1 Spade             10
PROBLEM C: Double             100
PROBLEM D: 3 Hearts             90       
PROBLEM E: 3 Hearts             90
PROBLEM F: 3 Clubs               90
PROBLEM G: 6 Spades          100
PROBLEM H: Heart 6              100

                                             680

Except fpr B the panel did a good job of scoring this month.

SOLVER: Ken Berg
 
Your Solutions for the May 2022 Contest
-------------------
PROBLEM A: 4 Clubs
PROBLEM B: 1 Spade
PROBLEM C: Double
PROBLEM D: 3 Hearts
PROBLEM E: 3 Hearts
PROBLEM F: 3 Clubs
PROBLEM G: 6 Spades
PROBLEM H: Heart 6

What's done is done.

Drury is played in different ways.
Bridge World Standard, for responses after a third or fourth hand opening bid of 1 or 1 , says

Passed-Hand Situations: These methods apply to responding to a major-suit opening by a passed hand:
(a) one notrump is semiforcing (6-12 points);
(b) two clubs is a strong raise (a hand too strong for a single raise, but unsuited to a higher bid);
(c) three clubs is natural, similar to two diamonds but with long clubs;
(d) a jump-shift other than three clubs is a strong raise with length in the suit bid;
(e) a double jump-shift is a splinter raise.

So 2 is Drury, 2 is not Drury.

We also have to decide when Drury is on. Say we open 1 in third position and fourth hand enters the auction. My own preference is that if 2 is available as a bid then 2 is Drury. I am not sure what BWS says about that.


Anyway, here is a hand:


  Q5
  KJT73
  K96
  A84

Matchpoints, nobody vul, three passes to you, you open 1 .

Opponents stay out of the auction


Pass     1
2      2
2      2NT
3

What now? The 2 shows a full opener, or, as I like to think of it, a hand where it seems at least possible that we should be in 4 .
I was playing with robots so they told me that 2 showed at least three spades headed by the Q or better.
I intended my 2NT as passable, I think that is reasonable, but the bots claim it is forcing to 3 .
And the bots tell me 3 shows at least 3 diamonds headed by at least the Q.

Ok, maybe the bots and I were not on exactly the same page. The way I see it, the bot could have bid 3 , so bidding 3 should be a hand with a little more than a minimum 2 call.

So should I bid 3 or 4 ?

Part of my reason for posting is so others can comment on whether they think 3 should be more encouraging than 3 .

Well, I bid 4 . I made 4 . But it required a bit of luck.

  A864
  854
  AQT7
  97


  Q5
  KJT73
  K96
  A84

So: Did we overbid? And if so, who?

It seems useful to have some hands where it is maybe not certain whether or not we belong in game and discuss what to make out of the Drury bid and the follow-up.

 

Yes, and even at matchpoints it is often right to try to bring in a slam contract even if that could lead to an extra undertrick. Some will have stopped in 4 , it is not all that great a slam. If the contract goes down you lose the same amount to them whether you are down 1 or down 2, but if you bring the contract home you are beating them.