Legend:
Green
= Menace Card; Blue
= Idle Card;
Red
= Trump
Symmetric Saturated Squeeze
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All Double Threats Recessed
Triple-triple varieties
If each hand contains a recessed double threat, then each hand
must contain two entries in the suits of the single threats; either
each hand has two entries in its own single threat, or both single
threats are twin-entry threats.
1) Double entry threats:
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A 2
A K
9
3 2
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K J
K J
Q J
10
--
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Q 10
Q 10
--
Q J 10
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A 2
--
3 2
A K
9
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2) Twin-entry threats:
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A 2
A
9
3
A 2
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K J
K J
Q J
10
--
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Q 10
Q 10
--
Q J 10
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A 2
--
K 2
K
9
3
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In each case, South cashes the club A, squeezing a major suit
stopper from West. South uses the extra entry (if necessary) to cash
the spade A, on which North discards the now useless diamond threat.
Finally, the diamond winners squeeze East in clubs and the major
abandoned by West. Note that because of the exact symmetry of these
endings, South could just as well begin by cashing the second last
diamond winner, squeezing East first.
Triple-simple varieties
Each of the above positions has a triple-simple variant, in which
East's heart stopper is removed, along with the North-South diamond
winners (otherwise the position would reduce to a heart-diamond
squeeze against West). In the first case, a spade entry must be added
to the North hand, making the double threat blocked and recessed.
1) Double entry threat:
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K
A J
K
3 2
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J 9 7
K Q
A
--
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Q 10 8
--
--
Q J 10
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A 3
2
--
--
A K
9
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2) Twin-entry threat:
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--
A J
K
A 2
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K J
K Q
A
--
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Q 10
--
--
Q J 10
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A 2
--
--
K 9 3
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In each case, the club A squeezes a spade from West, and
subsequently the heart A squeezes East in clubs and spades.